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Robert Krasker is a Director of Photography, Editor and Cinematography Australien born on 21 august 1913 at Perth (Australie)

Robert Krasker

Robert Krasker
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Nationality Australie
Birth 21 august 1913 at Perth (Australie)
Death 16 august 1981 (at 67 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Robert Krasker (membre de la BSC), né le 13 août 1913 à Perth (Australie-Occidentale) et mort le 16 août 1981 à Londres (Angleterre), est un directeur de la photographie australien.

Biography

Après des études à Dresde (Allemagne) et Paris (France), Robert Krasker s'installe en Angleterre, à Londres, en 1932. Aux côtés du réalisateur et producteur Alexander Korda, ll débute en 1934 comme cadreur, exerçant à ce titre jusqu'en 1941. Il devient chef opérateur en 1942 et officie ainsi jusqu'en 1966, sur trente-neuf films au total, britanniques surtout. Il participe aussi à quelques films américains (ex. : Alexandre le Grand de Robert Rossen, 1956), un film italien (Senso de Luchino Visconti, 1954), un film irlandais (Quand se lève la lune de John Ford, 1957), et des coproductions (ex.
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Best films

El Cid (1961)
(Director of Photography)
Trapeze (1956)
(Director of Photography)
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
(Director of Photography)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
(Director of Photography)
The Third Man (1949)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Vincent Korda
Vincent Korda
(7 films)
John Laurie
John Laurie
(6 films)
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl
(2 films)
A. W. Watkins
A. W. Watkins
(7 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Krasker (40 films)

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Cameraman

The Trap
The Trap (1966)
, 1h46
Directed by Sidney Hayers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Rita Tushingham, Oliver Reed
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.5457253.5457253.5457253.5457253.545725
Fur trapper Jean La Bête (Oliver Reed) paddles his canoe through wild water towards the settlement in order to sell a load of furs.
The Heroes of Telemark, 2h11
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobsson, Michael Redgrave, Roy Dotrice, John Golightly
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.252923.252923.252923.252923.25292
The Norwegian resistance sabotage the Vemork Norsk Hydro plant in the town of Rjukan in the county of Telemark, Norway, which the Nazis are using to produce heavy water, which could be used in the manufacture of an Atomic bomb.
The Collector, 1h59
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore, Kenneth More, William Beckley
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74% 3.747363.747363.747363.747363.74736
Frederick Clegg (Terence Stamp) is a lonely, unbalanced young man who stalks, kidnaps, and imprisons a pretty, young art student, Miranda Grey (Samantha Eggar). One day after following her in his van, Frederick kidnaps and chloroforms Miranda, locking her in the windowless stone cellar that he has prepared with a bed, some furnishings, and an electric heater. When Frederick proclaims his love for Miranda, she fakes appendicitis as a ploy to escape, but is caught. Many weeks go by, and Miranda realizes just how unstable Frederick is, and that she will never leave alive.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire, 3h8
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Mel Ferrer
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.3474553.3474553.3474553.3474553.347455
In the winter of 180 A.D., the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (Guinness) fights to keep Germanic barbarians from invading his northern territories on the Danube frontier. His deputies are the Greek ex-slave Timonides (Mason), a closet Christian, and the stern and honest general Gaius Livius (Boyd). Livius has close connections with the imperial family, being the lover of Aurelius' philosopher daughter Lucilla (Loren) and a friend of her brother Commodus (Plummer). Nevertheless, he is amazed to hear that Aurelius wants to make him his heir.
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The Running Man, 1h43
Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Fernando Rey, Felix Aylmer, Eleanor Summerfield
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.248863.248863.248863.248863.24886
In Croydon, England, seemingly grieving Stella Black (Lee Remick) has just returned home from her husband's funeral. Apparently, he died in a gliding accident when the glider he had rented crashed into the sea, and his body was never recovered. In reality, she knows her husband Rex Black (Laurence Harvey) is still alive and has been in hiding at a seaside boarding house for three months under the assumed name of Erskine, a shoe salesman on vacation, between the time of his "death" and the funeral.
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Billy Budd
Billy Budd (1962)
, 2h3
Directed by Peter Ustinov
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Terence Stamp, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers, John Neville
Roles Director of Photography
Rating77% 3.8939853.8939853.8939853.8939853.893985
In the year 1797, the British naval vessel HMS Avenger (changed from the book; in early drafts it was Indomitable, later ones, Bellipotent) press gangs into service a crewman "according to the Rights of War" from the merchant ship The Rights of Man. The new crewman, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp), is considered naive by his shipmates, and they attempt to indoctrinate him in their cynicism. But Budd's steadfast optimism is impenetrable, as when he is asked to critique the horrible gruel the crew must eat, he offers "It's hot.
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Guns of Darkness, 1h43
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Actors David Niven, Leslie Caron, James Robertson Justice, David Opatoshu, Eleanor Summerfield, Ian Hunter
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0487553.0487553.0487553.0487553.048755
Caught in a South American country during a coup, a British couple (Niven and Caron) try and help the former President escape to the border.
El Cid
El Cid (1961)
, 3h4
Directed by Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page, John Fraser, Hurd Hatfield
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5961653.5961653.5961653.5961653.596165
General Ibn (pronounced Ben) Yusuf (Herbert Lom) of the Almoravid dynasty has summoned all the Emirs of Al-Andalus to North Africa and chastises them for their complacency in dealing with the infidels and reveals his plan for Islamic world domination.
The Criminal, 1h37
Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Prison films, Heist films
Actors Stanley Baker, Sam Wanamaker, Patrick Magee, Grégoire Aslan, Laurence Naismith, Margit Saad
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.393193.393193.393193.393193.39319
Johnny Bannion, un spécialiste des hold-up est sur le point d'être libéré de prison où il a mis au point un "grand coup" qui doit rapporter une somme exceptionnelle. L'idée lui a été suggérée par un autre prisonnier, Snipe, qui fait désormais partie de sa bande. Lors de sa sortie de prison, Bannion est accueilli par un de ses complices, Carter. L'opération se déroule normalement, mais le comportement de Bannion n'inspire guère confiance et un de ses "amis" le dénonce à la police. À nouveau incarcéré, Bannion apprend que sa maîtresse, Suzanne, a été enlevée et finit par comprendre que l'"ami" en question n'est autre que Carter, et que celui-ci cherche à utiliser Suzanne pour l'obliger à révéler l'endroit où il a planqué le magot.
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The Doctor's Dilemma, 1h39
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim, Robert Morley, Alec McCowen, Terence Alexander
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58% 2.9047452.9047452.9047452.9047452.904745
À la fin de l'époque victorienne à Londres, l'artiste-peintre Louis Dubedat est atteint de la tuberculose. Sa femme Jennifer, follement amoureuse d'un mari qu'elle idéalise, ne peut se résoudre à le voir disparaître. Elle va demander à l'éminent spécialiste Sir Colenso Ridgeon de tenter le tout pour le tout afin de le sauver. Le docteur a tellement de patients qu'il ne peut traiter en priorité que certains cas extrêmes et Jennifer le convainc (en même temps qu'il est séduit par son charme) en lui présentant des œuvres de son mari en qui le docteur reconnaît un grand artiste.
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Libel
Libel (1959)
, 1h40
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Robert Shaw, Anthony Dawson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.593633.593633.593633.593633.59363
While traveling in London, Jeffrey Buckenham (Massie), a Canadian Second World War veteran, sees Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon (Bogarde) on television leading a tour of his grand family home. Buckenham was held in a German POW camp with Loddon, and while watching him, becomes convinced that he is in fact another former POW, Frank Wellney, an actor (also played by Bogarde). Buckenham publicly announces his suspicion that Wellney murdered Loddon during an escape from the POW camp, and has taken the young baronet's place.
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The Quiet American, 2h
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Romance
Themes French war films, La colonisation française, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Politique, La guerre d'Indochine, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin, Giorgia Moll, Bruce Cabot, Yoko Tani
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.293863.293863.293863.293863.29386
In Saigon in 1952, as Vietnamese insurgents are delivering major strikes against the French colonial rulers, an innocent and enigmatic young American economist (Audie Murphy), who is working for an international aid organization, gets caught between the Communists and the colonialists as he tries to win the "hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese people. By promising marriage, he steals away a young Vietnamese woman (Giorgia Moll) from an embittered and cynical English newspaperman (Michael Redgrave), who retaliates by spreading the word that the American is actually covertly selling arms to the anti-Communists.
The Rising of the Moon, 1h21
Directed by John Ford
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Cyril Cusack, Noel Purcell, Denis O'Dea, Tyrone Power, John Cowley, Jack MacGowran
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2979453.2979453.2979453.2979453.297945
Police Inspector Dillon (Cyril Cusack) reluctantly sets out to see an old friend, Dan O'Flaherty (Noel Purcell). Along the way, he encounters Mickey J. (Jack MacGowran), a poitín maker who, fortunately for him, is not Dillon's target today. The inspector has the unfortunate duty of serving a warrant on O'Flaherty for striking Phelim O'Feeney (John Cowley) on the head. O'Flaherty refuses to pay the fine, as he feels he has done nothing wrong, nor will he allow O'Feeney to pay it for him. Instead, he heads off to prison.
Alexander the Great, 2h21
Directed by Robert Rossen, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Fredric March, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Hordern, Harry Andrews
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58% 2.9014852.9014852.9014852.9014852.901485
In the beginning of the film, Demosthenes is propagating for war to resist Philip II's takeover of Greek city-states.