Raymond Egerton Harry Watt (18 ga Oktoba 1906 - 2 ga Afrilu 1987) ya kasance dan wasan Scotland ne kuma darektan fim, wanda ya fara aikinsa yana aiki ga John Grierson da Robert Flaherty. –
Fim dinsa na 1959 The Siege na Pinchgut ya shiga cikin 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
Tarihin rayuwa
An haife shi a Edinburgh, ɗan ɗan ɗan majalisa na Liberal na Scotland Harry Watt. Ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Edinburgh amma ya kasa kammala digiri. Ya shiga cikin Rundunar Sojan Ruwa kuma ya yi aiki a ayyukan masana'antu da yawa.
Hotuna
A cikin 1932, Watt ya shiga sashin fina-finai na Empire Marketing Board a ƙarƙashin John Grierson kuma ya fara aiki a kan shirye-shirye. Ya kasance mataimakin Man of Aran (1934).
A cikin 1936 Watt ya zama darektan sashin London na jerin labarai na Amurka Maris na Lokaci, inda fina-finai ya haɗa da Ingila's Tithe War (1936).
Watt daga nan ya shiga GPO Film Unit inda ya yi sunansa a matsayin mai shirya shirye-shirye tare da Night Mail (1936) wanda ya sami yabo sosai. Ya biyo baya tare da The Saving of Bill Blewitt (1936) tare da Bill Blewitte, wanda daga nan ya bayyana a cikin Watt's North Sea (1938).
Yaƙin Duniya na II ya ga Watt yana yin fina-finai masu taken yaƙi: Squadron 992 (1940), London Can Take It! (1940) da Kirsimeti a karkashin wuta (1941). Fim dinsa Target for Tonight (1941) ya lashe lambar yabo ta Kwalejin girmamawa a 1942.
Abubuwan da ke ciki
Watt ya fara fitowa da Nine Men (1943), fim din yaki wanda Michael Balcon ya samar. Ya taimaka wajen rubuta For Those in Peril kuma ya bi wannan tare da wasan kwaikwayo, Fiddlers Three (1944) tare da Tommy Trinder.
Balcon ya aika Watt zuwa Ostiraliya don neman batun fim din. Sakamakon shi ne The Overlanders (1946) wanda ya kasance babban abin bugawa kuma ya taimaka wajen yin tauraron Chips Rafferty. Ya yi wa Ealing wahayi don kafa samarwa a Ostiraliya. Koyaya bin, Eureka Stockade (1949), bai yi nasara ba.
Watt ya tafi Gabashin Afirka a kan irin wannan aikin da yake da shi ga The Overlanders - tafiya a duk faɗin ƙasar, kuma ya sami batun fim. Ya zo da Where No Vultures Fly (1951) wanda ya kasance wani babban abin bugawa. Ya haifar da ci gaba mara nasara, Yammacin Zanzibar (1954).
Watt ya yi aiki a matsayin furodusa ga Granada Television daga 1955 zuwa 1956.
Ya koma Ostiraliya don Siege na Pinchgut (1959). Ya jagoranci wasu talabijin a shirye-shirye kamar The Four Just Men (1959-60).
Ya mutu a Amersham, Buckinghamshire.
