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Günther Krampf is a Director of Photography and Cinematography Autrichien born on 8 february 1899 at Vienna (Austria)
Günther Krampf (1899–1950) was an Austrian cinematographer who later settled and worked in Britain. Krampf has been described as a "phantom of film history" because of his largely forgotten role working on a number of important films during the silent and early sound era. Only two of Krampf's films The Student of Prague (1926) and The Ghoul (1933) were expressionist, as he generally used a naturalistic style.
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Nationality Austria
Birth 8 february 1899 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 4 august 1950 (at 51 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Birth 8 february 1899 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 4 august 1950 (at 51 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Günther Krampf (1899–1950) was an Austrian cinematographer who later settled and worked in Britain. Krampf has been described as a "phantom of film history" because of his largely forgotten role working on a number of important films during the silent and early sound era. Only two of Krampf's films The Student of Prague (1926) and The Ghoul (1933) were expressionist, as he generally used a naturalistic style.
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The Franchise Affair (1951)
, 1h35Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Athene Seyler, John Bailey, Kenneth More
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
In a quiet English town, schoolgirl Betty Kane (Ann Stephens) claims that the owners of an isolated house, spinster Marion Sharpe (Dulcie Gray) and Marion's mother (Marjorie Fielding), kidnapped and beat her. The police believe Betty's story, but local lawyer Robert Blair (Michael Denison), a bachelor, is sceptical. Risking ostracism from the community, Blair quietly sets about proving the innocence of the two women.
Portrait of Clare (1950)
, 1h40Directed by Lance Comfort
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Margaret Johnston, Richard Todd, Robin Bailey, Ronald Howard, Jeremy Spenser, Molly Urquhart
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
As told in flashback to her granddaughter: the three marriages of Clare Hingston. These are: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister.
Fame Is the Spur (1947)
, 1h56Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Michael Redgrave, Rosamund John, Bernard Miles, David Tomlinson, Carla Lehmann, Hugh Burden
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
When a young man from a North country mill town (Michael Redgrave) commits to help the poverty stricken workers in his area, he takes as his Excalibur a sword passed down to him by his grandfather from the Battle of Peterloo, where it had been used against workers. As an idealistic champion of the oppressed, he rises to power as a Labour M.P., but is seduced by the trappings of power, and finds himself the type of politician he originally despised.
Frenzy (1946)
, 1h20Directed by Vernon Sewell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Derrick De Marney, Joan Greenwood, Frederick Valk, Sybille Binder, Valentine Dyall, Martin Miller
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
In the Paris of 1893, sculptor Charles Garrie (De Marney) enters into an illicit relationship with the married Christine Minetti (Greenwood). Christine's husband Anton (Egan) is also a sculptor, and mentally unstable. Anton finds out about Christine's affair and soon after she vanishes without trace. Although the police consider Anton the prime suspect in being involved in his wife's disappearance, they can find no incriminating evidence, nor any lead as to her whereabouts, alive or dead.
Madagascar Landing (1944)
, 30minutesDirected by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Paul Bonifas
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54%
Paul Clarus, a French actor (played by "Paul Clarus") is chatting with his fellow actors (the "Molière Players") as they put on their makeup before a performance. He reminisces about a very unpleasant Vichy official, the Chef de la Sûreté, (Paul Bonifas) that he knew when he was part of the Resistance on the island of Madagascar during the Second World War. The events on Madagascar are shown in flashback.
Warn That Man (1943)
, 1h22Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Thriller, Comedy
Actors Gordon Harker, Raymond Lovell, Finlay Currie, Philip Friend, Jean Kent, Carl Jaffe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Women Aren't Angels (1943)
, 1h25Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Alfred Drayton, Elizabeth Joyce Heron, Peggy Novak, Peter Gawthorne, Ralph Michael, John Stuart
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Music publishers Wilmer Popday and Alfred Bandle find themselves unwittingly embroiled in an espionage adventure, when they go away on manoeuvres with the Home Guard.
The Night Has Eyes (1942)
, 1h19Directed by Leslie Arliss
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Joyce Howard, Mary Clare, Dorothy Black, Amy Dalby
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Two young teachers travel to the Yorkshire Moors where their friend disappeared a year before. Before long they have encountered the man they believe to be her murderer.
Dead Man's Shoes (1940)
, 1h10Directed by Thomas Bentley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Leslie Banks, Joan Marion, Wilfrid Lawson, Judy Kelly, Nancy Price, Walter Hudd
Roles Director of Photography
Rating76%
Sailors Three (1940)
, 1h26Directed by Walter Forde
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Actors Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert, Carla Lehmann, Michael Wilding, James Hayter, Henry Hewitt
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54%
Three WWII British sailors on a drunken spree in a Brazilian neutral port mistake a German ship for their own and climb aboard. It turns out to be a pocket battleship, the Ludendorff, and to the credit of the Royal Navy, the trio manages to capture the ship and all the Germans on board.
On the Night of the Fire (1939)
, 1h34Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard, Romney Brent, Mary Clare, Henry Oscar, Frederick Leister
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Struggling Tyneside barber Will Kobling (Richardson) is in financial trouble. One evening, opportunistically and on impulse, he steals £100 from a local factory where a window has been accidentally left open. He hopes the money will represent a new start for him and wife Kit (Wynyard). His hopes are soon dashed when Kit confesses to being heavily in debt to local draper Pilleger (Henry Oscar), who has been pressuring her to pay up. Most of the stolen cash has to go on settling Kit's debt.
The Outsider (1939)
, 1h26Directed by Paul L. Stein
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors George Sanders, Mary Maguire, Barbara Blair, Frederick Leister, Peter Murray-Hill, Walter Hudd
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Anton Ragatzy is a infamous osteopath, known for his controversial methods of curing disability. Ragatzy uses a machine invented by himself which will either cure the patients permanently, or will leave them disabled forever.
Black Eyes (1939)
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Otto Kruger, Mary Maguire, Walter Rilla, John Wood, Jenny Laird, O. B. Clarence
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Paradise for Two (1937)
Directed by Thornton Freeland
Genres Comedy
Actors Jack Hulbert, Patricia Ellis, Googie Withers, Wylie Watson, Roland Culver, Finlay Currie
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
Directed by Thornton Freeland
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Elissa Landi, Gordon Harker, Basil Sydney, Hugh Williams, Athole Stewart
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%