Search results
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 .
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 James Hamer was born on 31 March 1911 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. After being sent down from Cambridge, he began his career in films as a cutting room assistant for Gaumont-British studios in 1934. A year later he joined London Films at Denham, where Alexander Korda had attracted a number of European filmmakers to England ...
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.
Jun 29, 2016 · But, like most directors, Hamer had his demons. Just before her death in 2011 Withers was interviewed by BBC Radio 4’s Film Programme and discussed her thoughts on Hamer, “Robert Hamer was a very good director… he was a funny man, and although he made wonderful films he was a very unhappy man and he was a drunk.
