C.M. Pennington-Richards

C.M. Pennington-Richards was born on Dec 17, 1911 in UK. C.M. Pennington-Richards's big-screen debut came with Fires Were Started directed by Humphrey Jennings in 1943. C.M. Pennington-Richards is known for Guns at Batasi directed by John Guillermin, Richard Attenborough stars as Regimental Sgt. Major Lauderdale and Jack Hawkins as Colonel Deal. The upcoming new movie C.M. Pennington-Richards plays is Guns at Batasi which will be released on Sep 25, 1964.

Cyril Montague Pennington-Richards was born in London. He began his film career producing religious films for J. Arthur Rank's Religious Film Society. He entered the "mainstream" film industry as a cinematographer with Ireland's Border Line (1938), a low-budget vehicle for Irish comic actor Jimmy O'Dea. During World War II Richards was attached to the renowned documentary unit The Crown Film Unit, and was the cinematographer on Humphrey Jennings famous Fires Were Started (1943). After the war ended he continued as a cinematographer, working on many films directed by his former colleagues in the CFU, such as Brian Desmond Hurst's La gloire est à eux (1946), Jack Lee's Le cheval de bois (1950) and Pat Jackson's White Corridors (1951).He was the cinematographer on Hurst's Scrooge (1951), considered by many to be the definitive version of the famous Charles Dickens novel. He worked with noted American director Edward Dmytryk, who was making films in England due to his being blacklisted during the notorious McCarthy "Red Scare" era in the US. Richards made his directorial debut with the comedy The Oracle (1953), and made his reputation with a series of modest, somewhat whimsical comedies over the next 20+ years. He made his final film, the modestly budgeted adventure Sky Pirates (1977), in 1977, after which he retired.