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Filmmaker · Scotland

Bill Douglas

Died in 1991

Bill Douglas was born in 1934 in Newcraighall, a mining village near Edinburgh, and grew up in poverty, raised by his two grandmothers. A soldier in Egypt, he met Peter Jewell there, his lifelong friend, with whom he assembled over thirty years a collection of objects linked to cinema and to what preceded it, which became a museum at the University of Exeter. He made only four films and died in 1991 without having shot his other projects.

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