Jack Hildyard

Jack Hildyard

出生 : 1908-03-17, London, England

死亡 : 1990-09-05

略歴

Jack Hildyard (17 March 1908 – 5 September 1990) was a British cinematographer. He made several films with David Lean, including The Sound Barrier (1952), Hobson's Choice (1954), and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

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Jack Hildyard

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The Making of 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'
Self (archive footage)
Florence Nightingale
Director of Photography
This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.
Lion of the Desert
Director of Photography
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
ワイルド・ギース
Director of Photography
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
Emily
Director of Photography
Evocative of the Roaring Twenties, "Emily" (Aka "The Awakening of Emily") is an erotic coming-of-age film featuring meticulous period detail and music. The sharp class distinctions of British society are blurred by the universal nature of sexual desire.
The Message
Director of Photography
In sixth century Mecca, Prophet Mohamed receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Mohamed is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Mohamed's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.
The Message
Cinematography
Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.
Mousey
Director of Photography
A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife.
The Beast Must Die
Director of Photography
Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.
Mafia Junction
Director of Photography
Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns out that Cliff has bigger plans than just to bust bad guys.
トパーズ
Director of Photography
緊迫する東西情勢の中、キューバにソ連製のミサイルが運び込まれるという情報がもたらされた。米仏の情報機関は、これを探るため局員を現地に派遣する。そして、浮かび上がったトパーズという謎の組織を追って、局員はその正体を探るが…。キューバ危機を背景にしたスパイ・スリラー。
Hard Contract
Director of Photography
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract.
戦うパンチョ・ビラ
Director of Photography
メキシコの政府軍に武器を輸送するアメリカの飛行機乗りが、革命軍側に捕まった。命は救けられるが、彼は革命軍の為に働くことになる。そして次第に革命軍のリーダー、パンチョ・ビラに魅せられていくのだった......。
The Long Duel
Director of Photography
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colonial capacity, the policeman is impressed by the ingenuity and integrity of his enemy and is determined to arrest him alive rather than bring him in dead as his superiors might wish.
007/カジノロワイヤル
Director of Photography
秘密組織スメルシュによって各国の諜報部員が次々と抹殺されて行く。英情報部は、007のコードネームを後輩に譲り今では隠居生活を営む元祖ジェームズ・ボンドにスメルシュ打倒を依頼するが……。ショーン・コネリーの007が人気を博していた当時、唯一版権が製作会社イオン・プロになかった『カジノ・ロワイヤル』をプロデューサー、チャールズ・K・フェルドマンがコロムビアで映画化した一大パロディ。笑いは泥臭く全く洗練されていないし、5人の監督の個性が裏目に出たのかシーンによっての落差が激しく、お世辞にも良く出来た作品とは言い難いが、とにかく賑やか。呆けて見るにはこれ以上の映画はないだろう。バート・バカラックの音楽は絶品、大ヒット主題歌“愛のおもかげ(Look of Love)”も素晴らしくサウンドトラックの充実が最大の魅力。
唇からナイフ
Director of Photography
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
バルジ大作戦
Director of Photography
大戦末期のドイツ軍の大作戦を描いた戦争スペクタクル。1944年、敗色濃いドイツ軍は、起死回生をかけて、アルデンヌの連合軍部隊を急襲した。早くも勝利気分に浸っていた連合側は、雲霞のごとくあらわれたタイガー戦車群に、ことごとく破れさっていく。そして同じ頃、戦線後方に、ドイツのパラシュート部隊が降下を開始していた。
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Director of Photography
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
サーカスの世界
Director of Photography
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.
予期せぬ出来事
Director of Photography
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
北京の55日
Director of Photography
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Live Now - Pay Later
Director of Photography
Albert, a cheeky, womanising, door-to door salesman, with a never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude, lives his life for the moment, and with no thought of his future, or the consequences of his actions on the people he encounters.
The Road to Hong Kong
Director of Photography
When Chester accidentally memorizes and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, they are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive while keeping the formula out of enemy hands.
The Sundowners
Director of Photography
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
The Millionairess
Director of Photography
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
去年の夏 突然に
Director of Photography
ある日、若く優秀な脳外科医クックロウィッツ博士は、裕福な未亡人ビネーブル夫人の邸宅に招待され、ある脳手術を依頼される。患者は、夫人の息子セバスチャンの死を機に発病し、精神病院に入院中の姪キャザリン。夫人は、病院への寄付をちらつかせ、強引に手術を迫る。しかし、キャザリンを診た博士は、彼女に手術が必要とは思えなかった。夫人は、セバスチャンの死に関して、重大な謎を握っているキャザリンの記憶が蘇ることを恐れていたのだった・・・。
Jet Storm
Director of Photography
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
The Devil's Disciple
Director of Photography
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
The Journey
Director of Photography
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
Another Time, Another Place
Director of Photography
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
Director of Photography
About to enter a marriage he wants no part of, rich nobleman Mitchell takes up with gypsy Mecouri. They marry, but she soon discovers he's deeply in debt. (TCM)
戦場にかける橋
Director of Photography
タイとビルマの国境近くにある日本軍の捕虜収容所では捕虜を使って国境に流れるクワイ河に橋を架ける準備が進められていた。英軍大佐はジュネーヴ協定に反するとして所長と対立し、所長は恩赦を条件にしたことで大佐はこれを承諾し建設工事が始まった。だが同時に、収容所から脱走した米海軍少佐の手引きによって連合軍による架橋爆破作戦も開始されようとしていた。
The Living Idol
Director of Photography
An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess.
追想
Director of Photography
英国に貯金されているロシア皇帝の財産を横取りしようと企む将軍ボーニンの、皇女アナスタシアの替え玉作戦を描いたロマン大作。主演のイングリッド・バーグマンは圧倒的な美しさと気品をたたえ、アカデミー賞に耀いた。
Charley Moon
Director of Photography
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
The March Hare
Director of Photography
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
The Deep Blue Sea
Director of Photography
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
Summertime
Director of Photography
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.
The Teckman Mystery
Director of Photography
A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.
Hobson's Choice
Director of Photography
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
The Heart of the Matter
Director of Photography
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.
超音ジェット機
Director of Photography
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Home at Seven
Director of Photography
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
Talk of a Million
Director of Photography
A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception!
The Reluctant Widow
Director of Photography
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
The Chiltern Hundreds
Director of Photography
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...
The Perfect Woman
Director of Photography
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide.
Cardboard Cavalier
Director of Photography
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
Sleeping Car To Trieste
Director of Photography
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Vice Versa
Director of Photography
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
While the Sun Shines
Director of Photography
Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
School for Secrets
Director of Photography
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
Caesar and Cleopatra
Director of Photography
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
Henry V
Cinematography
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
The Lamp Still Burns
Camera Operator
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
Escape to Danger
Camera Operator
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
Thunder Rock
Camera Operator
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
The First of the Few
Camera Operator
This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.
'Pimpernel' Smith
Camera Operator
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
Pygmalion
Camera Operator
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Spitfire
Camera Operator
The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II