Robert Hamer1911 - 1963

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Director

Popularity

0.9

Famous

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert James Hamer (31 March 1911, Kidderminster, Worcestershire – 4 December 1963, London) was a British film director and screenwriter. He was the son of the actor Gerald Hamer (1886-1972). Hamer was won a scholarship to Cambridge University but was sent down (expelled) from Cambridge, and began his career in 1934 as a cutting room assistant and from 1935 worked as a film editor involved with such films as Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939) co-produced by Charles Laughton. At the end of the 1930s, he worked on documentaries for the GPO Film Unit. When his boss at the GPO Alberto Cavalcanti moved to Ealing Studios, Hamer was invited to join him there. He gained some experience as a director by substituting for colleagues and contributed the 'haunted mirror' sequence to Dead of Night (1945). He followed this with the three Ealing films under his own name for which he is best remembered: Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946), It Always Rains on Sunday (1947), both featuring Googie Withers, and the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), with Dennis Price and Alec Guinness. Hamer died of pneumonia at the age of 52 at St Thomas's Hospital in London. An alcoholic, who was homosexual in an era when it was taboo in the UK, Hamer's career "now looks like the most serious miscarriage of talent in the postwar British cinema", according to film critic David Thomson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Hamer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Credits

A Jolly Bad Fellow
A Jolly Bad Fellow

1964

Comedy • Crime

Writer

5.5
0.3
School for Scoundrels
School for Scoundrels

1960

Comedy

Director

6.9
1.1
The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat

1959

Crime • Mystery • Thriller

Director, Screenplay

6.8
0.5
Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw

1957

Documentary

Director

0.1
To Paris with Love
To Paris with Love

1955

Comedy • Romance

Director

5.2
0.5
Rowlandson's England
Rowlandson's England

1955

Documentary

Script

0
Father Brown
Father Brown

1954

Comedy • Crime • Mystery

Screenplay, Director

6.4
0.9
The Long Memory
The Long Memory

1953

Crime • Thriller

Director, Screenplay

6.6
0.3
His Excellency
His Excellency

1952

Comedy

Director, Screenplay

6
0.3
The Spider and the Fly
The Spider and the Fly

1949

Crime • Thriller

Director

6.8
0.2
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kind Hearts and Coronets

1949

Comedy • Crime

Director, Screenplay

7.7
1.5
It Always Rains on Sunday
It Always Rains on Sunday

1947

Crime • Drama

Director, Writer

6.6
1
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Pink String and Sealing Wax

1945

Crime • Drama • Thriller

Director, Additional Writing

6.3
0.7
Dead of Night
Dead of Night

1945

Horror • Thriller

Director

7.2
1.2
San Demetrio London
San Demetrio London

1943

Action • Drama • War

Producer, Writer

6.7
0.4
The Foreman Went to France
The Foreman Went to France

1942

Drama • War

Editor

6.6
0.3
Ships with Wings
Ships with Wings

1941

Drama • War

Editor

4
0.3
Turned Out Nice Again
Turned Out Nice Again

1941

Comedy • Music

Editor

6.5
0.2
French Communique
0.1
Jamaica Inn
Jamaica Inn

1939

Adventure • Crime • Thriller

Editor

6.1
1.5
St. Martin's Lane
St. Martin's Lane

1938

Comedy • Drama

Editor

7.1
1.3

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