David Watkin

• Born: Mar 23, 1925 in Margate, England
• Died: Feb 19, 2008
• Occupation: Cinematographer
• Active: '60s-'90s
• Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
• Career Highlights: Moonstruck, Marat / Sade, Goldfinger
• First Major Screen Credit: Josephine and Men (1955)

Biography

The number of British cinematographers who started out as studio messenger boys would probably fill Albert Hall. One such cinematographer was David Watkin, who went from gopher to documentary cameraman in 1955. His work on dramatic films has demonstrated a rare versatility; Watkin was equally adept at the "mod" silliness of Help (1965) and The Knack (1966) as he was at the sweaty asylum agonies of Marat/Sade (1967). Some of his best work concentrated on period films, taking full advantage of the extreme color contrasts (from purple pageantry to murky mud) of days gone by: The Devils (1971), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers (1974), Robin and Marian (1976), Yentl (1983), Hamlet (1990), and many others. David Watkin won an Academy award for his lush, lavish work on the Oscar-winning Out of Africa (1985). Watkins died in 2008. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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(1941– )

English architectural historian. His Morality and Architecture (1977), a critique of arguments and criteria of judgement prevalent from the time of A. W. N. Pugin to that of Pevsner, exposed the fallacies of an inevitable unfolding logic in architectural evolution leading to the Modern Movement. Among his publications Thomas Hope 1769–1831 and the Neo-Classical Idea (1968), The Life and Work of C. R. Cockerell R. A. (1974), German Architecture and the Classical Ideal (1740–1840) (1987—with Tilman Mellinghoff), and Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought and the Royal Academy Lectures (1996) may be cited.

Bibliography

• Middleton & Watkin (1987)
• personal knowledge
• D.Watkin (1968, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1982a, 1986, 1996, 2001, 2004)
• D.Watkin (ed.) (2000)
• W&M (1987)

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