Harry Oakes
Harry Oakes was born on 16 January 1921.
After service with the Royal Corps of Signals, Harry Oakes volunteered for the AFPU and served with No 5 Section in North West Europe from 1944 – 1945. He then served in South East Asia and then returned to cover the Allied Occupation of Vienna, December 1946. Equally at home using a cine or still photograph camera, he was one of the AFPU team deployed under the command of Lt H A Wilson to cover the relief of Bergen-Belsen (or Belsen) concentration camp in April 1945. He also covered the Rhein Crossing, accompanying the airborne landing of 6th Airborne Division, and the meeting of British and Soviet Forces on the Elbe.
Harry worked closely with Len Harris whilst at Hammer, and they both left around the same time in 1962.
He also worked as a special effects lighting cameraman on a number of television science fiction programs including Space 1999, Thunderbirds and UFO.
Harry Oakes died in Windsor on 11 December 2012, he was 91.
Harry Oakes’ Hammer Productions (51)
| Year Released | Production | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Someone at the Door | Clapper Loader |
| 1950 | The Man in Black | Clapper Loader |
| 1950 | What the Butler Saw | Clapper Loader |
| 1951 | Cloudburst | Clapper Loader |
| 1952 | The Last Page | Focus Puller |
| 1952 | Wings of Danger | Focus Puller |
| 1953 | Blood Orange | Focus Puller |
| 1953 | The Saint's Return | Focus Puller |
| 1954 | 36 Hours | Focus Puller |
| 1954 | Face the Music | Focus Puller |
| 1954 | Five Days | Focus Puller |
| 1954 | Life with the Lyons | Focus Puller |
| 1954 | Mask of Dust | Focus Puller |
| 1954 | The House Across the Lake | Focus Puller |
| 1954 | The Men of Sherwood Forest | Focus Puller |
| 1955 | Break in the Circle | Focus Puller |
| 1955 | The Lyons in Paris | Focus Puller |
| 1955 | The Quatermass Xperiment | Focus Puller |
| 1956 | Dick Turpin, Highwayman | Focus Puller |
| 1956 | The Right Person | Focus Puller |
| 1956 | X the Unknown | Focus Puller |
| 1957 | Danger List | Focus Puller |
| 1957 | Quatermass 2 | Focus Puller |
| 1957 | The Curse of Frankenstein | Focus Puller |
| 1957 | The Steel Bayonet | Focus Puller |
| 1958 | A Clean Sweep | Focus Puller |
| 1958 | Dracula | Focus Puller |
| 1958 | Further Up the Creek | Focus Puller |
| 1958 | The Revenge of Frankenstein | Focus Puller |
| 1958 | The Snorkel | Focus Puller |
| 1959 | I Only Arsked! | Focus Puller |
| 1959 | Ten Seconds to Hell | Focus Puller |
| 1959 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Focus Puller |
| 1959 | The Man Who Could Cheat Death | Focus Puller |
| 1959 | The Mummy | Focus Puller |
| 1959 | The Ugly Duckling | Focus |
| 1959 | Yesterday's Enemy | Focus Puller |
| 1960 | Never Take Sweets from a Stranger | Focus Puller |
| 1960 | Taste of Fear | Camera: Second Unit |
| 1960 | The Stranglers of Bombay | Focus Puller |
| 1960 | The Two Faces of Dr Jeckyll | Focus Puller |
| 1961 | The Curse of the Werewolf | Focus Puller |
| 1961 | The Shadow of the Cat | Focus Puller |
| 1961 | The Terror of the Tongs | Focus Puller |
| 1961 | Watch it, Sailor | Focus Puller |
| 1962 | The Phantom of the Opera | Focus Puller |
| 1962 | The Pirates of Blood River | Focus Puller |
| 1963 | Cash on Demand | Focus Puller |
| 1963 | The Damned | Focus Puller |
| 1965 | The Brigand of Kandahar | Focus Puller |