Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
05/05/2010
1h 26m
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.
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
Self – Interviewee
Alan Parker
Self – Interviewee
Thelma Schoonmaker
Self – Interviewee
Freddie Francis
Self – Interviewee
Raffaella De Laurentiis
Self – Interviewee
Richard Fleischer
Self – Interviewee
Peter Yates
Self – Interviewee
Kathleen Byron
Self – Interviewee
Christopher Challis
Self – Interviewee
Kevin McClory
Self – Interviewee
Ian Christie
Self – Interviewee
Moira Shearer
Self – Interviewee
Peter Handford
Self
George E. Turner
Self (archive footage)
Michel Ciment
Self (archive footage)
Michael Powell
Self (voice) (archive sound)
Marlene Dietrich
Countess Alexandra Vladinoff (archive footage)
Henry Hathaway
Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles
Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)
John Wayne
Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren
Self (archive footage)
Errol Flynn
Self (archive footage)
Leslie Caron
Fanny (archive footage)
Ava Gardner
Pandora Reynolds / Maria Vargas (archive footage)
John Huston
Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
Self (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
Self (archive footage)
Edmond O'Brien
Oscar Muldoon (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn
Natasha Rostova (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
Self (archive footage)
Laurence Olivier
Self (archive footage)
Niki Cardiff
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tony Curtis
Eric (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dustin Hoffman
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Deborah Kerr
Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
Craig McCall
Self - Interviewer: Jack Cardiff (uncredited)
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