Robert Day(1922-2017)
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Writer
Robert Day worked his way up from clapper boy to camera operator to
full-fledged lensman in his native England before giving directing a
shot in the mid-1950s. His first film as director, the black-comic
The Green Man (1956) for the
writer-producer team of 'Frank Launder
and Sidney Gilliat, garnered fine reviews
and a classic notoriety; using this as a starting point, Day went on to
become one of the industry's busiest directors. He relocated to
Hollywood in the 1960s and began directing scads of TV episodes and
made-for-TV movies on this side of the Atlantic. He occasionally turns
up in bits in his own productions, including
Grip of the Strangler (1958),
Two Way Stretch (1960), the
mini-series
Peter and Paul (1981),
etc.
