1. Digby Rumsey was born on 2 April 1952 and is an English film director, producer, writer, cinematographer, editor, sound recordist and film diarist.
13 Facts About Digby Rumsey
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Digby Rumsey was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire before training at the London Film School.
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Digby Rumsey subsequently gained an MA in Independent Film at the London College of Printing.
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Digby Rumsey initially worked as an actor at the Quipu Basement Theatre in Greek Street, but after film school, he gained industry experience as an assistant editor and sound recordist.
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In 1972 Digby Rumsey set up Fantasy Films and over the following two decades specialised in adapting the work of Victorian and Edwardian fantasy writers such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Ernest Bramah and Lord Dunsany.
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In 2000 Digby Rumsey set up Auteur DVD, a Soho-based authoring house.
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On his return from India, Digby Rumsey was diagnosed with an aggressive prostate cancer.
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Digby Rumsey was a member of Directors UK and for many years an active Trade Union member on the Writers, Producers and Directors committee of BECTU.
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Digby Rumsey represented the Union on the Working Group on Copyright and Technology for the British Copyright Council.
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Digby Rumsey adapted three works by the prolific Irish writer, dramatist and poet Lord Dunsany.
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Digby Rumsey made two films inspired by the work of English author Ernest Bramah : The Moonlight Comb shows the film-maker taking five colleagues, costumes and props, to the rugged landscape of Wester Ross in Scotland.
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In Out of Reach, Digby Rumsey told the tale of a sad and lonely young poet who wishes to emulate his hero Thomas Chatterton.
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Digby Rumsey was again one of the sound recordists on Peter Greenaway's 1980 feature The Falls and Greenaway would subsequently co-edit Digby Rumsey's 1981 drama The Pledge, for which Michael Nyman composed the score.