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Jack Cardiff is a Actor, Director, Adaptation, Production Runner, Director of Photography and Cinematography British born on 18 september 1914 at Great Yarmouth (United-kingdom)
Jack Cardiff, OBE, BSC
(18 September 1914 – 22 April 2009) was a British cinematographer, director and photographer.
His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor to filmmaking in the 21st century. He was best known for his influential colour cinematography for directors such as Powell and Pressburger, Huston and Hitchcock.
In 2000 he was awarded an OBE and in 2001 he was awarded an Honorary Oscar for his contribution to the cinema.
Jack Cardiff's work is reviewed in detail in the documentary film: Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010).
Récompensé par deux Oscars, l'un en 1947 pour la photographie du Narcisse noir et l'autre en 2001 pour l'ensemble de son œuvre, il a également été nommé, en tant que directeur de la photographie, en 1956 pour Guerre et paix et en 1961 pour Fanny, et en 1960 comme réalisateur pour Amants et fils.
Jack Cardiff est mort en avril 2009 dans sa maison du Cambridgeshire à Ely, au sud de l'Angleterre, à l'âge de 94 ans.
(1985)
(Director of Photography)
(1977)
(Aerial Camera)
(1984)
(Director of Photography)
(1978)
(Director of Photography)
(1956)
(Director of Photography)
(1952)
(Director of Photography)
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 september 1914 at Great Yarmouth (United-kingdom)
Death 22 april 2009 (at 94 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Birth 18 september 1914 at Great Yarmouth (United-kingdom)
Death 22 april 2009 (at 94 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Jack Cardiff, OBE, BSC
(18 September 1914 – 22 April 2009) was a British cinematographer, director and photographer.
His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor to filmmaking in the 21st century. He was best known for his influential colour cinematography for directors such as Powell and Pressburger, Huston and Hitchcock.
In 2000 he was awarded an OBE and in 2001 he was awarded an Honorary Oscar for his contribution to the cinema.
Jack Cardiff's work is reviewed in detail in the documentary film: Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010).
Biography
Jack Cardiff a travaillé notamment avec Michael Powell, Alfred Hitchcock, Albert Lewin, Joseph Mankiewicz, King Vidor. Pionnier de l'utilisation du procédé Technicolor, il fut, en 1951, directeur de la photographie de L'Odyssée de l'African Queen de John Huston, avec Katharine Hepburn et Humphrey Bogart.Récompensé par deux Oscars, l'un en 1947 pour la photographie du Narcisse noir et l'autre en 2001 pour l'ensemble de son œuvre, il a également été nommé, en tant que directeur de la photographie, en 1956 pour Guerre et paix et en 1961 pour Fanny, et en 1960 comme réalisateur pour Amants et fils.
Jack Cardiff est mort en avril 2009 dans sa maison du Cambridgeshire à Ely, au sud de l'Angleterre, à l'âge de 94 ans.
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(1985)(Director of Photography)
(1977)(Aerial Camera)
(1984)(Director of Photography)
(1978)(Director of Photography)
(1956)(Director of Photography)
(1952)(Director of Photography)
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, 1h26Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Marlene Dietrich, Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas
Roles Self
Rating75%
En 2001, Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) est devenu le premier directeur de la photographie de l'histoire des Oscars à recevoir un Oscar d'honneur. Mais la première fois qu'il a serré la célèbre statuette dans sa main, c'était un demi-siècle plus tôt, lorsque son travail de caméra en Technicolor avait été récompensé pour le Narcisse noir de Powell et Pressburger. Au-delà de The African Queen de John Huston et de War and Peace de King Vidor, les films du duo créatif britannico-hongrois (The Red Shoes et A Matter of Life and Death également) garantissent l'immortalité au célèbre caméraman dont la carrière s'étend sur soixante-dix ans.
Tiptoes (1927)
Directed by Herbert Wilcox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Dorothy Gish, Will Rogers, Miles Mander, Jack Cardiff, Dennis Hoey
Rating56%
Tip Toes (Dorothy Gish) and her two partners Uncle Hen (Rogers) and Al (Nelson Keys) have a struggling music-hall act. When they go for auditions, theatre managers are keen on Tip Toes as a solo, but do not want the men. Tip Toes turns down offers to go it alone out of loyalty to her fellows. In deep financial trouble, they decide as a last throw of the dice to book in to a suite at a high-class hotel and put the story about that Tip Toes is a sophisticated heiress, while she tries to snag a wealthy gentleman. Tip Toes attracts the interest of a young peer, but the plans of the trio are constantly on the point of being undermined as Hen and Al get into a series of scrapes.
Directed by Denison Clift
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Biography, Historical, Romance
Actors Fay Compton, Gerald Ames, Ivan Samson, John Stuart, Harvey Braban, René Maupré
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The Mutations (1974)
, 1h32Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Bradford Harris, Julie Ege, Michael Dunn, Jill Haworth
Rating53%
A deranged genetic scientist abducts college students as human guinea pigs that he uses in his experiments in crossbreeding plants with humans. The failed experimental mutants are then given to a cruel circus freakshow owner who exploits them to the fullest. However, the mutants and the circus freaks will not be denied justice.
Penny Gold (1973)
Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors James Booth, Francesca Annis, Nicky Henson, Joss Ackland, Sue Lloyd, Joseph O'Conor
Rating52%
Dark of the Sun (1968)
, 1h40Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten, Kenneth More, André Morell, Calvin Lockhart
Rating67%
Sometime in the mid-1960s, mercenary Bruce Curry (Rod Taylor) is hired by Congolese President Ubi (Calvin Lockhart) supposedly to rescue the European residents of an isolated town about to be attacked by rebel Simbas in the Congo. But in reality his pressing mission is to retrieve diamonds, worth fifty million dollars, from a mine company's vault. Curry's subordinates include his friend Ruffo (Jim Brown) and alcoholic Doctor Wreid (Kenneth More). Reluctantly he also takes ex-Nazi Henlein (Peter Carsten) on the mission because he needs his military expertise and leadership skills.
The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
, 1h31Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Erotic, Thriller, Action, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Motocyclette, Road movies
Actors Alain Delon, Marianne Faithfull, Marius Goring, Catherine Jourdan, Jacques Marin, Jean Leduc
Rating53%
Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike – her symbol of freedom and escape –to visit Daniel, her lover in Heidelberg. En route, she indulges in psychedelic and erotic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men, before crashing into a truck at the end.
The Liquidator (1965)
, 1h45Directed by Jack Cardiff, Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St John, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Tomlinson, Akim Tamiroff
Rating59%
In 1944 during World War II, tank corps Sergeant "Boysie" Oakes stumbles and unwittingly shoots and kills two men attempting to assassinate British Intelligence Major Mostyn (Trevor Howard) in Paris. Mostyn mistakenly believes Oakes was lethal on purpose.
Young Cassidy (1965)
, 1h50Directed by John Ford, Jack Cardiff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Rod Taylor, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave, Edith Evans, Jack MacGowran
Rating64%
Set in 1911 and the growing protest against British rule in Ireland, young John Cassidy (Sean O'Casey) is a labourer by day and a pamphleteer by night. When the pamphlets he has written incite riots, Cassidy realizes he can do more for his people with the pen than with the sword. He writes a new play, The Plough and the Stars, which he submits to the Abbey Theatre (which had already rejected another of his plays, The Shadow of a Gunman), and is surprised when W.B. Yeats, the founder of the Abbey, accepts and produces his new play. The opening of the play causes the audience to riot, and he loses many friends; but he is undeterred and is soon acclaimed as Ireland's outstanding young playwright.
The Long Ships (1964)
, 2h6Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films set in the Viking Age
Actors Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Oskar Homolka, Gordon Jackson, Colin Blakely
Rating60%
The story centres on an immense golden bell named The Mother of Voices, which may or may not exist. Moorish king Aly Mansuh (Sidney Poitier) is convinced that it does. Having collected all the legendary material about it that he can, he plans to mount an expedition to search for it. When the shipwrecked Norseman, Rolfe (Richard Widmark), repeats the story of the bell in the marketplace, and hints that he knows its location, he is seized by Mansuh's men and brought in for questioning. Rolfe insists that he does not know and that the bell is only a myth. He manages to escape before the questioning continues under torture.
My Geisha (1962)
, 1h59Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Yves Montand, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Cummings, Yoko Tani, Tatsuo Saitō
Rating64%
Paul Robaix (Montand), a famous director, wants to shoot a film in Japan inspired by Madama Butterfly. His wife, an actress named Lucy Dell (MacLaine), has been the leading lady in all of his greatest films, and she is more famous. He feels that she overshadows him and he would like to achieve success independent of her. By choosing to film Madame Butterfly, he can select a different leading lady without hurting her feelings, because she, as a blue eyed, red headed woman, would not be suitable to play a Japanese woman. As a surprise, she visits him in Japan while he's searching for a leading lady. To surprise him further, she disguises herself as a geisha at a dinner party, planning to unveil her identity during the meal.
The Lion (1962)
, 1h36Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about lions, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors William Holden, Trevor Howard, Capucine, Pamela Franklin
Rating60%
Successful American lawyer Robert Hayward (William Holden) is in Kenya because his ex-wife Christine (Capucine) is having some problems with their eleven-year-old daughter Tina (Pamela Franklin), who has a great affinity with Africa, its customs and its wildlife. Tina spends much of her time in the company of the lion she raised from a cub. Christine has remarried and her new husband John Bullit (Trevor Howard), a former big-game hunter, now manages a large Kenyan animal preserve. Hayward and Bullit compete for the romantic affection of Christine and for the daughterly affection of Tina. The son of a local tribal chief sees Tina as a potential future wife, and his efforts to impress her prove to be disastrous.
Scent of Mystery (1960)
, 2h5Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin USA
Actors Denholm Elliott, Peter Lorre, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Lukas, Liam Redmond, Leo McKern
Rating55%
A mystery novelist, played by Denholm Elliott, discovers a plan to murder an American heiress, played by Elizabeth Taylor in an uncredited role, while on vacation in Spain. He enlists the help of a taxi driver, played by Peter Lorre, to travel across the Spanish countryside in order to thwart the crime. Some scenes were designed to highlight the Smell-O-Vision's capabilities. In one, wine casks fall off a wagon and roll down a hill, smashing against a wall, at which point a grape scent was released. Other scenes were accompanied by aromas that revealed key points to the audience. The assassin was identified by the smell of a smoking pipe, for example.
Sons and Lovers (1960)
, 1h43Directed by Jack Cardiff, Peter Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Trevor Howard, Dean Stockwell, Wendy Hiller, Mary Ure, Conrad Phillips, Donald Pleasence
Rating70%
A young man with artistic talent who lives in a close-knit, English coal-mining town during the early 20th century finds himself inhibited by his emotionally manipulative, domineering mother — a literary, psychological interpretation of the Oedipus story. Gertrude Morel, miserable in her marriage, puts her hope into her son, Paul. In her attempt to manipulate Paul's life she jealously attempts to prevent Paul from having a relationship with any woman. However, Paul goes to the city for a job and becomes enchanted with self-actualized and "liberated" feminist co-worker, Mrs. Clara Dawes, who is married. Paul and Clara become involved sexually and Clara realizes that Paul's emotional attachment, as with her own, lies with another person — in Paul's case, his mother. Gertrude learns of Paul's involvement with Clara, and she slips into a morose depression and physical sickness. Paul flees to his mother, to care for her and sit by her side. After his mother's death, Paul meets the girlfriend of his youth, Miriam, and tells her that because of his codependency with his mother he intends to live the rest of his life without any serious relationship with another woman — in essence fulfilling his mother's desire and objective.
Web of Evidence (1959)
, 1h30Directed by Jack Cardiff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee, Jean Kent, Moultrie Kelsall
Rating62%
A la fin des années 50, un jeune homme Paul Mathry (Van Johnson) débarque à Liverpool. Il vient des Etats Unis pour retrouver les traces de son père, mort héroïquement pendant la guerre d’après sa mère. Mais il apprend rapidement une fois à Liverpool que celui-ci est toujours vivant et qu’il est emprisonné depuis vingt ans pour meurtre !