Director
Harry Watt
120 years · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · 27 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 27
Cavalcanti
2026 · Self (archive footage)
Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
1986 · Interviewee
How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran
1978 · Self
On Kanopy
The Boy Who Loved Horses
1961 · Director, Writer
Vidunderhunden Bara
1961 · Director, Writer
The Siege of Pinchgut
1959 · Director, Screenplay
West of Zanzibar
1954 · Director
Where No Vultures Fly
1951 · Director
Eureka Stockade
1949 · Director, Screenplay
The Overlanders
1946 · Writer, Director
Fiddlers Three
1944 · Director
For Those in Peril
1944 · Screenplay
Nine Men
1943 · Director, Writer
Save Your Shillings and Smile
1943 · Director
Twenty-One Miles
1942 · Director
Target for Tonight
1941 · Director
On Plex
Christmas Under Fire
1940 · Director
London Can Take It!
1940 · Director
On OVID
Britain at Bay
1940 · Director
Squadron 992
1940 · Director
Health in War
1940 · Producer
The First Days
1939 · Director
Night Mail
1938 · Director, Producer
On OVID
Wealth of a Nation
1938 · Commentator