List of films Jimmy Snow is known to have worked on.
Like many others who worked behind the scenes, Jimmy was not credited at the end of the films that he had contributed to – with two noticeable exceptions: The Battle of the River Plate and The Seekers aka Land of Fury.
Compiled by Granddaughter Brigitte, she has added the category of work for which he is credited on the British Film Institute [BFI] database.
The Films
1936 – Things to Come aka The Shape of Things to Come
1937 – Elephant Boy
1938 – The Drum
1940 – The Thief of Bagdad
1941 – Forty Ninth Parallel : One of Our Aircraft is Missing : Target for Tonight : Costal Command
1942 – The Day Will Dawn : In Which We Serve
1943 – The Gentle Sex : We Dive at Dawn : The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp : School for Danger
1944 – This Happy Bread : The Way Ahead : Western Approaches
1945 – Journey Together [Special Effects Assistant] : Caesar and Cleopatra
1946 – The Way to the Stars : A Matter of Life and Death : Black Narcissus : Odd Man Out : Secret Flight aka School for Secrets : Green for Danger : Great Expectations
1947 – Miranda : Vice Versa : The October Man [Stage Effects]
1948 – Hamlet [Special Processes] : Quartet [Models] : Oliver Twist : The Red Shoes : Blanche Fury [Special Effects] : Escape [Special Stage Effects] : Scott of the Antarctic
1949 – The Rocking Horse Winner : Madness of the Heart [Stage Effects] : Blue Lagoon : Trottie True : The Perfect Woman [Stage Effects] : The History of Mr Polly [Special Effects]
1950 – The Golden Salamander [Models] : The Blue Lamp : The Clouded Yellow : Morning Departure : Trio
1951 – Appointment with Venus : Hotel Sahara [Model Maker] : Highly Dangerous [Special Effects] : High Treason [Special Effects] : They Were Not Divided : No Highway : White Corridors : Encore [Special Effects]
1952 – The Card : The Net : The Sound Barrier : The Planters Wife [Special Effects] : The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men
1953 – The Long Memory [Special Effects] : The Cruel Sea : Trouble in Store : The Malta Story
1954 – Genevieve : The Million Pound Note : Hell Below Zero : The Purple Plain : The Sea Shall Not Have Them : The Seekers aka Land of Fury [Special Effects]: Doctor in the House
1955 – An Alligator Named Daisy [Models] : Lost aka Tears for Simon : Above us the Waves : Simba : Doctor at Sea
1956 – Up in the World : Value for Money : The Black Tent [Models] : Battle of the River Plate [Special Effects] : A Town Like Alice : Checkpoint : Ill met by Moonlight : House of Secrets aka Triple Deception : Reach for the Sky : Tiger in the Smoke : Jacqueline
1957 – The Prince and the Showgirl aka The Sleeping Prince : Campbell’s Kingdom : Hell Drivers : High Tide at Noon
1958 – The One That Got Away : A Night to Remember : The Big Money : The Square Peg : The Captains Table : Operation Amsterdam
1959 – Tiger Bay
1960 – The Man in the Moon : Sink the Bismark
1962 – Dr No
1963 – Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow : The Iron Maiden aka Swingin’ Maiden [Model Making] : A Stitch in Time : From Russia With Love [Special Effects Technician]
1964 – Guns at Batasi : Mary Poppins : Goldfinger
1965 – True as a Turtle [Special Effects] : The Early Bird : Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
1966 – The Fighting Prince of Donegal, Thunderball [Special Effects Technician]
1967 – You Only Live Twice [Special Effects Assistant]
1968 – Dracula Has Risen from the Grave [Special Effects]
1969 – Destiny of a Spy : Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Models] : The Battle of Britain : Carry On Camping : On her Majesty’s Secret Service
1970 – Mosquito Squadron
1971 – Carry on Loving [Special Effects] : Diamonds are Forever
1973 – Live and Let Die
Also: one of the Quatermass films but we are unsure which one, and he would have worked on several more of the Carry On’s.