Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1900-01-15 (74 years old)
Deathday
1974-08-13
Place of Birth
Turnbridge Wells, Kent, U.K.
Also known As
Bob Compton-Bennett
Herbert William Compton Bennett (15 January 1900 – 11 August 1974), better known as Compton Bennett, was an English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film The Seventh Veil and the 1950 version of the film King Solomon's Mines, an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain story. Bennett was born in Tunbridge Wells, England. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a band leader and a commercial artist before trying his hand at amateur filmmaking. One of these early films helped him land a job at Alexander Korda's London Films in 1932. There, he became a film editor; later he would help make instru...
1949
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1948
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1946
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1960
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as Producer
1965
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1952
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1965
1942
as Director
1942
as Writer
1957
as Director
1957
as Screenplay
1945
as Associate Producer
1942
as Editor
1945
as Production Design
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