About
Herbert William Compton Bennett (15 January 1900 – 11 August 1974), better known as Compton Bennett, was an English film director, writer and producer. He is perhaps best known for directing the 1945 film The Seventh Veil and the 1950 version of the film King Solomon's Mines, an adaptation of an Allan Quatermain story. Bennett was born in Tunbridge Wells, England. At the beginning of his career, he worked as a band leader and a commercial artist before trying his hand at amateur filmmaking. One of these early films helped him land a job at Alexander Korda's London Films in 1932. There, he became a film editor; later he would help make instructional and propaganda films for the British armed forces during World War II.
Filmography
How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment1965 · Director, Writer, Producer
Beyond the Curtain1960 · Director
The Flying Scot1957 · Director, Producer
After the Ball1957 · Director
That Woman Opposite1957 · Director, Screenplay
Desperate Moment1953 · Director
It Started in Paradise1952 · Director
Gift Horse1952 · Director
So Little Time1952 · Director
King Solomon's Mines1950 · Director
That Forsyte Woman1949 · Director
My Own True Love1948 · Director
Daybreak1948 · Director
The Years Between1946 · Director
The Seventh Veil1945 · Director
29 Acacia Avenue1945 · Associate Producer
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. 2: Macbeth Act II, Scene 2 and Act V, Scene I1945 · Production Design
The Flemish Farm1943 · Editor
The Big Blockade1942 · Editor
Find, Fix and Strike1942 · Director, Writer