Douglas Slocombe

Douglas Slocombe

Nascimento : 1913-02-10, London, England, UK

Morte : 2016-02-22

História

Ralph Douglas Vladimir Slocombe OBE, BSC, ASC, GBCT (10 February 1913 – 22 February 2016) was a British cinematographer, particularly known for his work at Ealing Studios in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as the first three Indiana Jones films. He won BAFTA Awards in 1964, 1975, and 1979, and was nominated for an Academy Award on three occasions. Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas Slocombe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Douglas Slocombe

Filmes

Indiana Jones e a Última Cruzada
Director of Photography
O arqueólogo Indiana Jones tem acesso à um misterioso envelope que contém informações sobre a localização do lendário Santo Graal, o cálice que Jesus Cristo teria utilizado na Última Ceia. Quando seu pai, o professor Henry Jones, é sequestrado pelos nazistas, o aventureiro irá embarcar numa missão perigosa para salvá-lo e impedir que a relíquia sagrada caia em mãos erradas.
Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios
Interviewee
Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.
Lady Jane - Uma História Verdadeira
Director of Photography
A morte do Rei Henry VIII fez com que seu reino se transformasse num caos devido às sucessivas disputas. Seu frágil filho Edward está muito debilitado, em seu leito de morte.
Ilha dos Malucos
Director of Photography
A British diplomat to a West Indian island nation finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when a large American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.
Indiana Jones e o Templo da Perdição
Director of Photography
Em 1935, o professor, arqueólogo e aventureiro Indiana Jones tem uma nova missão: resgatar as pedras roubadas por um feiticeiro e libertar crianças escravizadas. Para tanto, enfrenta os poderes mágicos e o fanatismo de um culto que sacrifica seres humanos.
007 - Nunca Mais Digas Nunca
Director of Photography
Quando duas ogivas nucleares são roubadas pela maléfica organização Espectro, o Agente 007 envolve-se numa tensa corrida para salvar o mundo dos terroristas nucleares!
Os Piratas de Penzance
Director of Photography
In spite of being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child, Frederic has led a very sheltered life. So when he arrives in Cornwall with his boisterous shipmates, there are a few surprises in store for him!
Indiana Jones e os Caçadores da Arca Perdida
Director of Photography
Em 1936, o arqueólogo Indiana Jones é contratado para encontrar a Arca da Aliança, que segundo as escrituras bíblicas conteria "Os Dez Mandamentos" que Deus revelou a Moisés no Monte Horeb. Mas como a lenda diz que o exército que a possuir será invencível, Indiana Jones terá um adversário de peso na busca pela arca perdida: o próprio Adolf Hitler.
Nijinsky - Uma História Real
Director of Photography
The film suggests Nijinsky was driven into madness by both his consuming ambition and self-enforced heterosexuality, the latter prompted by his romantic involvement with Romola de Pulszky, a society girl who joins impresario Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes specifically to seduce Nijinsky. After a series of misunderstandings with Diaghilev, who is both his domineering mentor and possessive lover, Nijinsky succumbs to Romola's charms and marries her, after which his gradual decline from artistic moodiness to complete lunacy begins.
Um Toque de Humor
Director of Photography
While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.
Mistérios na Bavaria
Director of Photography
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, she questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon to discover the truth.
Caravanas
Director of Photography
This epic adventure-drama based on James Michener's best-selling novel concerns a young American embassy official who is sent into the Middle-Eastern desert to find the missing daughter of a US Senator. The young woman has left her husband, a Colonel in the Shadom - she was his number two wife - and has opted for the lifestyle of a nomadic tribe. When the diplomat locates the girl he joins the caravan and attempts to persuade the girl to return.
Júlia
Director of Photography
Na década de 30, a escritora americana Lillian Hellman tenta reencontrar Julia, amiga de infância que se juntou ao movimento de resistência contra os nazistas. Ela acaba contrabandeando dinheiro para ajudar na fuga das vítimas do nazismo.
Nasty Habits
Director of Photography
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Director of Photography
When a widowed mother falls in love with an American sailor, her troubled young son is pressured by the bullying leader of his clique to seek revenge.
That Lucky Touch
Director of Photography
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting.
Rollerball: Os Gladiadores do Futuro
Director of Photography
Em uma sociedade futurista, as corporações têm substituído países e existe um jogo recreativo e violento conhecido como"Rollerball", o qual é controlado pelas organizações e jogado em todo o mundo. Em um determinado momento, Jonathan E., um dos jogadores, decide lutar por sua liberdade e deixa o controle da corporação em perigo.
The Maids
Director of Photography
A film version of Genet's play. Two maids, Solange and Claire, hate their employers and, while they are out, take turns at dressing up as Madame and insulting her.
Amor Entre as Ruínas
Director of Photography
An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.
Hedda
Director of Photography
Returning from her honeymoon with her husband, scholar Jorgen, the cold and manipulative Hedda Gabler is unmoved by the sacrifices he's made to provide her with an elegant home. But when she learns that Jorgen's rival for a university position, Ejlert, has made a surprising comeback with a recent publication, she's quick to push him back into his former alcoholism, steal the sequel to his book and even encourage the writer to kill himself.
The Marseille Contract
Director of Photography
An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.
O Grande Gatsby
Director of Photography
Nick Carraway, um jovem do Meio-Oeste agora vivendo em Long Island, fica fascinado pelo passado misterioso e estilo de vida pródigo de seu vizinho, o novo-rico Jay Gatsby. Ele é atraído para o círculo de amizades de Gatsby, tornando-se uma testemunha da obsessão e tragédia.
The Return
Director of Photography
Stephen Royds arrives at an old house announcing that he intends to buy the property, much to the surprise of its solitary occupant, caretaker Mrs Parks. The house has been all but abandoned since its previous owner, Gerald Harboys had been committed to an asylum for the apparent murder of his wife Muriel on their wedding night. Harboys had been obsessive about the physical perfection of women and, discovering that Muriel had had her right middle toe amputated as a child, had murdered her. But her ghost is said to still haunt the old house.
Jesus Cristo Superstar
Director of Photography
Sob a visão atormentada de Judas Iscariotes (Carl Anderson), conhecemos os sete últimos dias de Jesus (Ted Neely) na Terra, terminando com a sua crucificação, mas sem contar a ressureição. A narrativa é uma mistura de passado e presente, apresentando soldados romanos que usam metralhadora e perseguem um Cristo hippie. Musical dirigido por Norman Jewison.
Travels with My Aunt
Director of Photography
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
The Music Lovers
Director of Photography
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately he chooses a wonky, nymphomaniac girl whom he cannot satisfy.
Seu Último Combate
Director of Photography
Murphy é o único sobrevivente de sua tripulação que foi massacrado por um submarino U-Boat alemão nos últimos dias da WW2. Ele é salvo por nativos em algum lugar no delta do rio Orinoco e começa a planejar sua vingança. Ele quer afundar o U-Boat por meio de qualquer método que se possa imaginar. Para isso conta com a ajuda de Louie, o administrador e único funcionário de uma petrolífera na ilha.
The Buttercup Chain
Director of Photography
Born to twin sisters on the same day in London, France and Margaret are more like brother and sister than cousins. The close relationship between the cousins is suspended when Margaret is sent abroad for schooling. Now a young woman, Margaret returns to London and resumes her intimate connection with France.
Um Golpe à Italiana
Director of Photography
Charlie Croker assume um plano complicado para roubar barras de ouro da Itália, bem debaixo dos narizes da polícia e da máfia. Ele reúne um peculiar grupo com os mais infames "hackers", ladrões de banco, sequestradores e motoristas de fuga.
O Leão no Inverno
Director of Photography
Natal de 1183 - Um envelhecido Rei Henrique II planeja uma reunião onde ele espera escolherr seu sucessor. Ele convoca as seguintes pessoas para o Natal: suas ardilosa mas aprisionada esposa, Rainha Eleanor de Aquitânia; sua amante, a Princesa Alais, com quem ele deseja se casar; seus três filhos (Richard, Geoffrey, e João), todos os quais desejam o trono; e o jovem mas astuto Rei Filipe da França (que também é irmão de Alais). Com o destino do império de Henrique em jogo, todo mundo inicia sua própria luta de mentiras e traição para garantir sua reivindicação. Natal de 1183 - Todos os três filhos do rei Henrique II querem herdar o trono, mas ele não vai se comprometer com uma escolha. Então eles e sua ardilosa esposa tramam para forçá-lo.
O Homem Que Veio de Longe
Director of Photography
Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.
A Espiã Que Veio do Céu
Director of Photography
Explosões de brincos, danças com touros, saltos de aviões a 10.000 pés de altitude... Fathom dá conta de tudo isso e muito mais nesta divertida história de espionagem. A sensual e voluptuosa pára-quedista Fathom Harvill (Raquel Welch) é recrutada por uma agência governamental ultra-secreta para saltar sobre a Espanha em busca de um desertor de guerra (Tony Franciosa) e de um detonador da bomba H que dizem estar com a misteriosa figura. Mas a espiã supersexy pode ter que revelar mais do que intencionava à medida que descobre a verdade por trás dos motivos de seu empregador e os resultados... serão hilários!
Os 26 do Expresso Postal
Director of Photography
Um grupo de criminosos britânicos planeja o roubo do trem Royal Mail na rota Glasgow-Londres. Uma dramatização do Grande Assalto ao Trem. Embora não seja um "como", é muito minucioso nos detalhes, mostrando o cuidado e planejamento que teve lugar para realizá-lo. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
A Dança dos Vampiros
Director of Photography
O famoso professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) e seu desastrado assistente Alfred (Roman Polanski) viajam para a remota Transilvânia para pesquisar vampiros. Eles são hospedados em uma pousada por Shagal e, logo, o tímido Alfred se apaixona por Sarah, a filha de cabelos ruivos. Quando Sarah é sequestrada pelo misterioso conde von Krolock, o professor Abronsius e Alfred dirigem-se para o seu assustador castelo. A dupla de cientistas é recebida pelo conde e pelo seu alegre filho Herbert que os convidam para um baile de vampiros logo mais a noite.
Crepúsculo das Águias
Director of Photography
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
A Deliciosa Viuvinha
Director of Photography
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.
A High Wind in Jamaica
Director of Photography
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
Os Rifles de Batasi
Director of Photography
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.
Verdade Oculta
Director of Photography
O primeiro segredo é o que não dizemos às pessoas, o segundo segredo é o que não nos dizemos, e o terceiro segredo é a verdade. Um proeminente psicólogo londrino parece ter tirado a própria vida, causando uma grande descrença entre seus colegas e pacientes. Sua filha adolescente se recusa a acreditar que foi suicídio, pois isso iria contra todos os princípios que seu pai defendia, portanto ela está convencida de que foi assassinato. Ela pede a ajuda de um ex-paciente para tentar chegar à verdade. A verdade, no entanto, revela-se surpreendente e perturbadora. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
O Criado
Director of Photography
Neste drama histórico de luta de classe e decadência moral, um mulherengo mimado compra uma casa elegante na cidade e contrata um criado dedicado. Passam a surgir problemas quando a namorada do jovem começa a suspeitar do criado.
Freud: Além da Alma
Director of Photography
John Huston realiza uma pseudo-biografia do psicanalista vienense Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), mas descrevendo apenas um período de cinco anos (a partir de 1885) da vida do médico. Nessa época, a maioria dos colegas de Freud se recusavam a tratar dos casos de histeria por acreditar que tudo não passava de fingimento dos pacientes para chamar atenção. Mas Freud não acreditava nisso e passou a aplicar a técnica da hipnose, que viria a se tornar uma prática no tratamento psiquiátrico.
The L-Shaped Room
Director of Photography
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
The Young Ones
Director of Photography
Nicky and his friends find that their youth club is in danger of being flattened to make way for a new office block unless they can come up with £1500 to pay the new owner, the ruthless property tycoon Hamilton Black. To help raise the cash, Nicky records a song and his friends broadcast it via a pirate radio station, touting him as "The Mystery Singer" - the plan works and interest in their up and coming show is heightened by this new but unknown heart-throb. But Nicky has an even bigger secret and one that he cannot share, even with his girlfriend Toni... Hamilton Black is his father.
A Marca do Cárcere
Director of Photography
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
Grito de Pavor
Director of Photography
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
The Boy Who Stole a Million
Director of Photography
A boy gets involved in a bank robbery
Circo dos Horrores
Director of Photography
Em 1947, na Inglaterra, um cirurgião plástico deve bater em retirada para a França, quando um de seus pacientes tem problemas horríveis com sua cirurgia. Uma vez lá, ele opera sobre a filha de um dono do circo, deformado por bombas da guerra. Mais tarde, ele se torna o dono do circo, e continua transformando as mulheres desfiguradas para as belas estrelas de seu show. O repórter intrometida (bem como Scotland Yard) da polícia e se interessar quando as mulheres que querem fora do circo começam a morrer em acidentes estranhos, e eles começam a suspeitar o bom médico é responsável.
Tread Softly Stranger
Director of Photography
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
Davy
Director of Photography
The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own ? The last comedy to be produced at Ealing Studios.
The Man in the Sky
Cinematography
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
A Bela e o Gato
Director of Photography
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image. he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family, and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only just beginning.
Ludwig II
Director of Photography
Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Lease of Life
Director of Photography
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
A Loteria do Amor
Cinematography
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
O Expresso de Titfield
Director of Photography
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
Mandy
Director of Photography
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.
His Excellency
Director of Photography
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
O Homem do Terno Branco
Director of Photography
Linda sátira sobre inventor que descobre um tecido que nunca se desgasta ou suja. Naturalmente é um desastre para a indústria de tecidos. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
O Mistério da Torre
Director of Photography
O tímido Holland, um quase aposentado, sonha em ser rico e viver a boa vida. Fielmente, por 20 anos, ele tem trabalhado como um agente de transferência bancária para a entrega de barras de ouro. Um dia ele se torna amigo de Pendlebury, fabricante de souvenirs. Holland observa que, com o equipamento de fundição de Pendlebury, pode-se fundir o ouro em Torres Eiffel como um brinquedo de aparência inofensiva e contrabandear o ouro da Inglaterra para a França. Em seguida os dois contam uma história para conseguir a ajuda dos criminosos profissional Lackery e Shorty (Baixinho). Juntos, os quatro executam seu planos, o que os leva a inesperadas reviravoltas.
Cage of Gold
Director of Photography
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.
Dance Hall
Director of Photography
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
A Run for Your Money
Director of Photography
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!
As Oito Vítimas
Director of Photography
A mãe de Louis Manzzini pertence à aristocrata família D'Ascoyne, até ela fugir com um cantor de ópera. A partir daí, ela e Louis são rejeitados pelos D'Ascoynes. Quando vira um adulto, Louis resolve se vingar, tornando-se o próximo Duque da família. O caminho mais fácil para ele acaba sendo assassinar o sucessor natural ao cargo.
Another Shore
Director of Photography
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Director of Photography
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
It Always Rains on Sunday
Director of Photography
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
The Loves of Joanna Godden
Director of Photography
Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
Hue and Cry
Director of Photography
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
Corações Aflitos
Director of Photography
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.
Na Solidão da Noite
Director of Photography
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
Painted Boats
Director of Photography
In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.
Champagne Charlie
Camera Operator
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
For Those in Peril
Director of Photography
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.
The Big Blockade
Director of Photography
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
Find, Fix and Strike
Camera Operator
Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.
Guests of Honour
Cinematography
Ealing Studios short war documentary