Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

86 mins | Documentary | May 5, 2010

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.

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

86 mins | Documentary | May 5, 2010

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers UK Film Council, Modus Operandi Films
Original title Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Directors Craig McCall
Writers

Cast

Jack Cardiff

as Self

Martin Scorsese

as Self – Interviewee

Kirk Douglas

as Self – Interviewee

Lauren Bacall

as Self – Interviewee

Charlton Heston

as Self – Interviewee

Kim Hunter

as Self – Interviewee

John Mills

as Self – Interviewee

Alan Parker

as Self – Interviewee

Thelma Schoonmaker

as Self – Interviewee

Freddie Francis

as Self – Interviewee

Raffaella De Laurentiis

as Self – Interviewee

Richard Fleischer

as Self – Interviewee

Peter Yates

as Self – Interviewee

Kathleen Byron

as Self – Interviewee

Christopher Challis

as Self – Interviewee

Kevin McClory

as Self – Interviewee

Ian Christie

as Self – Interviewee

Moira Shearer

as Self – Interviewee

Peter Handford

as Self

George E. Turner

as Self (archive footage)

Michel Ciment

as Self (archive footage)

Michael Powell

as Self (voice) (archive sound)

Marlene Dietrich

as Countess Alexandra Vladinoff (archive footage)

Henry Hathaway

as Self (archive footage)

Orson Welles

as Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)

John Wayne

as Self (archive footage)

Sophia Loren

as Self (archive footage)

Errol Flynn

as Self (archive footage)

Leslie Caron

as Fanny (archive footage)

Ava Gardner

as Pandora Reynolds / Maria Vargas (archive footage)

John Huston

as Self (archive footage)

Humphrey Bogart

as Self (archive footage)

Katharine Hepburn

as Self (archive footage)

Edmond O'Brien

as Oscar Muldoon (archive footage)

Audrey Hepburn

as Natasha Rostova (archive footage)

Marilyn Monroe

as Self (archive footage)

Laurence Olivier

as Self (archive footage)

Niki Cardiff

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Tony Curtis

as Eric (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dustin Hoffman

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Deborah Kerr

as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)

Craig McCall

as Self - Interviewer: Jack Cardiff (uncredited)