Robert Hamer
Robert Hamer ( born March 31, 1911 in Kidderminster, West Midlands, † December 4, 1963 in London) was a British film director and screenwriter.
Life
The son of the actor Gerald Hamer published during his studies at the University of Cambridge own poems before he joined in 1934 as a clapper in the film industry. Four years later he was already working as an editor and was among other things, at the intersection of Alfred Hitchcock's Reef Pirates ( 1939) involved. In 1941 he began working for the London Ealing Studios.
His contribution to the screenplay for Dead of Night ( Dead of Night ) 1946 Locarno International Film Festival awarded the most interesting screenplay. As a director, he was twice nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival - 1949 bound for the nobility and in 1954 for The Strange ways of the Father Brown.