Harry Watt
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- October 18, 1906, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Died
- April 2, 1987
- Movies
- 30
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 Movies
Filmography
| 1986 | Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios | Interviewee |
| 1978 | How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran | Self |
| 1938 | Wealth of a Nation | Commentator |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1961 | The Boy Who Loved Horses | Director, Writer |
| 1961 | Vidunderhunden Bara | Director, Writer |
| 1959 | The Siege of Pinchgut | Director, Screenplay |
| 1954 | West of Zanzibar | Director |
| 1951 | Where No Vultures Fly | Director |
| 1949 | Eureka Stockade | Director, Screenplay |
| 1946 | The Overlanders | Director, Writer |
| 1944 | Fiddlers Three | Director |
| 1944 | For Those in Peril | Screenplay |
| 1943 | Nine Men | Director, Writer |
| 1943 | Save Your Shillings and Smile | Director |
| 1942 | Twenty-One Miles | Director |
| 1941 | Target for Tonight | Director |
| 1940 | Christmas Under Fire | Director |
| 1940 | London Can Take It! | Director |
| 1940 | Britain at Bay | Director |
| 1940 | The Story of an Air Communiqué | Producer |
| 1940 | Squadron 992 | Director |
| 1940 | The Front Line | Director |
| 1940 | Health in War | Producer |
| 1939 | The First Days | Director |
| 1938 | Night Mail | Director, Producer |
| 1938 | North Sea | Director, Writer |
| 1937 | Big Money | Director |
| 1936 | The Saving of Bill Blewitt | Director |
| 1935 | Droitwich: The World's Most Modern Long Wave Transmitter | Director |
| 1934 | 6.30 Collection | Director |
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