Walter J. Harvey
Walter James Harvey, in Germany Walter Harvey -Pape, otherwise James or Jimmy Harvey ( born February 9, 1903 in Walsingham, Norfolk, † 1979 in London, England ) was a British cinematographer.
Life
The older brother of film star Lilian Harvey grew up with his sister in Germany and Switzerland, and gained his first experience in 1921 in the laboratories of the Berlin Aafa studios. The following year, Walter James Harvey joined the Decla - Bioscope in Neubabelsberg. By the end of 1927, he worked as an assistant significant cameramen as Karl Freund, Franz planners and Carl Hoffmann. His debut as co- director of photography took place in the fall of 1926 on the side of the famous Fritz Arno Wagner colleagues. The following year, Harvey, Walter Harvey -Pape called in Germany served in three other German productions of lesser importance among colleagues Karl Vass and Eduard Hoesch.
Established since 1928 in London, the German Ewald André Dupont director and producer signed him as a camera assistant. In this role, Harvey worked 1929 U.S. cameraman Charles Rosher in the late silent film The Vagabond Queen ( The Vagabond Queen) to. With the dawn of the talkie era Harvey also received in his native England ( production company GDP) orders as director of photography, but it acted in the films he photographs almost continuously around cheaply made mass produced.
1941 required the War Department Walter Harvey, and he turned (among other things for the British Admiralty ) a series of educational and promotional films.
In 1946 he returned to feature film, from 1950 Walter Harvey worked for a small production company Hammer Films, but only after his departure (1956 ) in their important phase with the production should occur afterwards famous horror movies. With the later Hammer director Terence Fisher Star Walter Harvey worked from 1951 to 1954 on a regular basis. In the first two postwar decades, Harvey was a reliable photographer of cheap produced B- movies:, these were mostly around quite quickly made detective novels and thrillers for a more challenging poor audience.
Walter Harvey's career sounded in the 60s with a number of television productions, including the series The Cheaters, Simon Templar, Gideon 's Way, The Baron ( The Baron ) and Richard the Lionheart ( Richard the Lionheart ). His career, he decided at the end of the decade with the second-unit photography in some episodes of the legendary spy series The Avengers and melon. After that trace of him. He died in London in 1979.