Desmond Davis
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Desmond Davis (born May 24, 1926, London, England) is a British film and television director.
After serving a long apprenticeship as a clapper boy in the 1940s, with Britain's Army Film Unit, Davis worked as a camera operator on such notable films as A Taste of Honey, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Freud and Tom Jones. He made his directorial debut in 1964 with Girl with Green Eyes, and reunited his two female stars from that film, Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave, in Smashing Time (1967), a comedy. He won the Golden Shell in 1966 for I Was Happy Here. In the 1970s Davis took a long hiatus from film directing, but directed TV series, including episodes of Follyfoot and The New Avengers, and Measure for Measure in the BBC Television Shakespeare series. Davis returned to film directing in 1981 with Clash of the Titans, and made Camille in 1984. Davis has worked exclusively in television since the mid-1980s, including The Sign of the Four (1983) and Ordeal by Innocence (1984).
