Jack Cardiff is dead

He was considered a pioneer of the color film and was awarded with an Oscar: On Wednesday, the British cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff at the age of 94 years died.

 

London - He has his contribution to film history made - however, less as a director than as a cameraman: On Wednesday, Jack Cardiff after a short illness at the age of 94 years died. This, the British Film Institute (BFI) with. Cardiff was among other things, in "War and Peace" and "African Queen" behind the camera, he was considered a pioneer of Technicolor films.

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Jack Cardiff: Honorary Oscar in 2001

Cardiff came from a family actor and spent his childhood and youth on stages and film sets. With his parents, he traveled from theater to theater. For the work of the cameraman, he began to be interested in the hope that in the profession to exotic places to stay. It was after a training at the specialist for Technicolor color.

In 1947, Cardiff for his camera work in "Black Narcissus" with an Oscar award. Later, he was twice nominated for "War and Peace" 1956 and "Fanny" (1961), a romance with Leslie Caron. As a cinematographer, he also turned the classic "African Queen" (1951) with Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.

He directed the film "Sons and Lovers" (1960) became a key work of the so-called New Wave of British Films of the Fifties and Sixties. "Naked under leather", Cardiff motorcycle movie from the year 1968, with Marianne Faithfull in the lead role, is still on the other hand, tend his trash-factor because of known remains. As a cameraman managed to Cardiff in Germany broadcast series "Palace of Winds" (1984).

2001 Cardiff, up to old age worked as a cameraman, the honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. BFI director Amanda Nevill honored the filmmaker as a "legend." He was a cameraman world, proposing the technique of filming in Technicolor brought forward as a pioneer. "