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BFI Screenonline: Dickinson, Thorold (1903-1984) Biography
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Thorold Dickinson remains a paradoxical figure among Britain's major film directors. Taken overall, his nine features display a degree of visual refinement and intellectual ambition unusual in a director attached to the mainstream British film industry. Yet the projects into which he put most effort and personal commitment, like Secret People (1952) and Men of Two Worlds (1946), proved less artistically successful than his hastier, more commercial assignments, notably Gaslight (1940) and The Queen of Spades (1949). During the undulations of his career, he assumed various key official positions - co-ordinator of the Army Kinematograph Service's film unit, Chief of Film Services at UNESCO, Professor of Film at the Slade School of Fine Art - but whether beyond or behind the film camera Dickinson stayed the eternal outsider, never comfortable in an Establishment niche.Thorold Barron Dickinson was born in Bristol on 16 November, 1903, the son of the city's Archdeacon, with claimed ancestral...
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