Robert Day

'Robert Day' (qv) worked his way up from clapper boy to camera operator to full-fledged lensman in his native England before giving directing a shot in the mid-1950s. His first film as director, the black-comic _The Green Man (1956)_ (qv) for the writer-producer team of ''Frank Launder' (qv) and 'Sidney Gilliat' (qv), garnered fine reviews and a classic notoriety; using this as a starting point, Day went on to become one of the industry's busiest directors. He relocated to Hollywood in the 1960s and began directing scads of TV episodes and made-for-TV movies on this side of the Atlantic. He occasionally turns up in bits in his own productions, including _The Haunted Strangler (1958)_ (qv), _Two Way Stretch (1960)_ (qv), the mini-series _Peter and Paul (1981)_ (qv), etc.::'Tom Weaver' (qv) <[email protected]>