Arthur Crabtree was a British cinematographer and film director.
23 Facts About Arthur Crabtree
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Arthur Crabtree directed films with comedians such as Will Hay, the Crazy Gang and Arthur Askey and several of the Gainsborough melodramas.
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Arthur Crabtree shot Out of the Blue with Jessie Matthews; Verdict of the Sea ; and The Maid of the Mountains.
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Arthur Crabtree did some films for Michael Powell, Lazybones and The Love Test.
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Arthur Crabtree was a camera operator on First a Girl.
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Arthur Crabtree worked on The First Offence with John Mills; Pot Luck with Tom Walls and Ralph Lynn; Everybody Dance with Cicely Courtneidge; and All In with Lynn for director Marcel Varnel.
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Arthur Crabtree shot Bank Holiday for director Carol Reed starring Margaret Lockwood.
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Arthur Crabtree did some photography work on Neutral Port.
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Arthur Crabtree shot For Freedom with Will Fyffe; Charley's Aunt with Askey; and Neutral Port with Fyffe.
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Arthur Crabtree did a short for director Anthony Asquith, Channel Incident and one for Herbert Mason, Mr Proudfoot Shows a Light.
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Back at Gainsborough, Arthur Crabtree shot I Thank You with Askey.
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Arthur Crabtree did another with Formby at Columbia Pictures, Much Too Shy, then went back to Gainbsorough for King Arthur Was a Gentleman with Askey.
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Arthur Crabtree was cinematographer on Gainsborough's The Man in Grey, a box-office hit which started the Gainsborough melodrama cycle and made stars of James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger.
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Arthur Crabtree shot a comedy with Lockwood, Dear Octopus, then did another melodrama, Fanny by Gaslight, directed by Asquith and starring Calvert, Granger and Mason, another huge success.
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Arthur Crabtree followed this with Waterloo Road starring Granger and John Mills, directed by Sidney Gilliat.
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Arthur Crabtree had filmed some of Gainsborough's biggest successes and the studio promoted him to director for Madonna of the Seven Moons with Calvert and Granger.
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Arthur Crabtree was a very good cinematographer, but there weren't enough directors, and so people who were scriptwriters or were behind the camera were suddenly made directors.
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Arthur Crabtree directed a thriller with Eric Portman and Greta Gynt, Dear Murderer.
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Arthur Crabtree followed this with The Calendar, with Gynt, and was one of the directors on Quartet.
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Arthur Crabtree directed Don't Ever Leave Me, a comedy, then Lilli Marlene, a war film.
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Arthur Crabtree made Hindle Wakes, The Wedding of Lilli Marlene and Stryker of the Yard.
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Arthur Crabtree made Morning Call, then did West of Suez for producer Richard Gordon starring Keefe Brasselle.
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Arthur Crabtree made Death Over My Shoulder with Brasselle, then did another for Gordon, Fiend Without a Face.