Carol Reed
Carol Reed was an English director born in Putney, London, celebrated for tense, atmospheric thrillers rendered with a distinctive expressionist visual style. The Third Man, set amid the rubble of postwar Vienna and famous for its tilted camera angles and zither score, is widely regarded as one of the greatest British films ever made, while Odd Man Out, following a wounded Irish revolutionary evading capture through a single night, showed a similarly shadow-drenched visual intensity. The Fallen Idol continued his run of morally complex, visually stylish thrillers in the late 1940s, and Oliver!, a later shift into large-scale musical adaptation of Dickens, won Reed the Academy Award for Best Director. Reed's mastery of expressionist shadow and unconventional camera angles to convey moral unease made him one of the defining visual stylists of British postwar cinema.
Carol Reed
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Carol Reed was an English director born in Putney, London, celebrated for tense, atmospheric thrillers rendered with a distinctive expressionist visual style. The Third Man, set amid the rubble of postwar Vienna and famous for its tilted camera angles and zither score, is widely regarded as one of the greatest British films ever made, while Odd Man Out, following a wounded Irish revolutionary evading capture through a single night, showed a similarly shadow-drenched visual intensity. The Fallen Idol continued his run of morally complex, visually stylish thrillers in the late 1940s, and Oliver!, a later shift into large-scale musical adaptation of Dickens, won Reed the Academy Award for Best Director. Reed's mastery of expressionist shadow and unconventional camera angles to convey moral unease made him one of the defining visual stylists of British postwar cinema.
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The Third Man
1949
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Oliver!
1968
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965
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Odd Man Out
1947
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The Running Man
1963
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The Key
1958
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Follow Me!
1972
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The Fallen Idol
1948
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Trapeze
1956
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Our Man in Havana
1960
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Night Train to Munich
1940
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Kipps
1941
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The Man Between
1953
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The Way Ahead
1944
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The Stars Look Down
1940
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A Kid for Two Farthings
1955
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Bank Holiday
1938
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Girl in the News
1940
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Outcast of the Islands
1951
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Flap
1970
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The Young Mr. Pitt
1942
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A Girl Must Live
1939
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Who's Your Lady Friend?
1937
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It Happened in Paris
1935
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Penny Paradise
1938
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Midshipman Easy
1935
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Climbing High
1938
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Carol Reed still alive?
Carol Reed passed away on April 25, 1976 at age 69.
What are the most famous roles of Carol Reed?
Carol Reed is best known for directing The Third Man, Oliver!, Odd Man Out.
How many movies has Carol Reed directed?
Over a 41-year career (since 1935), Carol Reed has directed or written 29 films and worked on 0 TV shows.
What was Carol Reed's first movie?
The career of Carol Reed began with It Happened in Paris (1935).
What is Carol Reed's most recent movie or series?
Carol Reed's most recent release is Follow Me!, which premiered on July 15, 1972.
Carol Reed
1906-12-30 · Putney, London, England, UK
Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), and The Third Man (1949). He won the Palme d'Or for The Third Man and the 1968 Academy Award for Best Director for Oliver!.Carol Reed, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.