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Drummond Drury, ASC, who photographed productions in England, the West Indies, South Africa, Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Canada and the United States, died January 24 in New York. He was 76 and had been an ASC member for 25 years.
Born in Newcastle in 1912 and educated in England, Drury served an apprenticeship with Associated British Picture Corporation at Elstree, London, from 1932 to 1939. There he worked for some of the leading European cinematographers, including Jack Cox, Gunther Krampf, Otto Kanturek, Otto Heller, Hone Glendenning, Bryan Langley and Derek Williams. Among the many early talkies he worked on as an assistant cameraman were the Alfred Hitchcock productions, The Skin Game and Number 17. In 1940 he became an operative cameraman on such productions as Ourselves Alone, Alias Bulldog Drummond, Housemaster, Picadilly Incident and Marigold.