Born in London in 1906 and died in 1976, Reed made a series of acclaimed British thrillers and dramas in the 1940s, using dramatic shadows and tilted camera angles. He later won an Oscar for the musical Oliver!
Filmography
- Night Train to Munich (1940)
- The Way Ahead (1944)
- Odd Man Out (1947)
- The Fallen Idol (1948)
- The Third Man (1949)
- Outcast of the Islands (1951)
- Trapeze (1956)
- Our Man in Havana (1959)
- Oliver! (1968)