FILM DIRECTOR

Jack Cardiff

1914 - 2009

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Jack Cardiff (18 September 1914 – 22 April 2009) was a British cinematographer, film and television director, and photographer. His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor, to filmmaking more than half a century later. He is best known for his influential colour cinematography for directors such as Powell and Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, Black Narcissus, and The Red Shoes), John Huston (The African Queen) and Alfred Hitchcock (Under Capricorn). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jack Cardiff has received more than 325,923 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jack Cardiff is the 893rd most popular film director (down from 783rd in 2019), the 3,054th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,763rd in 2019) and the 71st most popular British Film Director.

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  • 49.56

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

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  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jack Cardiff ranks 893 out of 2,041. Before him are Jean Grémillon, Régis Wargnier, Pyotr Chardynin, Luca Guadagnino, Giuseppe Amato, and Tadashi Imai. After him are Wayne Wang, Wanda Jakubowska, Percy Adlon, Catherine Hardwicke, Alexandre Volkoff, and Jack Bender.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Jack Cardiff ranks 239. Before him are Marcel Kint, Jijé, Victor Sen Yung, Jyoti Basu, Annemarie Selinko, and Krishan Chander. After him are Hermínio de Brito, Helen Johns, William Phillips, Adolf Urban, Orhan Kemal, and Sven Jacobsson. Among people deceased in 2009, Jack Cardiff ranks 213. Before him are Michel Leblond, Ron Silver, Elisabeth Söderström, Nizar Rayan, Alexis Argüello, and Willy Ronis. After him are Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, Reinhard Mohn, Lis Hartel, Otar Chiladze, Zena Marshall, and Hirotugu Akaike.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Jack Cardiff ranks 3,054 out of 8,785. Before him are Dorothy Garrod (1892), Frank Watson Dyson (1868), Jimmie Nicol (1939), Felicity Jones (1983), Roy Urquhart (1901), and Gladys Cooper (1888). After him are Richard Hakluyt (1552), Konstantinos Paspatis (1878), Jack Broughton (1703), Steve Marriott (1947), Edwin Flack (1873), and Willie Applegarth (1890).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Jack Cardiff ranks 71. Before him are Charles Crichton (1910), Michael Winner (1935), Jack Clayton (1921), Jonathan Nolan (1976), Martin McDonagh (1970), and Anthony Harvey (1930). After him are Benjamin Glazer (1887), Peter R. Hunt (1925), Tony Kaye (1952), Nick Park (1958), Roy Ward Baker (1916), and Mike Figgis (1948).

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Filmography

Rambo: First Blood Part II
Director
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
May 21o 19856.643 / 10
Conan the Destroyer
Director
Conan is commissioned by the evil queen Taramis to safely escort a teen princess and her powerful bodyguard to a far away castle to retrieve the magic Horn of Dagoth. Unknown to Conan, the queen plans to sacrifice the princess when she returns and inherit her kingdom after the bodyguard kills Conan. The queen's plans fail to take into consideration Conan's strength and cunning and the abilities of his sidekicks: the eccentric wizard Akiro, the warrior woman Zula, and the inept Malak. Together the hero and his allies must defeat both mortal and supernatural foes in this voyage to sword-and-sorcery land.
Jun 29o 19846.1 / 10
The African Queen
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At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Jan 7o 19527.3 / 10