Arthur Crabtree

Arthur Crabtree was born on Oct 29, 1900 in UK. Arthur Crabtree's big-screen debut came with Let Me Explain, Dear directed by Gene Gerrard in 1933. Arthur Crabtree is known for Quartet directed by Ken Annakin, Basil Radford stars as Henry Garnet (segment "The Facts of Life") and Naunton Wayne as Leslie (segment "The Facts of Life"). The upcoming new movie Arthur Crabtree plays is Horrors of the Black Museum which will be released on May 31, 1959.

Arthur Crabtree (1900-1975) was born in Shipley, Yorkshire where he gave up a safe job with a local firm of engineers to become a clapper boy at Elstree Studios. He had always been interested in photography and at the age of 29 he took a calculated risk, which paid off, when sound hit the British studios .From being a lowly clapper boy he rose to become an assistant to a young and up coming director called Alfred Hitchcock learning all he could. Ten years later he moved to Gainsborough Studios where he became a cameraman and then a lighting director working on such films as Kipps (1940) ,The Man in Grey (1943), and Fanny by Gaslight (1944). After that he was noticed by Maurice Ostrer who promoted him to director for Madonna of the Seven Moons' This milestone in British film history had a cast that included Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger and caused great queues at cinemas when it was screened in 1945, Subsequent films by Arthur included Lilli Marlene and Hindle Wakes. His last film was Horrors of the Black Museum in 1959 after which he retired