>
Robert Hamer
Highest Rated: 100% School for Scoundrels (1960)
Lowest Rated: 52% Jamaica Inn (1939)
Birthday: Mar 31, 1911
Birthplace: Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK
A former editor with a flair for both darkly satirical comedy and even darker British film noir, Robert Hamer was a key figure in postwar British cinema. His sensitive talent was probably best showcased in the handsome and witty period-set comedy of murders, "Kind Hearts and Coronets" (1949) and the realistic yet superbly moody noir "It Always Rains on Sunday" (1947). Hamer was also responsible for what some critics consider the best segment in the classic horror anthology, "Dead of Night" (1945), in which a haunted mirror keeps displaying a murder committed long ago, and which begins to take possession of its new owner. Among other films, the adult and complexly plotted "The Spider and the Fly" (1949) and the witty and civilized detective comedy "Father Brown" (1954) stand out. Unfortunately, Hamer's highly promising career was derailed by an alcohol problem and he died at the age of 52.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 71% | School for Scoundrels | Director | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 52% | The Scapegoat | Director | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | To Paris, With Love | Director | - | 1955 |
| 63% | 59% | The Detective |
Director, Writer |
- | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | The Long Memory | Director | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | His Excellency | Director | - | 1951 |
| 100% | 94% | Kind Hearts and Coronets |
Director, Screenwriter |
$35.9K | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Spider and the Fly | Director | - | 1949 |
| 89% | 67% | It Always Rains on Sunday | Director | $7.2K | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Loves of Joanna Godden | Director | - | 1947 |
| 93% | 86% | Dead of Night | Director | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pink String and Sealing Wax | Director | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | San Demetrio, London | Screenwriter | - | 1943 |
| 52% | 35% | Jamaica Inn | Film Editing | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Sidewalks of London | Film Editing | - | 1938 |