Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

1h 26m

Documentary

6.6

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)

Crew

Craig McCall

Director, Producer

Dan Roberts

Editor

Sean Broughton

Associate Producer

Mark Sayer-Wade

Music

Miles Glyn

Art Direction