Compton Bennett
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday15 January 1900
Died13 August 1974 (age 74)
Place of birthTurnbridge Wells, Kent, U.K.
Known credits21
Biography
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 bec…
How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment
1965 · Director
How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment
1965 · Writer
How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment
1965 · Producer
Beyond the Curtain
1960 · Director
The Flying Scot
1957 · Director
The Flying Scot
1957 · Producer
After the Ball
1957 · Director
That Woman Opposite
1957 · Director
That Woman Opposite
1957 · Screenplay
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955 · Director
Desperate Moment
1953 · Director
It Started in Paradise
1952 · Director
Gift Horse
1952 · Director
So Little Time
1952 · Director
King Solomon's Mines
1950 · Director
That Forsyte Woman
1949 · Director
My Own True Love
1948 · Director
Daybreak
1948 · Director
The Years Between
1946 · Director
The Seventh Veil
1945 · Director
29 Acacia Avenue
1945 · Associate Producer
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I
1945 · Production Design
The Flemish Farm
1943 · Editor
The Big Blockade
1942 · Editor
Find, Fix and Strike
1942 · Director
Find, Fix and Strike
1942 · Writer
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