Stephen Dade
Stephen Dade ( born August 13, 1909 in Beckenham, Greater London, † Spring 1975 in Shepway, Kent ) was a British cinematographer.
Life
Dade in 1927 started as a camera assistant at the Gaumont Studios in Shepherd's Bush and worked his way up over the course of the 30s for easy cameraman. In this role, Dade also photographed the Hitchcock thriller Secret Agent, Sabotage and young and innocent.
1940 Dade was appointed as director of photography. His career breakthrough achieved shortly after the war, when he. Quite a number of commercially successful, although artistically photographed often unsatisfactory melodramas and adventure substances in historical garb Above all, his color photography in some high class entertainment productions such as Christopher Columbus, the Knights of the Round Table and Zulu brought Dade reputation as a tech savvy, but not too experimental veterans and rounder one. In three other A- productions, Mogambo, Ivanhoe - The Black Knight and node Bhowani, Dade was used as a second-unit cameraman.
However, Dade, had to be content mainly with photography of second-and third-rate films, including thrillers and comedies for the suburban cinemas. His last theater work, the animal story Sandy the Seal, had the German 60s Stars Heinz Drache and Marianne Koch - both also in her last movie - in the lead roles.
Towards the end of his career Dade photographed for television (such as the late 60s several episodes to The Avengers and melon and the man with the suitcase ) before he retired at the beginning of the following decade into private life. Dade died in the county of Kent in the second quarter of 1975.