Bernard Knowles
Bernard Knowles (1900–1975) was an English filmmaker who established his reputation as a cinematographer before turning to directing in the mid-1940s. After early work as a newspaper photographer in Britain and the United States, he was hired by Gainsborough Pictures in 1922 and rose to director of photography, becoming known for atmospheric black-and-white work on Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, Robert Stevenson's King Solomon's Mines, and Thorold Dickinson's Gaslight (Angel Street). After the Second World War he moved into directing with the well-received ghost story A Place of One's Own (1945), the comedy Easy Money (1948), and The Perfect Woman (1949). In the television era he directed widely for British series including Fabian of the Yard, Dial 999, Ivanhoe, and The Adventures of Robin Hood.