Director

George Lowe

Camera

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 1653872

IMDb ID: nm0522943

Known for: Camera

Born: January 15, 1924

Died: March 20, 2013

Age: 89

Place of birth: Hastings, New Zealand

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1953 - 1958

Years active: 6

Average TMDB rating: 7.13

Wikidata: Q3101729

Also known as

Wallace George Lowe

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Director of Photography (1)Cinematography (1)

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Biography

Wallace George Lowe was born in Hastings, New Zealand in 1924. As a young man, he spent his holidays working as an assistant mountaineering guide in the Southern Alps. Here, he befriended famed New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary. Lowe joined Hillary on many mountaineering trips through the 1950s and was part of the team that helped Hillary climb Mt. Everest in 1953. Having a side interest in film and photography, Lowe directed a documentary of the 1953 trip entitled The Conquest of Everest. From 1955 to 1958, he was involved with the Commonwealth Antarctic Exhibition and worked on another documentary: The Crossing of Antarctica. In 1962, Lowe settled in the UK and became a school inspector, retiring in 1984. He died in 2013.

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