Robert Day worked his way up from clapper boy to camera operator to full-fledged lensman in his native England before giving directing a shot in the mid-1950s. His first film as director, the black-comic _The Green Man , etc.
Older brother of Ernest Day.
Interviewed in Tom Weaver s book "Attack of the Monster Movie Makers" (McFarland & Co., 1994).
Father of Robert Day Jr. and Roberta Jane Simons (nee Day).
His wife Dorothy Provine was a supporting actress who appeared in movies like Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and The Great Race and did much TV work in the 1960s. She retired from the screen after their marriage.
Grandfather of Nicholas Simons and Philip Simons.
[reflecting on his career] Well, one is never really happy, one always,wants to do better. I would like to do more good movies and good,stories--I would like to read something I want to do, a good story.
They have to use their imaginations instead. .
