Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
6.742
86 minutes
5/5/2010
Overview
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 List
Jack Cardiff
as Self
Martin Scorsese
as Self – Interviewee
Kirk Douglas
as Self – Interviewee
Lauren Bacall
as Self – Interviewee
Charlton Heston
as Self – Interviewee
Kim Hunter
as Self – Interviewee
John Mills
as Self – Interviewee
Alan Parker
as Self – Interviewee
Thelma Schoonmaker
as Self – Interviewee
Freddie Francis
as Self – Interviewee
Raffaella De Laurentiis
as Self – Interviewee
Richard Fleischer
as Self – Interviewee
Peter Yates
as Self – Interviewee
Kathleen Byron
as Self – Interviewee
Christopher Challis
as Self – Interviewee
Kevin McClory
as Self – Interviewee
Ian Christie
as Self – Interviewee
Moira Shearer
as Self – Interviewee
Peter Handford
as Self
George E. Turner
as Self (archive footage)
Michel Ciment
as Self (archive footage)
Michael Powell
as Self (voice) (archive sound)
Marlene Dietrich
as Countess Alexandra Vladinoff (archive footage)
Henry Hathaway
as Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles
as Genghis Khan / Bayan (archive footage)
John Wayne
as Self (archive footage)
Sophia Loren
as Self (archive footage)
Errol Flynn
as Self (archive footage)
Leslie Caron
as Fanny (archive footage)
Ava Gardner
as Pandora Reynolds / Maria Vargas (archive footage)
John Huston
as Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
as Self (archive footage)
Katharine Hepburn
as Self (archive footage)
Edmond O'Brien
as Oscar Muldoon (archive footage)
Audrey Hepburn
as Natasha Rostova (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe
as Self (archive footage)
Laurence Olivier
as Self (archive footage)
Niki Cardiff
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tony Curtis
as Eric (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dustin Hoffman
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Deborah Kerr
as Sister Clodagh (archive footage) (uncredited)
Craig McCall
as Self - Interviewer: Jack Cardiff (uncredited)