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.
Jack Hildyard Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jack Hildyard |
| Also Know | J. Hildyard |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Camera |
| Place of Birth | London, England |
| Date of Birth | 1908-03-17 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 82 |
| Deathday | 1990-09-05 |
Jack Hildyard Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Making of ‘The Bridge on the River Kwai’ | Himself (archive footage) | 2000-01-01 | … |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | Director of Photography | 1957-10-11 | The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence… |
| Topaz | Director of Photography | 1969-12-17 | Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and… |
| The Millionairess | Director of Photography | 1960-10-18 | 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 l… |
| The Wild Geese | Director of Photography | 1978-06-28 | A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and s… |
| Casino Royale | Director of Photography | 1967-04-13 | Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan – that every agent will be… |
| 55 Days at Peking | Director of Photography | 1963-05-06 | Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebe… |
| Battle of the Bulge | Director of Photography | 1965-12-16 | In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive … |
| Spitfire | Camera Operator | 1942-09-14 | This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history – visionary Spitfire designer R.J. … |
| Villa Rides | Director of Photography | 1968-05-29 | Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of ded… |
| The Perfect Woman | Director of Photography | 1949-05-23 | 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 … |
| The Gypsy and the Gentleman | Director of Photography | 1958-01-15 | 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 d… |
| Emily | Director of Photography | 1976-11-01 | Evocative of the Roaring Twenties, “Emily” (Aka “The Awakening of Emily”) is an erotic coming-of-age film featuring meticulous period detail and music… |
| Home at Seven | Director of Photography | 1952-03-16 | Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder…. |
| Suddenly, Last Summer | Director of Photography | 1959-12-22 | The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane;… |
| The Journey | Director of Photography | 1959-02-11 | A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary…. |
| The Teckman Mystery | Director of Photography | 1954-10-27 | 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 ser… |
| Cardboard Cavalier | Director of Photography | 1949-03-31 | Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depict… |
| The Road to Hong Kong | Director of Photography | 1962-01-01 | 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 in… |
| Circus World | Director of Photography | 1964-06-25 | 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 betw… |
| The Living Idol | Director of Photography | 1957-05-02 | An archaeologist believes a Mexican woman is the reincarnation of an Aztec princess…. |
| Vice Versa | Director of Photography | 1948-01-01 | 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 agai… |
| Sleeping Car To Trieste | Director of Photography | 1948-10-06 | Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express…. |
| The Beast Must Die | Director of Photography | 1974-04-01 | 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 big… |
| Hobson’s Choice | Director of Photography | 1954-04-19 | Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindul… |
| Charley Moon | Director of Photography | 1956-05-01 | 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 H… |
| The March Hare | Director of Photography | 1956-01-01 | 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 h… |
| Talk of a Million | Director of Photography | 1951-03-12 | 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 sce… |
| The Chiltern Hundreds | Director of Photography | 1949-09-27 | 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 generati… |
| The Reluctant Widow | Director of Photography | 1950-05-01 | A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel…. |
| The Sundowners | Director of Photography | 1960-12-08 | 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 set… |
| Thunder Rock | Camera Operator | 1942-12-04 | David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn’t cash his payc… |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | Director of Photography | 1945-12-11 | The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play…. |
| The Long Duel | Director of Photography | 1967-07-27 | 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 offi… |
| ‘Pimpernel’ Smith | Camera Operator | 1941-07-26 | Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith (Howard) takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in… |
| Anastasia | Director of Photography | 1956-12-13 | Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russ… |
| The Deep Blue Sea | Director of Photography | 1955-11-01 | 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…. |
| Escape to Danger | Camera Operator | 1943-10-18 | During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade…. |
| Modesty Blaise | Director of Photography | 1966-05-01 | 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 … |
| The Sound Barrier | Director of Photography | 1952-10-10 | Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight…. |
| Summertime | Director of Photography | 1955-01-01 | 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 doe… |
| Lion of the Desert | Director of Photography | 1981-04-17 | 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 … |
| The Yellow Rolls-Royce | Director of Photography | 1964-12-31 | Passion, intrigue, adventure, love… everything happens in The Yellow Rolls-Royce. One luxury automobile ties together three stories as it passes fro… |
| Jet Storm | Director of Photography | 1959-09-16 | Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic…. |
| Hard Contract | Director of Photography | 1969-04-30 | 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… |
| School for Secrets | Director of Photography | 1946-12-23 | 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 B… |
| The Lamp Still Burns | Camera Operator | 1943-11-29 | A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II…. |
| Another Time, Another Place | Director of Photography | 1958-05-02 | In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fe… |
| The V.I.P.s | Director of Photography | 1963-09-01 | Wealthy passengers fogged in at London’s Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials…. |
| While the Sun Shines | Director of Photography | 1947-02-01 | 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 roman… |
| Pygmalion | Camera Operator | 1939-03-03 | When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months’ training,… |
| Florence Nightingale | Director of Photography | 1985-07-05 | This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession … |
| The Devil’s Disciple | Director of Photography | 1959-08-20 | In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Re… |
| Mousey | Director of Photography | 1974-05-24 | A high school teacher separated from his son plots revenge on his ex-wife…. |
| Mafia Junction | Director of Photography | 1973-03-05 | 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 ba… |
| The Heart of the Matter | Director of Photography | 1953-11-03 | Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman…. |
| The Message | Director of Photography | 1976-07-30 | 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 publ… |
| Henry V | Cinematography | 1944-11-24 | In the midst of the Hundred Years’ War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415…. |
| The Message | Cinematography | 1976-03-09 | Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed…. |
| Director of Photography | Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard … | ||
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