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4 December 1963 (aged 52) London, England, UK. Education. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Occupation (s) Film director, screenwriter. Robert Hamer (31 March 1911 – 4 December 1963) was a British film director and screenwriter best known for the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets and the now acknowledged 1947 classic It Always Rains ...
Robert James Hamer was born in 1911 along with his twin sister Barbara, the son of Owen Dyke Hamer, a bank clerk, and his wife, Annie Grace Brickell. He was educated at Cambridge University where he wrote some poetry and was published in a collection 'Contemporaries and Their Maker', along with the spy Donald Maclean .
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Robert Hamer. Director: Kind Hearts and Coronets. Robert James Hamer was born in 1911 along with his twin sister Barbara, the son of Owen Dyke Hamer, a bank clerk, and his wife, Annie Grace Brickell. He was educated at Cambridge University where he wrote some poetry and was published in a collection 'Contemporaries and Their Maker', along with the spy Donald Maclean. Hamer's cinematic career began as a clapper boy at...
Robert Hamer (1911-63) was a versatile and innovative filmmaker who worked in various genres and styles, from horror to comedy. He is best known for Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), a classic black comedy with Alec Guinness, but he also made films such as Pink String and Sealing Wax, The Spider and the Fly, and The Man Who Could Cheat Death.
Robert Hamer. "British director, who, on the basis of three and a bit feature films at Ealing in the 1940s, has claims to being one of the distinctive auteurs of British postwar cinema. His signature, as Charles Barr has pointed out, is the mirror worlds played out in The Haunted Mirror episode of Dead of Night (1945), in which a world of dull ...
Robert Hamer was a British film director best remembered for his contributions to Ealing Studios’ classic period in the late 1940s and early 1950s. His most well-known work is Kind Hearts and Coronets , a black comedy that stands as one of the high points of British cinema.
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Jun 29, 2016 · Robert Hamer was a creative and influential director who made films like Kind Hearts and Coronets and It Always Rains on Sunday at Ealing Studios. He struggled with alcoholism and left the industry early, but his legacy deserves more recognition.
