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Robert Hamer (1911–1963)

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Robert Hamer was born in 1911, the son of the Welsh character actor Gerald Hamer (1886-1972). He was educated at Cambridge University where he wrote some poetry and was published in a collection 'Contemporaries and Their Maker', along with the spy Donald Maclean. Hamer's cinematic career began as a clapper boy at London Films in 1934... See full bio »

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in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK

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(age 52) in London, England, UK
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1960 School for Scoundrels
 
1959 The Scapegoat
 
1955 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
– The Green of the Year (1955)
– A Month in the Country (1955)
 
1955 To Paris with Love
 
1954 The Detective
 
1953 The Long Memory
 
1952 His Excellency
 
1949 The Spider and the Fly
 
1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets
 
1947 It Always Rains on Sunday
 
1947 The Loves of Joanna Godden (uncredited)
 
1945 Pink String and Sealing Wax
 
1945 Dead of Night (segment "The Haunted Mirror")
 
1943 San Demetrio London (completed film - uncredited)
 
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1964 They All Died Laughing
 
1963 55 Days at Peking (additional dialogue)
 
1959 The Scapegoat (screenplay)
 
1955 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
– The Green of the Year (1955) (adaptation)
 
1955 Rowlandson's England (documentary short)
 
1954 The Detective (screenplay)
 
1953 The Long Memory (screenplay)
 
1952 His Excellency
 
1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets (screenplay)
 
1947 It Always Rains on Sunday (screenplay)
 
1945 Pink String and Sealing Wax (script contribution)
 
1943 San Demetrio London (screenplay)
 
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1944 While Nero Fiddled (associate producer)
 
1943 San Demetrio London (associate producer)
 
1943 My Learned Friend (associate producer)
 
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1944 While Nero Fiddled (lyrics: "Caesar's Wife" - uncredited, "I'm a Fool About Love" - uncredited, "You Never Can Tell" - uncredited)
 

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Jamaica Inn -- In Cornwall, around 1800, a young woman discovers that she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit. Kind Hearts and Coronets -- A distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
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(1935) He wrote for the revue, "This World Is Ours," at the Gate Theatre Studio in London, England with Hermione Gingold, Charlotte Leigh, Hedley Briggs, Tony Forwood, Michael Anthony, Googie Withers, Peter Borrett, and Rosalind Iden in the cast. Norman Marshall was director. Hedley Briggs was designer... See more »

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Was once married to the sister of fellow-director Seth Holt. See more »

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