Rudolph Cartier
Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Kacser, renamed himself in Germany to Rudolph Katscher; 17 April 1904 – 7 June 1994) was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC. He is best known for his 1950s collaborations with screenwriter Nigel Kneale, most notably the Quatermass serials and their 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
After studying architecture and then drama, Cartier began his career as a screenwriter and then film director in Berlin, working for UFA Studios. After a brief spell in the United States he moved to the United Kingdom in 1935. Initially failing to gain a foothold in the British film industry, he began working for BBC Television in the late 1930s (among other productions he was involved in the making of Rehearsal for a Drama, BBC 1939). The outbreak of war, however, meant that his contract was terminated; his television play The Dead Eye was stopped in the production stage. After the war, he occasionally worked for British films before he was again hired by the BBC in 1952. He soon became one of the public service broadcaster's leading directors and went on to produce and direct over 120 productions in the next 24 years, ending his television career with the play Loyalties in 1976.
Active in both dramatic programming and opera, Cartier won the equivalent of a BAFTA in 1957 for his work in the former, and one of his operatic productions was given an award at the 1962 Salzburg Festival. The British Film Institute's "Screenonline" website describes him as "a true pioneer of television", while the critic Peter Black once wrote that: "Nobody was within a mile of Rudolph Cartier in the trick of making a picture on a TV screen seem as wide and as deep as CinemaScope."
Fotos
Películas (50)
Cartier and Kneale in Conversation
2005 · Self (archive footage)
The Kneale Tapes
2003 · Self (archive footage)
On the Road to Hollywood
1982
Loyalties
1976 · Director
Recht auf Gewissen
1970 · Director
An Ideal Husband
1969 · Director
The Naked Sun
1969 · Director
Der spanische Bürgerkrieg
1969 · Director
The Triumph of Death
1968 · Director
The Fanatics
1968 · Director
The News-Benders
1968 · Director
Level Seven
1966 · Director
Alibi für James
1966 · Director
Lee Oswald: Assassin
1966 · Director, Adaptation
The July Plot
1964 · Director
Das Haus der Vergeltung
1964 · Director
Legende einer Liebe
1964 · Director, Writer
Der Kronanwalt
1962 · Director
Wuthering Heights
1962 · Director, Producer
Anna Karenina
1961 · Director, Producer
Adventure Story
1961 · Director, Producer
The Avenger
1960 · Writer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1958 · Director, Producer
Storm Over Jamaica
1958 · Director
Ordeal by Fire
1957 · Director, Producer
Gaslicht
1956 · Director
The Moment of Truth
1955 · Director, Producer
The Creature
1955 · Director, Producer
Nineteen Eighty-Four
1954 · Director, Producer
Wuthering Heights
1953 · Director, Producer
It Is Midnight, Dr. Schweitzer
1953 · Director, Writer
The Dybbuk
1952 · Director, Producer
Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
1951 · Producer
Corridor of Mirrors
1948 · Producer, Screenplay
The Man from Morocco
1945 · Story
Liebe auf Bretteln
1935 · Director
Invisible Opponent
1933 · Director
The Oil Sharks
1933 · Director
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
1932 · Director
A Shot at Dawn
1932 · Writer
The Man with the Claw
1931 · Writer
Trapeze
1931 · Writer
The Squeeker
1931 · Screenplay
Express 13
1931 · Writer
Perpetrator Wanted
1931 · Screenplay
The Shot in the Talker Studio
1930 · Writer
The Tiger Murder Case
1930 · Writer
Im Prater blühn wieder die Bäume
1929 · Writer
Die Schmugglerbraut von Mallorca
1929 · Writer
Tales from the Vienna Woods
1928 · Writer
Series (16)
Fall of Eagles
1974 · Director
Late Night Horror
1968 · Director
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Director, Script, Adaptation
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Director
Out of the Unknown
1965 · Director
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Director
Theatre 625
1964 · Director
Suspense
1962 · Director, Producer
Studio 4
1962 · Producer, Adaptation
Z-Cars
1962 · Director
Maigret
1960 · Director
Sunday-Night Play
1960 · Director
Quatermass and the Pit
1958 · Producer, Director
Quatermass II
1955 · Director, Producer
The Quatermass Experiment
1953 · Director, Producer
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · Director