Walter J. Harvey

Nacimiento : 1903-02-09, Hornsey, London, England, UK

Películas

Boy With a Flute
Director of Photography
An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
Echo of Diana
Director of Photography
When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.
Night of the Prowler
Director of Photography
An avaricious, ambitious fellow, desiring to hold the reins for a major auto company, must frame someone for murder before he can get what he wants. He chooses a reformed embezzler who works for the company.
Danger by My Side
Director of Photography
A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.
The Pursuers
Director of Photography
A group of former concentration camp prisoners has formed an underground network to hunt Nazi leaders, who are still on the loose. At a secret meeting in Paris they discuss what to do with the former Auschwitz commandant Karl Brochmann, who since 12 years lives in London under the false identity of Karl Luther. They decide to take the law in their own hands, and send their member David to London. He starts his commission by scaring Luther, to see his reactions. Luther is already nervous, because the newspapers are writing about the capture of Eichmann. When he finds out that somebody has broken into his apartment and painted a swastika on his mirror, he gets terrified. He empties his bank account, packs a bag with all his cash and runs away, followed by David.
Part-Time Wife
Director of Photography
Insurance salesman Tom and his wife Jenny are struggling through the first years of marriage in a modest flat, on Tom's even more modest salary. By contrast Drew, Tom's old army pal, is a footloose bachelor currently running a car-hire firm owned by his rich uncle, who lives in Canada. Since Drew's uncle makes it clear that his nephew will only inherit the business when he's a respectable married man, his upcoming visit throws Drew into a panic. Having taken a fancy to the vivacious Jenny, Drew persuades her to masquerade as his wife – an arrangement that leads the trio into some highly complicated situations!
Murder in Eden
Cinematography
Max Varnel’s British mystery thriller. After discovering a famous painting is a forgery, a noted art critic is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Starring Ray McAnally, Catherine Feller and Yvonne Buckingham.
The Third Alibi
Director of Photography
A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.
The House in Marsh Road
Cinematography
When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair.
The Hand
Director of Photography
During World War II, a group of British soldiers are captured by the Japanese, tortured and their hands are cut off. Years later, a mad killer terrorizes London by cutting off the hands of his victims.
Broth of a Boy
Director of Photography
An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.
Naked Fury
Director of Photography
A gang of thieves led by American Eddy (Reed de Rouen) kill a security guard during a botched safe robbery and flee with his daughter (Leigh Madison) as a hostage. They hide out in a dangerously unstable old warehouse for a couple of days awaiting their getaway ship to sail, but Johnny (Kenneth Cope) falls for the girl - provoking a serious falling-out and a violent conclusion to the disastrous heist.
The End of the Line
Director of Photography
The wife of a night club owner frames an American writer for his murder.
Kill Her Gently
Director of Photography
A motorist picks up to escaped convicts. Instead of turning them over to the police he hires them to kill his wife.
The Big Chance
Director of Photography
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
You Pay Your Money
Director of Photography
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
Women Without Men
Director of Photography
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...
One Way Out
Director of Photography
A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices finds that once he's set foot on the path of corruption he is trapped by an ever more complex web of lies and intrigue. A lifetime of personal honour is at stake and we wonder if redemption is possible.
El experimento del Dr. Quatermass
Director of Photography
El primer cohete espacial británico ha despegado con éxito y vuelve a la Tierra, pero la comunicación se corta. Sólo uno de los tres astronautas permanece a bordo, y su salud, tanto física como mental está gravemente dañada. Es puesto bajo observación pero su esposa le saca del hospital, liberando de este una gran amenaza para la humanidad, ya que el sobreviviente está siendo consumido por una fuerza alienígena.
Stolen Assignment
Director of Photography
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
The Glass Cage
Director of Photography
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
The Lyons in Paris
Director of Photography
The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary making his wife Bebe furious. When his son sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst. But Ben has laid false evidence in order to surprise the whole family with a trip to France. Only, once in Paris, all the day's previous misunderstandings pail into insignificance at the compromising situations the Lyons get themselves into.
Rapto en Hamburgo
Cinematography
Un sabio atómico escapa de un país comunista y los servicios de espionaje tratan de encontrarlo ya que posee importantes documentos.
Mask of Dust
Director of Photography
An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide whether to continue in the Grand Prix, or make peace with his adversary. Featuring race car greats Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell, John Cooper, Alan Brown, Geoffrey Taylor and Leslie Marr.
Los hombres del bosque de Sherwood
Director of Photography
Inglaterra. 1194. El rey Ricardo Corazón de León está prisionero en Alemania después de luchar en las Cruzadas. Su hermano, el príncipe John, toma el trono en su ausencia. Un hombre aparece asesinado en el bosque de Sherwood y se culpa a Robin Hood. Robin no sólo es inocente sino que la víctima formaba parte de una misión para liberar al rey Ricardo y asegurar su vuelta a Inglaterra. Robin Hood tendrá que luchar por la liberación del rey Ricardo y por demostrar su inocencia.
The Unholy Four
Director of Photography
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
Five Days
Director of Photography
A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.
The House Across the Lake
Director of Photography
Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an older man, loving only his vast wealth and continued to amuse herself with indiscreet affairs. But when neighbour Mark Kendrick lets slip that her husband intends cutting her out of his will Carol concentrates all her attentions on the unsuspecting Kendrick, obtaining his help to dispose of this irritating obstacle.
Blackout
Director of Photography
When a beautiful girl offers Casey Morrow a lot of money for a mystery job, Morrow doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood perhaps a little more caution should have been exercised. An intriguing story of deception, greed and immorality.
Face the Music
Director of Photography
A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
36 Hours
Director of Photography
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
The Saint's Return
Director of Photography
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
The Flanagan Boy
Director of Photography
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.
Noose for a Lady
Director of Photography
An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.
Blood Orange
Director of Photography
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
The Gambler and the Lady
Director of Photography
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.
Lady in the Fog
Director of Photography
In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freaky accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.
Cara robada
Director of Photography
Un cirujano plástico, apasionadamente enamorado de una célebre pianista, se vuelve loco cuando ella lo rechaza. Entonces decide operar a una convicta y reconstruir su rostro haciéndolo identico al de su amada.
Wings of Danger
Director of Photography
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion.
Chantaje criminal
Director of Photography
El director de una gran librería comete un desliz con una empleada. Cuando ésta traba amistad con un ex presidiario ambos trazarán un plan para chantajearle.
Death of an Angel
Director of Photography
The angel of the title is Jane Baxter, the wife of country physician Patrick Barr. Everybody in the small British village where she lives thinks the world of Baxter; thus, when she is murdered, the authorities are out for blood. Dr. Barr seems above suspicion, at least until he begins behaving eccentrically. As time passes, most everyone learns that Baxter wasn't quite as angelic as she seemed-and that quite a few people might have wanted her dead.
A Case For P.C. 49
Director of Photography
A model’s scheme to murder a millionaire with the intention of inheriting his fortune is uncovered by a police constable.
The Rossiter Case
Director of Photography
A husband cheats on his disabled wife--who has been paralyzed in a car accident--with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns out that he may not be the killer after all.
Cloudburst
Director of Photography
Canadian World War II veteran John Graham (Robert Preston) works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol (Elizabeth Sellars), is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.
The Lady Craved Excitement
Director of Photography
A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
What the Butler Saw
Director of Photography
An Earl returns from a tropical island and discovers the daughter of the tribal King has stowed away in his luggage.
Someone at the Door
Cinematography
A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so they can get the loot for themselves.
A Piece of Cake
Director of Photography
Set in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. Merlin becomes real and grants his host's wishes; not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but depriving them from other people's ownership, which leads to trouble.
Penny and the Pownall Case
Director of Photography
A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.
A Song for Tomorrow
Director of Photography
Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of opera singer Helen Maxwell (Evelyn Maccabe). When he regains consciousness, Wardwell thinks he's in love with her. After his amnesia is cured, Wardwell returns to his fiancee while Helen begins a romance with his doctor.
Tower of Terror
Director of Photography
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
The Team (It All Depends on Me)
Cinematography
Short film about the importance of cooperation in the war effort, featuring Arsenal F.C. and manager George Allison.
Spring Meeting
Director of Photography
Tiny Fox-Collier and her son, Tony, are broke. A cheery and handsome young man about town, Tony knows he can rely on his mother for a brainwave to save them from utter destitution. This she has: a visit is scheduled to the Irish country estate of her old flame Sir Richard Furze, now a wealthy widower with two daughters. But while Tiny is determined to see her son marry the beautiful but haughty Joan, it seems Tony only has eyes for Joan’s spirited younger sister, Baby.
Castle of Crimes
Director of Photography
A wealthy French widow is poisoned in her home, Inspector Hanaud investigates..
The Flying Squad
Director of Photography
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
It Happened to One Man
Director of Photography
A film directed by Paul L. Stein.
The Terror
Director of Photography
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
Ondas mortales
Director of Photography
Bulldog Drummond se enfrenta a agentes extranjeros que intentan robar los planos de un avión de alto secreto.
Sensation
Director of Photography
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
The Tenth Man
Director of Photography
George Winter, a self-made businessman and MP, lets nothing get in the way of his climb to the top. Certain in his belief in the corruptible and foolish nature of others, whenever Winter meets a competitor who can't be bought, he destroys the man through methods both legal and underhanded. Then, he meets his 'tenth man': a victim who refuses to be silenced by threat or bribery, with the power to bring Winter's house of cards crashing down around him.
Ourselves Alone
Director of Photography
One of the most significant films ever made about the Troubles in Ireland, a powerful story of love and conflicting loyalties set against the battle for Ireland's independence.
The Love Nest
Cinematography
On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond.
Their Night Out
Director of Photography
An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!
Strip, Strip, Hooray!
Director of Photography
A specialist sunbathing camp is threatened by a campaign by the leader of the 'Wear More Clothes League'.
Old Spanish Customers
Director of Photography
A henpecked husband is mistaken for a famous toreador while holidaying in Spain!
Brother Alfred
Director of Photography
Vaudevillian Gene Gerrard stars as George, a young man on a yacht moored off Monte Carlo who has a tiff with his fiancée, goes ashore on a glorious binge, then finds himself accused of assaulting a prince! When he attempts to extricate himself by pretending to be his non-existent twin brother, he finds he's really in trouble...
Hobson's Choice
Director of Photography
A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.
Bill and Coo
Director of Photography
'Strong man dreams of bungalow honeymoon with revue star.' (British Film Catalogue)
Dreyfus
Director of Photography
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
We Take Off Our Hats
Director of Photography
Three old muckers meet down the boozer for a natter about their alarmingly swiftly-diminishing circle of friends.
Thou Shalt Not Steal
Director of Photography
The Land of the Shamrock
Director of Photography
'Well-known Irish melodies are rendered by a male choir, illustrated by finely photographed pictures of scenery.' (The Bioscope)