Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Overview

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

Directed by Craig McCall

Top cast

Jack Cardiff

Self

Martin Scorsese

Self – Interviewee

Kirk Douglas

Self – Interviewee

Lauren Bacall

Self – Interviewee

Charlton Heston

Self – Interviewee

Kim Hunter

Self – Interviewee

John Mills

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Alan Parker

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Thelma Schoonmaker

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Freddie Francis

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Raffaella De Laurentiis

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Richard Fleischer

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Peter Yates

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Kathleen Byron

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Christopher Challis

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Kevin McClory

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Ian Christie

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Moira Shearer

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Peter Handford

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George E. Turner

Self (archive footage)

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