Born in London 1931 Educated at Dunstable Ashton Grammar School. ST MARTIN'S SCHOOL OF ART National Diploma in Design
BRIGHTON COLLEGE OF ART Art Teacher’s Diploma
Advertising
Art Director J WALTER THOMPSON
COLMAN PRENTIS & VARLEY Art Group Head
S.H.BENSON Creative Group Head
GRAHAM & GILLIES Creative Director, partner on the board
[Founder member of DESIGNERS & ART DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION
PHOTOGRAPHY
Regularly commissioned by
SUNDAY TIMES COLOUR SUPPLEMENT London
ESQUIRE MAGAZINE New York
MADEMOISELLE New York
INGENUE New York
TOWN MAGAZINE London
TWEN MAGAZINE Munich
Innumerable advertising agencies in the US, England & Europe
Writing: The original story outline for VANISHING POINT
Film-making: THE AROUSING fifteen minutes - 16mm colour. awarded Yugoslavia, Tito Ptize For Short Films.
Commissioned to film at Woodstock Festival 1969 as Unit Director.
Oedipus Rex Budget: $5M - $10M | Western The plot of Oedipus Rex is a straightforward interpretation of a Greek myth. When the king and queen of Thebes give birth to a son, Oedipus, an oracle ( the crazy old man from the hills, tells them that their child will kill his father. To avoid this the king, Laius, orders the child to have his feet broken and then be left for dead.The King wins his queen in a rigged poker game. The epic unfolds when the killing of oedipus is prevented by
Crossing The Line Budget: $1M - $5M | Other In Apartheid South Africa a white girl falls in love with a Black African. She leaves her husband to live with him. Discovered together by Special Branch of Police they are photographed while the Police kick the African to death. Her husband, about to return home to England, sees the photograph in a newspaper, changes his mind and stays.