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4 wins & 15 nominations.
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(1949)
(1968)
(1948)
(1965)
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Filmography
1934
Java Head
(assistant director - uncredited)
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Actor (3 credits)
1949
The Third Man
Opening Narrator - UK Version
(voice, uncredited)
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Self (7 credits)
1969
Omnibus
(TV Series documentary)
Himself - Interviewee
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Personal Details
Other Works:
stage:
spear carrier in George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" with Sybil Thorndike and a young Laurence Olivier
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Publicity Listings:
3 Print Biographies
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Alternate Names:
Sir Carol Reed
Height:
6' 2" (1.88 m)
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Personal Quote:
It's dull to stick to the same sort of subject and bad for one's work into the bargain. Repetition makes a director grow stale in his job, and lose his grip as an entertainer. I happen to love a dark street, with wet cobbles, and a small furtive figure under a lamp at the corner. Whenever I go on location, I instinctively look for something of that kind. Now that is bad; thoroughly bad for me, ...
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Trademark:
Children figure significantly in his films (The Fallen Idol (1948) told through a child's point of view, Boy with ball in The Third Man (1949), protagonists in
Oliver! (1968) are children; children are everywhere & see everything in
Odd Man Out (1947))
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