Robert Hamer

Robert Hamer

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

  • Popularity : 1.061
  • Known For : Directing
  • Birthday : 1911-03-31
  • Place of Birth : Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK
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Robert Hamer Movies

  • 1949
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    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    7.7 1949 HD

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  • 1949
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    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    7.7 1949 HD

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  • 1939
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    Jamaica Inn

    Jamaica Inn

    6.042 1939 HD

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  • 1945
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    Dead of Night

    Dead of Night

    7.2 1945 HD

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  • 1947
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    It Always Rains on Sunday

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    6.6 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    It Always Rains on Sunday

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    6.6 1947 HD

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  • 1960
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    School for Scoundrels

    School for Scoundrels

    6.9 1960 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Long Memory

    The Long Memory

    6.5 1953 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Long Memory

    The Long Memory

    6.5 1953 HD

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  • 1943
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    San Demetrio London

    San Demetrio London

    6.7 1943 HD

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  • 1945
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    Pink String and Sealing Wax

    Pink String and Sealing Wax

    6 1945 HD

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  • 1955
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    To Paris with Love

    To Paris with Love

    5 1955 HD

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  • 1954
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    Father Brown

    Father Brown

    6.2 1954 HD

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  • 1954
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    Father Brown

    Father Brown

    6.2 1954 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Scapegoat

    The Scapegoat

    6.8 1959 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Scapegoat

    The Scapegoat

    6.8 1959 HD

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  • 1943
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    San Demetrio London

    San Demetrio London

    6.7 1943 HD

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  • 1949
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    The Spider and the Fly

    The Spider and the Fly

    6.9 1949 HD

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  • 1952
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    His Excellency

    His Excellency

    6 1952 HD

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  • 1952
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    His Excellency

    His Excellency

    6 1952 HD

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  • 1945
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    Pink String and Sealing Wax

    Pink String and Sealing Wax

    6 1945 HD

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  • 1957
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    Bernard Shaw

    Bernard Shaw

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1964
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    A Jolly Bad Fellow

    A Jolly Bad Fellow

    5.5 1964 HD

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  • 1941
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    Turned Out Nice Again

    Turned Out Nice Again

    6.5 1941 HD

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  • 1942
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    The Foreman Went to France

    The Foreman Went to France

    6.2 1942 HD

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  • 1941
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    Ships with Wings

    Ships with Wings

    4 1941 HD

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  • 1955
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    Rowlandson's England

    Rowlandson's England

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1938
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    St. Martin's Lane

    St. Martin's Lane

    7.2 1938 HD

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  • 1940
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    French Communique

    French Communique

    1 1940 HD

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