Bernard Knowles

Bernard Knowles was born on Feb 20, 1900 in UK. Bernard Knowles's big-screen debut came with Dawn directed by Herbert Wilcox in 1928. Bernard Knowles is known for Gaslight directed by Thorold Dickinson, Anton Walbrook stars as Paul Mallen and Diana Wynyard as Bella Mallen. The upcoming new movie Bernard Knowles plays is Hell Is Empty which will be released on Jun 01, 1969.

British director Bernard Knowles started his career as a newspaper photographer, and in the 1920s journeyed to the US and worked as a photographer for the Detroit News. Upon his return to England in 1922 he was hired by Gainsborough Pictures as an assistant cameraman, and it didn't take long for him to become a full-fledged Director of Photography. He gained a reputation as an innovator in photographic techniques and for his mastery of moody, atmospheric black-and-white photography, most notably on such classic films as Les 39 marches (1935), Les mines du Roi Salomon (1937) and Hantise (1940). After World War II he set out to fulfill his ambition of becoming a director, and his debut was the well-received ghost story Le médaillon fatal (1945). However, his next film, L'archet magique (1946), a "biopic" of 19th-century violinist/composer Nicolo Paganini, was a critical and commercial flop, being derided as heavy-handed and slow-moving. His film career faded somewhat after that, and in the mid-'50s he turned to television, making the occasional foray back into feature films.