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Wilkie Cooper is a Director of Photography and Cinematography British born on 19 october 1911 at London (United-kingdom)
Douglas Ralph « Wilkie » Cooper, né le 19 octobre 1911 à Londres (Angleterre), mort le 15 décembre 2001 à Worthing (Sussex de l'Ouest, Angleterre), est un directeur de la photographie anglais, membre de la BSC.
Pour la télévision, Wilkie Cooper est directeur de la photographie sur six épisodes, diffusés en 1967 et 1968, de la série britannique Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir (détails : voir la filmographie qui suit).
Il était l'époux de l'actrice anglaise Peggy Bryan (1916-1996).
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Wilkie Cooper
Birth name Douglas Ralph Cooper
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 october 1911 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 15 december 2001 (at 90 years) at Worthing (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 19 october 1911 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 15 december 2001 (at 90 years) at Worthing (United-kingdom)
Biography
Comme directeur de la photographie, Wilkie Cooper débute au cinéma en 1936. Hormis six films comme cadreur de 1937 à 1941, il poursuit cette carrière jusqu'en 1971, année où il se retire. En qualité de chef-opérateur, il contribue au total à soixante-douze films, britanniques (majoritairement) ou américains — plus quelques coproductions —. Il travaille notamment à plusieurs reprises aux côtés du concepteur d'effets spéciaux Ray Harryhausen, sur des films fantastiques, tels Le Septième Voyage de Sinbad (1958) de Nathan Juran ou Jason et les Argonautes (1963) de Don Chaffey. Parmi les autres réalisateurs avec lesquels il collabore, mentionnons Alberto Cavalcanti, Lewis Gilbert, Sidney Gilliat, Alfred Hitchcock (un seul film en 1950, Le Grand Alibi) et Frank Launder, entre autres.Pour la télévision, Wilkie Cooper est directeur de la photographie sur six épisodes, diffusés en 1967 et 1968, de la série britannique Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir (détails : voir la filmographie qui suit).
Il était l'époux de l'actrice anglaise Peggy Bryan (1916-1996).
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Please Sir! (1971)
, 1h40Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Mr. Hedges, the somewhat naive and idealistic teacher of the rebellious Class 5C, lobbies to have them allowed on the school camping trip despite much precedent to the contrary. Once on the camping trip Mr. Hedges pursues Penny Wheeler, the local barmaid, and the class indulge in their usual activities.
Land Raiders (1969)
, 1h41Directed by Nathan Juran
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Telly Savalas, Arlene Dahl, George Maharis, Paul Picerni, George Coulouris, Janet Landgard
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53%
Vince Carden's hatred for Indians has caused an estrangement from his brother Paul and disappointment from wife Martha. A wagon train joined by Paul is attacked by braves in retaliation for a raid by Vince, and the only survivor besides Paul is a woman, Kate Mayfield, returning home from her education back East.
Run Wild, Run Free (1969)
, 1h40Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, Medical-themed films, Films about horses, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Children's films
Actors John Mills, Mark Lester, Gordon Jackson, Fiona Fullerton, Sylvia Syms, Bernard Miles
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
"Philip (Mark Lester) is a troubled autistic 10-year-old boy who has been fleeing the confines of his family's home since babyhood. Like some wild animal, Philip refuses to be penned up. Even more frustrating for his devoted mother and more irritable father, Philip has refused to speak since the age of three. Run Wild, Run Free (1969), directed by Richard C. Sarafian, is occasionally graced with experimental, art film touches, as when, at one point the internal thoughts of Philip's mother (Sylvia Syms) describing her fatigue and inability to love her son can be heard as voice-over as they drive to a therapist appointment.
Hammerhead (1968)
, 1h39Directed by David Miller
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Spy, Horror
Themes Spy films
Actors Vince Edwards, Judy Geeson, Peter Vaughan, Diana Dors, Michael Bates, Beverly Adams
Roles Director of Photography
Rating51%
British intelligence asks a soldier of fortune, Charles Hood, to go to Portugal and help stop an international criminal mastermind called Hammerhead who plans to steal a secret report on nuclear defense.
One Million Years B.C. (1966)
, 1h40Directed by Ray Harryhausen, Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Akoba (Robert Brown) leads a hunting party into the hills to search for prey. One member of the tribe traps a warthog in a pit, and then Akoba's son Tumak (John Richardson) kills it. The tribe brings it home for dinner and Tumak is later banished to the harsh desert because of a fight over a piece of meat with Akoba. After surviving many dangers such as a giant iguana, ape men, Apatosaurus and a giant spider, he collapses on a remote beach, where he is spotted by "Loana the Fair One" (Raquel Welch) and her fellow fisherwomen of the Shell tribe. They are about to help him when an Archelon (which is three times the size of the actual prehistoric Archelon) makes its way to the beach. Men of the Shell tribe arrive and drive it back into the sea. Tumak is taken to their village, where Loana tends to him. Scenes follow emphasising that the Shell tribe is more advanced and more civilized than the Rock tribe. They have cave paintings, music, delicate jewellery made from shells, agriculture, and rudimentary language – all things Tumak seems to have never before encountered.
First Men in the Moon (1964)
, 1h43Directed by Ray Harryhausen, Nathan Juran
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Films based on science fiction novels, Alternate history films, Space opera, Sur la Lune, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Lionel Jeffries, Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Miles Malleson, Norman Bird, Hugh McDermott
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
In 1964, the United Nations (UN) has launched a rocket flight to the Moon. A multi-national group of astronauts in the UN spacecraft land on the Moon, believing themselves to be the first lunar explorers. They discover a British Union Jack on the surface and a note naming Katherine Callender, claiming the Moon for Queen Victoria. Attempting to trace Callender, UN authorities find she has died, but find her husband Arnold Bedford now an old man in an old people's home. The nursing home staff do not let him watch television reports of the expedition because, according to the matron, it "excites him", dismissing his claims to have been on the Moon as insane delusion. The UN representatives question him about the Moon and he tells them his story. The rest of the film, as a flashback, shows what Bedford and Professor Cavor did in the 1890s.
Man in the Middle (1964)
, 1h34Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Actors Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan, Trevor Howard, Keenan Wynn, Sam Wanamaker
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
In the midst of World War II, Lieut. Col. Barney Adams’s superiors call on him to defend troubled US army Lieutenant Winston who has confessed to murdering a British non-commissioned officer. Military court officials want the cleanest possible trial for the lieutenant. They believe that Liet. Col. Adams, a war hero and distinguished lawyer, is the best man for the job. But when Adams begins to investigate the murder, he finds that this seemingly open-and-shut case is actually much more complicated. Before long he is absorbed in a dramatic struggle for a fair trial against the most overwhelming odds.
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
, 1h45Directed by Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films based on mythology, Poésie, Transport films, Films about dragons, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Adaptation d'un poème, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Todd Armstrong, Nancy Kovack, Honor Blackman, Gary Raymond, Laurence Naismith, Nigel Green
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72%
Pelias (Douglas Wilmer), misinterpreting the prophecy given to him by the god Zeus (Niall MacGinnis), usurps the throne of Thessaly by killing King Aristo and most of his family. The infant Jason is spirited out by one of Aristo's soldiers. Pelias encounters one of the king's daughters, Briseis (Davinia Taylor), seeking sanctuary in the temple of the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman) and slays her. Because the murder has profaned her temple, the angry Hera becomes Jason's protector. She, disguised as the high Priestess, warns Pelias to beware of a man wearing one sandal.
The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
, 1h22Directed by Richard Lester
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Sur la Lune, Political films, Space opera, Sur la Lune
Actors Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Cribbins, Ron Moody, Terry-Thomas, David Kossoff, June Ritchie
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Financial disaster looms for Grand Fenwick when the current vintage of its only export, wine, starts exploding in would-be consumers' faces. Prime Minister Mountjoy (Ron Moody) decides to ask the United States for a loan, ostensibly to fund its entry in the race to the Moon, but actually to save the duchy (and install modern plumbing so he can have a hot bath). The devious politician knows that the Americans will not believe him, but will consider the half million dollars he is asking for to be cheap propaganda supporting their hollow call for international co-operation in space. He is delighted when they send him double the amount as an outright gift. The Soviets, not wishing to be one-upped by their Cold War rivals, deliver an obsolete rocket. Mountjoy asks resident scientist Professor Kokintz (David Kosoff) to arrange a small explosion during the "launch" of their lunar rocket to make it look like they have actually spent the money as intended.
Maniac (1963)
, 1h26Directed by Michael Carreras
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime, Romance
Actors Kerwin Mathews, Donald Houston, Nadia Gray, Liliane Brousse, George Pastell, Norman Bird
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
The story tells of vacationing American artist Jeff Farrell who becomes romantically involved with an older woman named Eve Beynat, in southern France, while harboring some attraction for her teenage stepdaughter Annette. Eve's husband/Annette's father Georges is in an asylum for, four years ago, using a blowtorch to kill a man who had raped Annette. Believing it will help make Eve his for life, Jeff agrees to assist her in springing Georges from the asylum. Of course, Eve has a completely different agenda in mind . . .
The Amorous Prawn (1962)
, 1h29Directed by Anthony Kimmins
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Films based on plays
Actors Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Robert Beatty, Liz Fraser
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
General Fitzadam receives his final posting in the remote Scottish Highlands, where his wife decides to run their residence as a hotel for wealthy Americans.
Mysterious Island (1961)
, 1h41Directed by Ray Harryhausen, Cy Endfield
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Volcanisme, Pirate films, Films based on science fiction novels, Giant monster films, Political films, Films about volcanoes, Disaster films
Actors Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom, Percy Herbert
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
In 1865 during the American Civil War, a massive storm sweeps through a Confederate prison camp. Union soldiers Cyrus Harding (Michael Craig), Herbert Brown (Michael Callan) and Neb (Dan Jackson), are planning an escape via a tethered gas balloon. When a new prisoner, Union war correspondent Gideon Spillet (Gary Merrill), is brought into their cell, they knock out the guard and escape from the prison house. Once they arrive at the balloon, they drag one of the Confederate guards named Pencroft (Percy Herbert) aboard. After he explains that he knows how to pilot the balloon, they let him join the group.
The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
, 1h40Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Kerwin Mathews, June Thorburn, Basil Sydney, Lee Patterson, Sherry Alberoni, Grégoire Aslan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Gulliver, naufragé d'un navire coulé par la tempête, aborde les plages de Lilliput. Géant au pays des Lilliputiens, Gulliver débarque dans un royaume où la guerre fait rage.
Subway in the Sky (1959)
, 1h27Directed by Muriel Box
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef, Albert Lieven, Cec Linder, Katherine Kath, Carl Jaffe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Baxter Grant, an American soldier in West Berlin, deserts and goes on the run when faced with false drug trafficking and murder charges. He takes shelter with cabaret singer Lilli Hoffman, who he manages to persuade to help prove his innocence.
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
Roles Director of Photography
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 !