Harry Watt

Biography

Raymond Egerton Harry Watt (18 October 1906 – 2 April 1987) was a Scottish documentary and feature film director, who began his career working for John Grierson and Robert Flaherty. His 1959 film The Siege of Pinchgut was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of the Scottish Liberal MP Harry Watt. He studied at Edinburgh University but failed to complete his degree. He enlisted in the Merchant Navy and worked in a number of industrial jobs.

Directed

1. Night Mail (1936) — Director
2. London Can Take It! (1940) — Director
3. The Overlanders (1946) — Director
4. Target for Tonight (1941) — Director
5. Eureka Stockade (1949) — Director
6. The Siege of Pinchgut (1959) — Director
7. Nine Men (1943) — Director
8. North Sea (1938) — Director
9. Christmas Under Fire (1940) — Director
10. Fiddlers Three (1944) — Director
11. Where No Vultures Fly (1951) — Director
12. West of Zanzibar (1954) — Director
13. The First Days (1939) — Director
14. Twenty-One Miles (1942) — Director
15. Squadron 992 (1940) — Director
16. The Boy Who Loved Horses (1961) — Director
17. Vidunderhunden Bara (1961) — Director
18. The Front Line (1940) — Director
19. 6.30 Collection (1934) — Director
20. Britain at Bay (1940) — Director
21. The Saving of Bill Blewitt (1936) — Director
22. Save Your Shillings and Smile (1943) — Director
23. Big Money (1937) — Director
24. Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter (1935) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Film '72 (1971) — Self
2. Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios (1986) — Interviewee
3. Wealth of a Nation (1938) — Commentator
4. How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1978) — Self