Robert Lefebvre
Robert Lefebvre ( born March 19, 1907 as Robert Gérard Charles Le Febvre in Paris, † February 15, 1989 in Montfort l'Amaury ) was a French cinematographer.
Life and work
Lefebvre had worked in the chemical laboratory of the photo company Kodak before 1927 he went to the movie and started as a camera assistant. Three years later, he became the director of photography and photographed over the next four and a half decades, a large number of funds promising entertainment films, sometimes even with high artistic standards. To include the works of travel without hope, gold helmet and the case Maurizius to his best work.
Lefebvre proved otherwise as profiled image designer popular, though mainly ambitionsloser mass entertainment. As an experienced technician without artistic ambition, he worked mainly after 1945 still with important representatives of French cinema together, including the actor Gérard Philipe, Maurice Chevalier, Fernandel, Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin and Brigitte Bardot, and directors Louis Berger, Luis Buñuel and René Clair.
Mid-1960s, Lefebvre began rapid descent: In his last decade of work in Paris primarily adult film photographed mind quality first, often orchestrated by the relevant known for this genre director Max pecas.
Robert Lefebvre died, in his last year and a half decades of life, inactive, out of his mind.