About Derrick Knight
Lived 1929 – 2022 (aged 93). Derrick Knight was a film director, film producer, writer and charity worker.
Derrick Knight (3 February 1929 – 28 December 2022) was a British film director and producer.
Early life Derrick Knight was born in Dorset on 3 February 1929 to Ninette (née Mollard) and Robert Knight. He was educated at Canford School and afterwards attended Oriel College, Oxford, where he was a part of the university film society.
Career Knight directed the 1966 film Traveling for a Living about the English folk group The Watersons.
Personal life In 1959, he married Brenda Henderson. Knight died on 28 December 2022, at the age of 93.
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British film director and producer (1929-2022)
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Derrick Knight died on 28 December 2022.
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Derrick Knight was a film director, film producer, writer and charity worker.
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