Jack Cardiff, was a British cinematographer, film and television director, and photographer.
13 Facts About Jack Cardiff
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Jack Cardiff's career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor, to filmmaking more than half a century later.
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Jack Cardiff is best known for his influential color cinematography for directors such as Powell and Pressburger, John Huston and Alfred Hitchcock.
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Jack Cardiff's work is reviewed in the documentary film: Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff and Terry Johnson's stage play Prism.
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Jack Cardiff worked as an actor from an early age, both in the music hall and in a number of silent films: My Son, My Son, Billy's Rose, The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots and Tip Toes.
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In 1935, Jack Cardiff graduated to camera operator and occasional cinematographer, working mostly for London Films.
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Jack Cardiff was camera operator on the first film in Britain shot in Technicolor: Wings of the Morning.
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Jack Cardiff did a number of films on India where the British wanted to showcase the new capital city of Delhi.
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Jack Cardiff died on 22 April 2009, aged 94, the same day as Ken Annakin, with whom he had worked on The Fifth Musketeer.
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Jack Cardiff was survived by his wife and his four sons.
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Jack Cardiff was the camera operator and then cinematographer for 73 films, documentaries and TV series between 1935 and 2007.
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff was shown as part of the Great Yarmouth Arts Festival 2014 along with some of his photographs, often taken as preliminaries to lighting the films.
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Jack Cardiff's life was explored in the 2017 stage play Prism by Terry Johnson.