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Michael Reed is a Director of Photography and Cinematography Canadien born on 7 july 1929
Michael Reed BSC (born 1929) is a British cinematographer who worked on several films in the 1960s and 1970s, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Shout at the Devil. After working on television series such as The Saint and a number of B movies, Reed graduated to big scale film-making with the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.
(1965)
(Second Unit Director of Photography)
(1969)
(Director of Photography)
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(1965)(Second Unit Director of Photography)
(1969)(Director of Photography)
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Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Peter Howell, Robert James, Noel Howlett, Malcolm Terris, Derek Ware
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
Kim (1984)
Directed by John Howard Davies
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Spy films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Bryan Brown, John Rhys-Davies, Florence Ezekiel Nadira, Julian Glover, Lee Montague
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
Kim (Ravi Sheth) is a 13-year-old street orphan in Lahore of the 19th century (1894). Kim thinks he is native, but he's actually of British origin, the son of an Irish soldier and an unknown mother (unlike the novel on which it is based, Kim's mother is not portrayed as Irish, but it is made clear that Kim is white). Kim is hired as a guide by a travelling Tibetan lama (Peter O'Toole) on a search for a river where Budda hurled an arrow, turning it into a place of redemption. When he finds his father's regiment and the British military discover his origins and his real name, Kimball O'Hara, he's placed in an English college. His nature, however, is opposed to the regimentation expected for the son of a British soldier, and he rebels. His familiarity with Indian life and his ability to pass as an Indian child allows him to function as a spy for the British as they attempt to thwart revolution and invasion of India. Rejoining his holy man, Kim is trained by an Englishman called Babu (John Rhys Davies) to become a British spy and receives orders from a British Colonel (Julian Glover) who assigns him a risky mission in the Big Game, the behind-the-scenes struggle between Imperial Britain and Russia for supremacy in Afghanistan and Central Asia. He also befriends an astute Afghan horse-dealer named Mahbub Ali (Bryan Brown), a British Secret Service agent, who helps him with his task.
Loophole (1981)
, 1h45Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Albert Finney, Martin Sheen, Susannah York, Jonathan Pryce, Colin Blakely, Robert Morley
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Stephen Booker, jeune architecte de son État, se retrouve au chômage suite à la fermeture du cabinet dont il était associé. Alors qu'il est désespéré et surendetté, il est engagé par un certain Mike Daniels pour faire surélever un immeuble. Mais Booker apprend vite que ce projet est une couverture et que Daniels est en fait un escroc qui prépare un casse...
Leopard in the Snow (1979)
, 1h34Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Keir Dullea, Susan Penhaligon, Kenneth More, Billie Whitelaw, Gordon Thomson, Jeremy Kemp
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
The Passage (1979)
, 1h39Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Sports films, Political films
Actors Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Patricia Neal, Christopher Lee, Kay Lenz
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
During World War II, a Basque farmer (Anthony Quinn) is asked by the French resistance to help a fleeing scientist (James Mason) and his family escape across the Pyrenees Mountains to safety in neutral Spain. On his trail are a group of Germans, led by a sadistic SS officer (Malcolm McDowell).
The Stick Up (1977)
Directed by Jeffrey Bloom
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors David Soul, Michael Balfour, Alan Tilvern, Johnnie Wade, Liz Smith, Norman Jones
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56%
Shout at the Devil (1976)
, 2h4Directed by John Glen, Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Ian Holm, Barbara Parkins, Reinhard Kolldehoff, George Coulouris
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Colonel Flynn O'Flynn (Lee Marvin), a hard-drinking American, manipulates British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith (Roger Moore) into helping poach ivory in Tanganyika, which is part of the German-controlled pre-World War I territory of German East Africa. On hearing news that the American has returned, Herman Fleischer, the local German Commander of the Southern Provinces, relentlessly hunts O'Flynn with his Schutztruppen.
Galileo (1975)
, 2h25Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Chaim Topol, Edward Fox, Georgia Brown, John Gielgud, Tom Conti, Margaret Leighton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
The film closely follows the "American" version of Brecht's play Galileo. In 1609 Galileo is a mathematics professor in Padua, Italy. While his salary is inadequate, he possesses the freedom to pursue controversial scientific studies under the protection of the Venetian republic. Part of his work involves the use of a telescope, a relatively new scientific instrument brought from the Netherlands. Using the telescope, Galileo seeks to test the theories put forth by Nicolaus Copernicus that place the sun – and not the Earth – at the center of universe. As his research progress, Galileo accepts a more prestigious academic position in Florence, Italy. But his new position does not come with the government protection he enjoyed in Venice, and his friends in the higher echelons of the Roman Catholic Church refuse to come to his aid when he is summoned before the Inquisition.
The Hireling (1973)
, 1h48Directed by Alan Bridges
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles, Peter Egan, Caroline Mortimer, Elizabeth Sellars, Alison Leggatt
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
Set in and around Bath, Somerset, immediately after the First World War, the story opens at an expensive mental clinic in the country where the young and recently widowed Lady Franklin is being discharged. The owner of a smart hire car, former sergeant-major Ledbetter, chauffeurs her to her unsympathetic mother in Bath. Hired to take her on outings, he becomes the only person she can talk to as she slowly lifts out of deep depression.
The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972)
, 1h43Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford, Cliff Potts, James Olson, Tim O'Connor
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Employee John David Welles attempts to steal rocket booster plans from the Groundstar facility. His attempt goes awry and he is badly disfigured in an explosion and barely escapes. He stumbles to the home of Nicole Devon, and collapses. She calls an ambulance, the authorities are alerted, and soon Welles is operated on, given plastic surgery and interrogated by a gung-ho government official named Tuxan. But Welles claims to have no memory of his crime. In fact, he claims no memory of his life at all, save for brief glimpses of a woman and small boy frolicking on a beach.
Z.P.G. (1972)
, 1h37Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Oliver Reed, Geraldine Chaplin, Don Gordon, Diane Cilento, Birgitte Federspiel, Bent Christensen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56%
Set in the future, the Earth has become severely polluted (people need to wear breathing masks when outside) with severe overpopulation affecting available resources. Because of the permanent thick smog that has settled over the dismal cities that now cover the Earth’s entire surface, all animals – even common household pets - are extinct; people eat tasteless bright-colored paste out of plastic containers. To reduce the world's population, the world's government decrees that no children may be conceived for the next 30 years. Breaking this law will result in a death penalty for both the parents as well as the newborn. Brainwashing and robot substitutes are used to end the yearning for children with the death penalty as the ultimate deterrent, by being placed under a plastic dome and suffocated to death. Couples of child-bearing age visit "Babyland" and are given life-size animatronic children instead.
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
, 1h37Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors John Phillip Law, Don Stroud, Barry Primus, Corin Redgrave, Hurd Hatfield, Stephen McHattie
Roles Camera Operator
Rating60%
Manfred von Richthofen (John Phillip Law) is a German cavalry officer newly assigned to an air squadron under the command of Oswald Boelcke (Peter Masterson) who quickly becomes an ace. His career is presented on screen intercut with scenes of another pilot across the lines, a Canadian pilot named Roy Brown (Don Stroud) who arrives at a British squadron, where the commanding pilot is a Victoria Cross holder named Lanoe Hawker (Corin Redgrave).
The McKenzie Break (1970)
, 1h42Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Prison films, Political films, Évasion
Actors Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, Jack Watson, Horst Janson, Patrick O'Connell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
At a Prisoner of War (POW) camp for Germans in the north of Scotland, Kapitän zur See Willi Schlüter (Helmut Griem) - a German submariner – challenges the authority of the camp’s embattled Commanding Officer, Major Perry (Ian Hendry). British Army Captain Jack Connor arrives to investigate what's happening at the McKenzie POW Camp.
Guns in the Heather (1969)
, 3hDirected by Robert Butler
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Glenn Corbett, Alfred Burke, Kurt Russell, Patrick Barr, Hugh McDermott, Eddie Byrne
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
, 2h16Directed by Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Romance
Themes Films about children, Spy films, Christmas films, Sports films, Films about terrorism
Actors George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Bernard Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lois Maxwell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
In Portugal, James Bond – agent 007, sometimes referred to simply as '007' – saves a woman on the beach from committing suicide by drowning, and later meets her again in a casino. The woman, Contessa Teresa "Tracy" di Vicenzo, invites Bond to her hotel room to thank him. The next morning, Bond is kidnapped by several men while leaving the hotel, who take him to meet Marc-Ange Draco, the head of the European crime syndicate Unione Corse. Draco reveals that Tracy is his only daughter and tells Bond of her troubled past, offering Bond a personal dowry of one million pounds if he will marry her. Bond refuses, but agrees to continue romancing Tracy under the agreement that Draco reveals the whereabouts of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE.