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Rudolph Maté, A.S.C. (21 January 1898 – 27 October 1964), born Rudolf Matheh or Mayer, was an accomplished cinematographer and film director.
Born in Kraków (then in Austria-Hungary, now in Poland), Maté started in the film business after his graduation from the University of Budapest. He went on to work as an assistant cameraman in Hungary and later throughout Europe, sometimes with noted colleague Karl Freund. Maté worked on several of Carl Theodor Dreyer’s films including The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) and Vampyr (1932) which led to his being hired as director of photography on a number of prominent films.
Maté worked as cinematographer on Hollywood films from the mid-1930s, including Dodsworth (1936), the Laurel and Hardy feature Our Relations (1936) and Stella Dallas (1937). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in five consecutive years, for Foreign Correspondent (1940), That Hamilton Woman (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), Sahara (1943), and Cover Girl (1944).
In 1947, he turned to directing films, his credits include When Worlds Collide (1951), the film noir classic D.O.A. and No Sad Songs for Me (both 1950).
Directed by Maté, The 300 Spartans is a 1962 film depicting the Battle of Thermopylae. Made with the cooperation of the Greek government, it was shot in the village of Perachora in the Peloponnese.
He died from a heart attack in Hollywood on October 27, 1964 at the age of 66.
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Rudolph Maté Biography / Wiki
| Name | Rudolph Maté |
| Also Know | Rudolphe Mate |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Camera |
| Place of Birth | Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland] |
| Date of Birth | 1898-01-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 66 |
| Deathday | 1964-10-27 |
Rudolph Maté Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Second Chance | Director | 1953-07-18 | The story tells of Russ Lambert (Robert Mitchum), a prize-fighter with a lethal right-handed punch, who through no fault of his own, killed a fighter … |
| The Black Shield of Falworth | Director | 1954-09-02 | In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really w… |
| Forbidden | Director | 1953-12-02 | Forbidden bears traces of several earlier film noirs, with Tony Curtis filling the shoes vacated by the likes of Alan Ladd, Dick Powell and Robert Mit… |
| The Violent Men | Director | 1955-01-26 | A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor’s crippled owner an… |
| Union Station | Director | 1950-10-04 | Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try … |
| The Dark Past | Director | 1948-12-22 | A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be ab… |
| The Green Glove | Director | 1952-02-28 | In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gau… |
| When Worlds Collide | Director | 1951-09-14 | When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it’s accompanying planet will first pass close enou… |
| D.O.A. | Director | 1950-04-21 | Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determi… |
| The 300 Spartans | Director | 1962-08-01 | Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of his personal body guards from Sparta) to hol… |
| The Prince Who Was a Thief | Director | 1951-05-17 | An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure…. |
| It Had to Be You | Director | 1947-12-07 | A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality…. |
| Three Violent People | Director | 1956-12-01 | A rancher, his shady bride and his one-armed brother fight amid carpetbaggers in Texas…. |
| The Far Horizons | Director | 1955-07-04 | Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and … |
| Miracle in the Rain | Director | 1956-03-31 | Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York…. |
| The Deep Six | Director | 1958-01-15 | The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker wh… |
| For the First Time | Director | 1959-02-26 | In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman…. |
| The Rawhide Years | Director | 1956-07-01 | Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But Galen… |
| Sally and Saint Anne | Director | 1952-07-01 | An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman…. |
| Branded | Director | 1950-11-03 | A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as … |
| Seven Seas to Calais | Director | 1962-12-22 | Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain’s treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I…. |
| The Mississippi Gambler | Director | 1953-01-29 | Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamb… |
| The Barbarians | Director | 1960-10-04 | Revak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and enslaved the surviving native men, including him. After… |
| No Sad Songs for Me | Director | 1950-04-27 | Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daught… |
| The Siege at Red River | Director | 1954-05-01 | Cavalry Captain Farraday attempts to prevent the delivery of Gatling Guns into the hands of hostile Indians…. |
| Paula | Director | 1952-05-15 | A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Ov… |
| Port Afrique | Director | 1956-06-18 | An army veteran with a shattered leg returns to his home in Port Afrique after war only to find his wife has been murdered. He’s determined to find th… |
| Aliki My Love | Director | 1963-12-11 | Barry, a wretched playboy, expects to get rich from the legacy of an uncle of his, the king of roast meat sauce, but his lawyer informs him that the s… |
| Director | Letter to Loretta is an American anthology drama series telecast on NBC from September 1953 to June 1961 for a total of 165 episodes. The filmed show … | ||
Rudolph Maté Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Return of October | Producer | 1948-10-26 | A wholesome girl believes her new racehorse, October, is the reincarnation of her favorite uncle, Willie…. |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| To Be or Not to Be | Director of Photography | 1942-03-05 | During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier’s efforts to track down a German spy…. |
| The Passion of Joan of Arc | Director of Photography | 1928-04-21 | A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she’… |
| Vampyr | Director of Photography | 1932-05-06 | Traveler Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particul… |
| Gilda | Director of Photography | 1946-04-25 | A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she’s married to his new boss…. |
| Cover Girl | Director of Photography | 1944-03-22 | A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind…. |
| Foreign Correspondent | Director of Photography | 1940-08-16 | The European war was only beginning to erupt across national borders. Johnny Jones, an American crime reporter dispatched by his New York publisher to… |
| Charlie Chan’s Secret | Director of Photography | 1936-01-10 | Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his ma… |
| That Hamilton Woman | Director of Photography | 1941-04-03 | The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her ris… |
| Liliom | Director of Photography | 1934-05-15 | Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a “public figure,” a rascal who’s a carousel barker, loved by the expe… |
| The Pride of the Yankees | Director of Photography | 1942-07-14 | The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig…. |
| Over 21 | Director of Photography | 1945-08-08 | A woman screenwriter lives in a shabby bungalow in order to be near her husband, a 39-year-old newspaper editor who has just joined the army…. |
| Dodsworth | Director of Photography | 1936-09-23 | A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life…. |
| A Message to Garcia | Director of Photography | 1936-04-10 | A fiery Cuban woman guides an emissary from the U.S. president through the jungles of war-torn Cuba…. |
| They Got Me Covered | Director of Photography | 1943-03-04 | Bumbling reporter Robert Kittredge has been fired after bungling his latest assignment. His career isn’t all he’s botched up: his girlfriend Chris is … |
| Come and Get It | Director of Photography | 1936-11-06 | An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman’s daughter…. |
| The Real Glory | Director of Photography | 1939-09-29 | In the wake of the Spanish-American war, military doctor Bill Canavan (Cooper) arrives at a war-torn Filipino outpost. Infested with cholera and under… |
| The Last Billionaire | Director of Photography | 1934-10-16 | The Last Billionaire is a 1934 French comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Max Dearly, Marthe Mellot and Renée Saint-Cyr. The film is bas… |
| Address Unknown | Director of Photography | 1944-06-01 | When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda…. |
| The Adventures of Marco Polo | Director of Photography | 1938-04-07 | The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China…. |
| Trade Winds | Director of Photography | 1938-12-28 | After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her and… |
| Stella Dallas | Director of Photography | 1937-08-06 | After divorcing a society man, a small-town woman tries to build a better life for their daughter…. |
| Metropolitan | Director of Photography | 1935-10-17 | Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and com… |
| Professional Soldier | Director of Photography | 1935-12-27 | Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to k… |
| Song of the Streets | Director of Photography | 1933-07-26 | A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right pat… |
| Love Affair | Director of Photography | 1939-04-07 | French playboy Michel Marnet and American Terry McKay fall in love during the transatlantic passage of a ship. They arrange to reunite six months late… |
| Sahara | Director of Photography | 1943-09-22 | Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert … |
| Tonight and Every Night | Director of Photography | 1945-01-09 | An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall…. |
| Aren’t We All? | Director of Photography | 1932-03-17 | Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt h… |
| Blockade | Director of Photography | 1938-06-17 | A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose f… |
| Michael | Director of Photography | 1924-09-26 | A famed artist fights his passion for a male model, until the young man falls for a woman…. |
| My Favorite Wife | Director of Photography | 1940-05-17 | Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed… |
| Lily Christine | Director of Photography | 1932-03-31 | Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey…. |
| It Had to Be You | Director of Photography | 1947-12-07 | A chronic runaway bride is haunted by her conscience, who becomes reality…. |
| The Merchant of Venice | Director of Photography | 1923-10-12 | The film “Der Kaufmann von Venedig” ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a … |
| Down to Earth | Director of Photography | 1947-08-21 | Upset about a new Broadway musical’s mockery of Greek mythology, the goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth and lands a part in the show. She works h… |
| Navy Wife | Director of Photography | 1935-09-17 | A Hawaiian naval nurse weds a widowed officer partly because he has a crippled daughter…. |
| Our Relations | Director of Photography | 1936-09-15 | Two sailors get caught in a mountain of mix-ups when they meet their long-lost twins. Laurel and Hardy play themselves and their twins…. |
| Mister Albert | Director of Photography | 1932-07-02 | … |
| Seven Sinners | Director of Photography | 1940-10-25 | Beautiful chanteuse ‘Bijou’ (Marlene Dietrich) cascades through Malaysia’s ports of call eventually landing in a handsome lieutenant’s lap. As Bijou ‘… |
| Aren’t We All? | Cinematography | 1932-03-17 | Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt h… |
| The Beautiful Sailor | Cinematography | 1932-12-02 | A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love with Mar… |
| The Flame of New Orleans | Cinematography | 1941-07-07 | In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain…. |
| It Started with Eve | Cinematography | 1941-09-26 | A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father’s last moments happy. However, the old man’s health takes … |
| The Lady from Shanghai | Cinematography | 1947-12-24 | A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife…. |
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