IEC
#1: 1984
#2: 1982
DICK BUSH
Born: 24 June 1931, Devonport, Devon, UK, as Richard Henry Bush.
Died: 4 August 1997, West Devon, UK.
Education: Plymouth Art College.
Career: Served as an officer in the Royal Military Police. He later worked at a variety of jobs with Fry's Chocolate and Clarks, a shoe manufacturing business, where he began producing promotional films. His initial film experience at the shoe company enabled him to land a job with the BBC, where he became part of the early 'outside broadcast' tv production and film team.
Was a member of the BSC since 1968.
Awards: BAFTA TV Award 'Individual Honour' [1967]; BAFTA Film Award nom [1979] for 'Yanks'; BSC Award nom [1982] for 'Victor Victoria'; 'Gemini' Award nom [1996] for 'The Man in the Attic'.
| FILMS | |
|---|---|
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1968 |
Laughter in the Dark [Tony Richardson] c |
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1968 |
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth [Val Guest] c; 2uc: Johnny Cabrera; vfx ph: Jim Danforth |
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1969 |
Take a Girl Like You [Jonathan Miller] c |
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1969 |
All the Way Up [James MacTaggart] c |
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1970 |
Toomorrow [Val Guest] p/c |
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1970 |
Blood on Satan's Claw/Satan's Skin [Piers Haggard] c |
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1971 |
Marine Safety: Don't Go Down the... [Leonard Lewis] c; comm doc/15m; for Shell |
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1971 |
Marine Safety: Mistaken Identity [Leonard Lewis] c; comm doc/16m; for Shell |
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1971 |
Twins of Evil/Twins of Dracula/The Evil Twins [John Hough] c; 2uc (+ sfx ph): Jack Mills |
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1971 |
Dracula A.D. 1972 [Alan Gibson] c |
[Left] with Ken Russell - focus Eddie Collins - c.op Ronnie Taylor
"Savage Messiah"
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1972 |
Savage Messiah [Ken Russell] c |
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1972 |
Our Miss Fred/Operation: Fred/Beyond the Call of Duty [Bob Kellett] c |
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1973 |
Phase IV/Phase Four [Saul Bass] c; 2uc: Jack Mills; spec ant ph: Ken Middleham |
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1973 |
Mahler [Ken Russell] c |
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1974 |
Tommy/Tommy by 'The Who' [Ken Russell] c; cph: Ronnie Taylor; spec material ph: Robin Lehman |
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1974 |
In Celebration [Lindsay Anderson] c |
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1976 |
Engineering - North Sea [Robin Jackson] 16mm/c; doc/28m; cph: Alan Fabian, Nobby Smith & Alfred Hicks; prod Shell Film Unit |
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1976 |
Sorcerer/Wages of Fear [William Friedkin] c; cph: John M. Stephens |
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1977 |
The Hound of the Baskervilles [Paul Morrissey] tvi/c; cph: John Wilcox |
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1978 |
The Legacy [Richard Marquand] c; cph: Alan Hume; uwph: Michael Gemmell |
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1978 |
Yanks [John Schlesinger] c |
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1979 |
Falling in Love Again/In Love [Steven Paul] c; left prod during shooting; cph: Michael John Mileham & Wolf Suschitzky; addph: Daryn Okada |
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1979 |
One Trick Pony [Robert M. Young] c |
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1979 |
Silver Dream Racer [David Wickes] announced as doph, but film was ph by Paul Beeson in 1980 |
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1980 |
The Fan [Edward Bianchi] c; collab doph: Leon Perera |
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1981 |
Victor Victoria [Blake Edwards] p/c; replaced doph Ernest Day; spec vfx: Albert Whitlock |
[Left] with c.op John Harris and focus David Wynn-Jones
"Trail of the Pink Panther"
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1982 |
Trail of the Pink Panther [Blake Edwards] p/c; 2uc: Robin Browne |
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1982 |
Curse of the Pink Panther [Blake Edwards] p/c; 2uc: Derek Browne & Robin Browne |
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1983 |
The Philadelphia Experiment [Stewart Raffill] c; vfx ph: Jonathan Seay |
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1984 |
Crimes of Passion/China Blue [Ken Russell] c |
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1985 |
The Journey of Natty Gann [Jeremy Paul Kagan] p/c |
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1985 |
Aliens [James Cameron] started film, but was replaced after a couple of weeks into the shoot by ph Adrian Biddle |
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1987 |
Staying Together [Lee Grant] c |
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1988 |
The Lair of the White Worm [Ken Russell] c; addph: Robin Browne |
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1988 |
Little Monsters [Richard Alan Greenberg] c |
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1990 |
Switch [Blake Edwards] p/c |
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1992 |
Son of the Pink Panther [Blake Edwards] p/c; main title seq ph: Adam Greenberg; optical ph: Alan Church |
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1993 |
Raging Earth/Tortured Earth [Vic Armstrong] announced for November start; status unknown |
| TELEVISION [for BBC-tv until 1978] | |
|---|---|
|
1960 |
The House with the Green Shutters [prod: Pharic Maclaren] tvm/b&w/90m; ep drama anthology series 'Saturday Playhouse', 1958-61 (1961) |
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1961 |
In a City Centre [prod: Harry Govan] doc/b&w/40m; ep doc series 'Meeting Point', 1956-68 |
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1961 |
Sunderland Oak [Philip Donnellan] doc/b&w/30m/16mm |
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1961 |
At a Nation's Heart [Louis Miller] doc/b&w/30m; ep doc series 'Meeting Point' |
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1962 |
Charley Was My Darling [prod: Alan Bromly] tvm/b&w/75m; ep drama anthology series 'The Sunday-Night Play', 1960-63 |
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1962 |
With West Indians [prod: John Elphinstone-Fyffe] doc/b&w/30m; cph: Douglas Wolfe; ep doc series 'Meeting Point' |
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1962 |
Here's Harry [ep #24 'The Supporter' prod by John Ammonds] 60-part (x 30m) comedy series/b&w, 1960-65; 4th season, 1962 (12 ep) |
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1962 |
Goodbye Piccadilly [John Read] doc/b&w/50m |
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1962 |
A Stretch in the Sun [ep #1 'The Changing Shore' prod by Tony Essex] ?-part (x 50m) doc series |
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1962 |
Dixon of Dock Green [ep #194 'The River People' dir by Robin Nash] 432-part series/b&w + c, 1955-76; 9th season/b&w, 1962-63 |
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1962 |
The Pilots [Richard Cawston] doc/b&w/70m |
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1963 |
Hotel De Luxe [prod: Anthony de Lotbinière] doc/45m |
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1963 |
Supersonic [Richard Cawston] doc/b&w/70m (1964) |
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1964 |
Uncommon Market [- A Close Look at Les Halles, the Belly of Paris] [Stephen Hearst] doc/b&w/35m |
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1964 |
Square One [Robert Kitts] doc/45m |
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1964 |
Experiment with Crime [prod: Maurice Harvey] doc/30m; cph: Geoffrey Mulligan |
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1964 |
Lance at Large [ep #3 prod by Dennis Main-Wilson] 6-part (x 25m) comedy series/b&w; cph (#3): A.A. Englander |
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1964 |
The World of Billy Walker [Stephen Hearst & Denis Postle] doc/b&w/60m; cph: Albert Maysles |
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1964 |
Z Cars [ep #123 'The Hunch' dir by Ian Curteis, #124 'Two in the Bush' dir by Eric Hills, #125 'Welcome Home, Jigger' dir by Geoffrey Nethercott, #126 'In a Day's Work' dir by Shaun Sutton, #133 'Think On' dir by Philip Dudley & #134 'The Luck of the Game' dir by Peter Cregeen] 667-part series, 1962-65 & 1967-78; 4th season, 1964-65 |
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1964 |
[The Indian Stories of Rudyard] Kipling [ep #16 'Miss Youghal's Sais' dir by Harold Clayton] 25-part series; other ph: A.A. Englander, David Prosser, a.o. |
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1964 |
Culloden/The Battle of Culloden [Peter Watkins] docudrama (doc reconstruction)/b&w/75m/16mm (+ 35bu) |
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1964 |
The Rape of Utopia [ep #1 'The Disenchanted City' dir by John Read (JR) & #2 'Jam Tomorrow' dir by JR] ?-part (x 45m) doc series; cph: Eugene Carr |
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1964 |
R3 [- Ministry of Research Centre No. 3] [ep #1 'A State of Anxiety' dir by Moira Armstrong & #7 'The Forum' dir by Bill Hays] 26-part series/b&w, 1964-65; 1st season, 1964-65 (13 ep) |
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1964 |
Six [ep #2 'The Chase' (35m) dir by Michael Elster & #5 'The Logic Game' (45m) dir by Philip Saville] 6-part series, 1964-65 |
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1964 |
Doctor Who [ep #11 'The Rescue' (2 parts: 'The Powerful Enemy' & 'Desperate Measures') dir by Christopher Barry (CB) & #12 'The Romans' (4 parts: 'The Slave Traders', 'All Roads Lead to Rome', 'Conspiracy' & 'Inferno') dir by CB] series with 159 ep (in 700 parts), 1963-89; 2nd season, 1964-65 |
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1964 |
Dixon of Dock Green [ep #247 'A Fine Art' dir by David Askey] 11th season/b&w, 1964-65; see 1962 |
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1965 |
Sherlock Holmes [ep #7 'The Man with the Twisted Lip' dir by Eric Tayler] pilot (1964) + 12-part series, 1965; other ph: Ken Westbury, A.A. Englander, James Balfour, a.o. |
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1965 |
Inside America [ep #1 'The Happy World of Sante Amadio' dir by Brian Lewis (BL), #2 'The Crusader' dir by BL, #6 'Sermon in Little Rock' dir by Richard Marquand (RM), #9 'Woman of Action' dir by RM & #10 'The Rough Diamond' dir by RM] 13-part (x 30m) doc series/b&w/16mm |
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1965 |
Eton [Anthony de Lotbinière] doc/b&w/50m |
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1965 |
The Troubleshooters/Mogul [ep #8 'The Way It Crumbles' dir by Shaun Sutton] 136-part series, 1965-72; 1st season, 1965 |
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1965 |
King of the River [various] 16-part (+ 1 postponed ep aired in 1967) series/b&w/tape + film inserts, 1966 |
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1966 |
Isadora [Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World] [Ken Russell] docudrama/b&w/64m; cph: Brian Tufano |
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1966 |
Alice in Wonderland [Jonathan Miller] tvm/b&w; ep drama anthology series 'The Wednesday Play' |
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1966 |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ep #1 'Lot 249' dir by Richard Martin] 13-part series/b&w, 1967; ph 35mm film inserts |
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1968 |
A Life of Christ [Christopher Martin] 3-part (#1 'The Birth', #2 'The Ministry' & #3 'The Road to Emmaus') doc series, 1968-69 |
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1967 |
Breakaway [ep #5 'My Friends Think I'm Mad' dir by Walter Storey] 8-part (x 30m) doc series; 1968; cph (#5): Mark Macdonald |
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1967 |
Jerusalem the Golden [Edward Mirzoeff] doc/30m |
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1967 |
Ben-Gurion of Israel [Edward Mirzoeff] doc/45m |
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1968 |
Chronicle [ep (= item #1 of 2) 'Sarajevo 1914' dir by Kenneth Shepheard] doc series, 1966-91; cph: Geoff Mulligan |
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1968 |
Whistle and I'll Come to You [Jonathan Miller] tvm/b&w/42m/16mm; ep arts series 'Omnibus' |
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1968 |
Song of Summer/Delius [Ken Russell] docudrama/b&w/73m; ep arts series 'Omnibus' |
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1968 |
The Gorge [Christopher Morahan] tvm/b&w/75m; ep drama anthology series 'The Wednesday Play' |
|
1971 |
This Is Noël Coward [Charles Castle] doc/96m/16mm |
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1971 |
Daily Round [Dick Bush] exp short/8m |
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1972 |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [David Winters] tvm/v; musical version of the story |
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1978 |
Clouds of Glory: William and Dorothy [Ken Russell] tvm/52m/16mm |
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1978 |
Clouds of Glory: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [Ken Russell] tvm/52m/16mm |
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1986 |
Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story [Michael Lindsay-Hogg] tvm |
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1986 |
The Quick and the Dead [Robert Day] tvm |
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1986 |
Desperado [Virgil W. Vogel] pilot/93m; for NBC-tv (1987) |
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1987 |
Assault and Matrimony [James Frawley] tvm; addph: Laszlo George |
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1989 |
A British Picture - Portrait of an Enfant Terrible [Ken Russell] doc/b&w-c/50m; addph: Mike Coles; ep LWT-tv series 'The South Bank Show' |
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1991 |
Julie [ep #1 dir by Blake Edwards] 6-part sitcom; for ABC-tv |
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1991 |
O Pioneers! [Glenn Jordan] tvm; ep #281 'Hallmark Hall of Fame'-series |
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1993 |
Ultimate Betrayal [Donald Wrye] tvm |
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1994 |
The Man in the Attic [Graeme Campbell] tvm |
