Robert Porter(I)
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
- Stunts
Entered UK film industry following army service during World War Two.
1946-7: assistant casting director, Shepperton Studios. Subsequently
stunt double and stand-in for actors including Tyrone Power, David
Niven, Sydney Chaplin, Errol Flynn and especially Stewart Granger, with
whom he had a seven-year contract. Received ACTT card as assistant
director, 1957. Directed behind-the-scenes coverage for television of
Disney live-action films, including Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
and Swiss Family Robinson (1960). Co-director of Oakhurst Film
Productions with Stanley Baker and Michael Deeley. Associate producer
with Embassy (subsequently Avco Embassy) in US. Later formed Robert
Porter Film Productions (UK).