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| name =Arthur Crabtree
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| birth_date = 29 October 1900
| birth_place = [[Shipley, West Yorkshire|Shipley, Yorkshire, England]], UK
| death_date = 15 March 1975 (aged 74)
| death_place = [[Worthing]], [[Sussex]], [[England]], UK
| occupation = Director, cinematographer
| yearsactive = 1931-1961 (film & TV)
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'''Arthur Crabtree''' (29 October 1900 in [[Shipley, West Yorkshire|Shipley, Yorkshire]], England – 15 March 1975 in [[Worthing]], [[Sussex]], England) was a British [[cinematographer]] and [[film director]]. He directed films with comedians such as [[Will Hay]], the [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|Crazy Gang]] and [[Arthur Askey]] and several of the [[Gainsborough Melodramas]].

==Cinematographer==
Crabtree earliest credits as a [[cinematography|cinematographer]] were for [[British International Pictures]]. He shot ''[[Out of the Blue (1931 film)|Out of the Blue]]'' (1931) with [[Jessie Matthews]]; ''[[Verdict of the Sea]]'' (1932); and ''[[The Maid of the Mountains (film)|The Maid of the Mountains]]'' (1932).

Crabtree did some films for [[Michael Powell]], ''[[Lazybones (1935 film)|Lazybones]]'' (1935) and ''[[The Love Test]]'' (1935). He was a camera operator on ''[[First a Girl]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article191510890 |title=Film Gossip |newspaper=[[Telegraph (Brisbane)|The Telegraph]] |location=Brisbane |date=19 November 1935 |accessdate=27 October 2017 |page=6|edition=SECOND |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

===Gainsborough Pictures===
Crabtree joined [[Gainsborough Pictures]]. He worked on ''[[The First Offence]]'' (1936) with [[John Mills]]; ''[[Pot Luck (1936 film)|Pot Luck]]'' (1936) with [[Tom Walls]] and [[Ralph Lynn]]; ''[[Everybody Dance (film)|Everybody Dance]]'' (1936) with [[Cicely Courtneidge]]; and ''[[All In (film)|All In]]'' (1936) with Lynn for director [[Marcel Varnel]].

He went on to ''[[Good Morning, Boys]]'' (1937) with [[Will Hay]]; ''[[The Great Barrier (film)|The Great Barrier]]'' (1937) with [[Richard Arlen]], shot partly on location in [[Canada]]; ''[[Said O'Reilly to McNab]]'' (1937) with [[Will Mahoney]] and [[Will Fyffe]]; and ''[[Oh, Mr. Porter!]]'' (1937) with Hay.

Crabtree shot ''[[Bank Holiday (film)|Bank Holiday]]'' (1938) for director [[Carol Reed]] starring [[Margaret Lockwood]]. He did ''[[Convict 99]]'' (1938) with Hay; ''[[Alf's Button Afloat]]'' (1938) with [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]] for Varney; ''[[Old Bones of the River]]'' (1938) and ''[[Hey! Hey! USA]]'' (1938) with Hay; ''[[The Frozen Limits]]'' (1939) with [[Crazy Gang (comedy group)|The Crazy Gang]]. Most of these films were directed by [[Marcel Varnel]]. So was ''[[Where's That Fire?]]'' (1940) with Hay; and ''[[Band Waggon (film)|Band Waggon]]'' (1940) with [[Arthur Askey]]. He did some photography work on ''[[Neutral Port]]'' (1940).

Crabtree shot ''[[For Freedom (1940 film)|For Freedom]]'' (1940) with [[Will Fyffe]]; ''[[Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt]]'' (1940) with Askey; and ''[[Neutral Port]]'' (1940) with Fyffe. He did a short for director [[Anthony Asquith]], ''[[Channel Incident]]'' (1941) and one for [[Herbert Mason]], ''[[Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light]]'' (1941).

After doing ''[[Gasbags]]'' (1941) with the Crazy Gang, Crabtree was used by Carol Reed on ''[[Kipps (1941 film)|Kipps]]'' (1941) at Fox. For that company he also did ''[[Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It]]'' (1941); and ''[[Once a Crook]]'' (1941), and another short for ''Asquith'', ''Rush Hour'' (1941).

Back at Gainsborough, Crabtree shot ''[[I Thank You (film)|I Thank You]]'' (1941) with Askey. After doing ''[[South American George]]'' (1941) with [[George Formby]] at Columbia, he did ''[[Uncensored (film)|Uncensored]]'' (1942) for ''Asquith'' at Gainbsorough.

He did another with Formby at [[Columbia Pictures]], ''[[Much Too Shy]]'' (1942), then went back to Gainbsorough for ''[[King Arthur Was a Gentleman]]'' (1942) with Askey.

===Gainsborough Melodramas===
Crabtree was cinematographer on Gainsborough's ''[[The Man in Grey]]'' (1943), a box-office hit which started the Gainsborough [[melodrama]] cycle and made stars of [[James Mason]], [[Margaret Lockwood]], [[Phyllis Calvert]] and [[Stewart Granger]]. He shot a comedy with Lockwood, ''[[Dear Octopus]]'' (1943), then did another melodrama, ''[[Fanny by Gaslight (film)|Fanny by Gaslight]]'' (1944), directed by Asquith and starring Calvert, Granger and Mason, another huge success. Crabtree followed this with ''[[Waterloo Road (film)|Waterloo Road]]'' (1945) starring Granger and John Mills, directed by [[Sidney Gilliat]].

==Director==
Crabtree had filmed some of Gainsborough's biggest successes and the studio promoted him to director for ''[[Madonna of the Seven Moons]]'' (1945) with Calvert and Granger.<ref>Madonna of the Seven Moons – Sue Harper explores the wider cultural resonances of an escapist gypsy romance and how it tapped into 1940s feminine fantasy History Today; London Vol. 45, Iss. 8, (1 Aug 1995): 47.</ref> [[Phyllis Calvert]] later recalled:
<blockquote>Arthur was a very good cinematographer, but there weren't enough directors, and so people who were scriptwriters or were behind the camera were suddenly made directors. It wasn't that Crabtree was an unsatisfactory director, just that we found ourselves very satisfactory – we did it ourselves. But the fact that he had been a lighting cameraman was wonderful for us, because he knew exactly how to photograph us.<ref>Brian MacFarlane, ''An Autobiography of British Cinema'', Methuen 1997 p 110</ref></blockquote>
The film was a commercial success. So too was Crabtree's second effort as director, ''[[They Were Sisters]]'' (1945) with Calvert and Mason, and his third, ''[[Caravan (1946 film)|Caravan]]'' (1946) with Granger.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article230454547 |title=Menuhin music in British film |newspaper=[[The Sun (Sydney)|The Sun]] |issue=2201 |location=Sydney |date=17 June 1945 |accessdate=27 October 2017 |page=3 (SUPPLEMENT TO THE SUNDAY SUN WEEK END MAGAZINE) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

Crabtree directed a [[Thriller film|thriller]] with [[Eric Portman]] and [[Greta Gynt]], ''[[Dear Murderer]]'' (1947). He followed this with ''[[The Calendar (1948 film)|The Calendar]]'' (1948), with Gynt,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226280838 |title=MAGAZINE |newspaper=[[The South Coast Express]] |volume=1 |issue=2 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=15 September 1949 |accessdate=27 October 2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and was one of the directors on ''[[Quartet (1948 film)|Quartet]]'' (1948).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18471099 |title=NOTES ON FILMS |newspaper=[[The Sunday Herald (Sydney)]] |issue=38 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=9 October 1949 |accessdate=27 October 2017 |page=4 (Features) |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

===Post-Gainsborough===
Crabtree directed ''[[Don't Ever Leave Me]]'' (1949), a comedy, then ''[[Lilli Marlene (film)|Lilli Marlene]]'' (1950), a [[war film]]. He made ''[[Hindle Wakes (1952 film)|Hindle Wakes]]'' (1952), ''[[The Wedding of Lilli Marlene]]'' (1953) and ''[[Stryker of the Yard]]'' (also 1953). Crabtree moved into television, directing episodes of ''[[Colonel March of Scotland Yard]]'', ''[[The Adventures of Sir Lancelot]]'', ''[[Rheingold Theatre]]'', and ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)|The Adventures of Robin Hood]]''.

Crabtree moved into [[B movie|"B" films]]. He made ''[[Morning Call (film)|Morning Call]]'' (1957), then did ''[[West of Suez]]'' (1958) for producer [[Richard Gordon (film producer)|Richard Gordon]] starring [[Keefe Brasselle]]. He made ''[[Death Over My Shoulder]]'' (1958) with Brasselle, then did another for Gordon, ''[[Fiend Without a Face]]'' (1958).

After directing episodes of ''[[Ivanhoe (1958 TV series)|Ivanhoe]]'' he helmed ''[[Horrors of the Black Museum]]'' (1959) for producer [[Herman Cohen]] and a 1961 episode of the ''[[Stryker of the Yard]]'' series.

==Filmography==
===Cinematographer===
{{div col|colwidth=35em}}
* ''[[Out of the Blue (1931 film)|Out of the Blue]]'' (1931)
* ''[[The Maid of the Mountains (film)|The Maid of the Mountains]]'' (1932)
* ''[[Verdict of the Sea]]'' (1932)
* ''[[Lazybones (1935 film)|Lazybones]]'' (1935)
* ''[[The Love Test]]'' (1935)
* ''[[The First Offence]]'' (1936)
* ''[[All In (film)|All In]]'' (1936)
* ''[[Pot Luck (1936 film)|Pot Luck]]'' (1936)
* ''[[Good Morning, Boys]]'' (1937)
* ''[[Said O'Reilly to McNab]]'' (1937)
* ''[[The Great Barrier (film)|The Great Barrier]]'' (1937)
* ''[[Oh, Mr. Porter!]]'' (1937)
* ''[[Alf's Button Afloat]]'' (1938)
* ''[[Hey! Hey! USA]]'' (1938)
* ''[[Old Bones of the River]]'' (1938)
* ''[[Bank Holiday (film)|Bank Holiday]]'' (1938)
* ''[[Convict 99]]'' (1938)
* ''[[The Frozen Limits]]'' (1939)
* ''[[Where's That Fire?]]'' (1940)
* ''[[Band Waggon (film)|Band Waggon]]'' (1940)
* ''[[For Freedom (1940 film)|For Freedom]]'' (1940)
* ''[[Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt]]'' (1940)
* ''[[Neutral Port]]'' (1940)
* ''[[Gasbags]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Kipps (1941 film)|Kipps]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Once a Crook]]'' (1941)
* ''[[I Thank You (film)|I Thank You]]'' (1941)
* ''[[South American George]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Uncensored (film)|Uncensored]]'' (1942)
* ''[[Much Too Shy]]'' (1942)
* ''[[King Arthur Was a Gentleman]]'' (1942)
* ''[[The Man in Grey]]'' (1943)
* ''[[Dear Octopus]]'' (1943)
* ''[[Fanny by Gaslight (film)|Fanny by Gaslight]]'' (1944)
* ''[[Waterloo Road (film)|Waterloo Road]]'' (1945)
{{div col end}}

===Director===
* ''[[Madonna of the Seven Moons]]'' (1945)
* ''[[They Were Sisters]]'' (1945)
* ''[[Caravan (1946 film)|Caravan]]'' (1946)
* ''[[Dear Murderer]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Quartet (1948 film)|Quartet]]'' (1948)
* ''[[The Calendar (1948 film)|The Calendar]]'' (1948)
* ''[[Don't Ever Leave Me]]'' (1949)
* ''[[Lilli Marlene (film)|Lilli Marlene]]'' (1951)
* ''[[Hindle Wakes (1952 film)|Hindle Wakes]]'' (1952)
* ''[[The Wedding of Lilli Marlene]]'' (1953)
* ''[[Stryker of the Yard]]'' (1953, TV series)
* ''[[Rheingold Theatre]]'' (1954, TV series)
* ''[[Colonel March of Scotland Yard]]'' (1955, TV series)
* ''[[The Adventures of Sir Lancelot]]'' (1956, TV series)
* ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series)|The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' (1956, TV series)
* ''[[Morning Call (film)|Morning Call]]'' (1957)
* ''[[West of Suez]]'' (1957)
* ''[[Ivanhoe (1958 TV series)|Ivanhoe]]'' (1958, TV series)
* ''[[Death Over My Shoulder]]'' (1958)
* ''[[Fiend Without a Face]]'' (1958)
* ''[[Horrors of the Black Museum]]'' (1959)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Screenonline name|id=447106}}
* {{imdb name|0005674}}

{{Arthur Crabtree}}

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[[Category:1975 deaths]]
[[Category:English cinematographers]]
[[Category:English film directors]]
[[Category:People from Shipley, West Yorkshire]]

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