Robert Hamer

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1911-03-31

Deathday 1963-12-04 (52 years old)

Place of Birth Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK

Robert Hamer

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

Known For

Director

1960
1959
The Scapegoat

as Director

1957
Bernard Shaw

as Director

1955
To Paris with Love

as Director

1954
Father Brown

as Director

1953
The Long Memory

as Director

1952
His Excellency

as Director

1949
1949
1945
Dead of Night

as Director

Writer

1964
1959
The Scapegoat

as Screenplay

1954
Father Brown

as Screenplay

1953
The Long Memory

as Screenplay

1952
His Excellency

as Screenplay

1949
1943

Editor

1941
1941
1940
1939
Jamaica Inn

as Editor

1938

Crew

1955
1945
Pink String and Sealing Wax

as Additional Writing

Producer

1943