Alan Hume

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Alan Hume (born October 16, 1924 in London , † July 13, 2010 in Chalfont St. Giles , Buckinghamshire ) was a British cameraman .

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Alan Hume learned his profession from scratch: at the age of 18 he worked during the Second World War as a “girl for everything” for Olympic Film Laboratories in Acton, Middlesex near London, when he briefly took the job of a “clapper boy” and drafted for military service 2. Assistant camera at Denham Filmstudios from Alexander Korda . Denham Studios were the largest of their kind in the UK at the time. Here he was promoted by director David Lean and soon rose to the position of 2nd camera assistant (“Focus Puller”). In 1944 he was called up for military service and served as a photographer for the Fleet Air Arm until he was demobilized .

After the end of the war, he continued to work as a focus puller for Denham and Pinewood Studios , before taking on his first tasks as 1st technical camera operator in the mid-1950s. The first movie he took over as the main cinematographer ( "director of photography"), was the comedy No Kidding - Beware of Children , directed by Gerald Thomas for Beaconsfield Studios by Peter Rogers in Buckinghamshire . This studio he remained for ten years connected, since he worked freelance and took over in the 1960s and duties as chief responsibility for lighting designer ( "lighting director") for film and television . Hume became known during the 1970s and 1980s for his camerawork for James Bond films with Roger Moore , for which director John Glen brought him behind the camera at Pinewood Studios. In 1976, as a second unit cameraman , he filmed the legendary ski jumping opening scene of The Spy Who Loved Me , in 1981 he was the first cameraman and worked in this role for James Bond 007 - In a deadly mission . This was followed by James Bond 007 - Octopussy in 1983 and James Bond 007 - In the Face of Death in 1985 . After that, Hume was replaced by Alec Mills as a cameraman for the James Bond films. He remained connected to the “Bond family” of those years even after the end of the collaboration and regularly took part in meetings of former Bond film employees and stars, most recently in 2009 at the From Pinewood with Love event .

Hume was also responsible for the cinematography for the sixth part of the Star Wars saga The Return of the Jedi and for the British box office hit and cult film A Fish Named Wanda . Hume also worked on numerous parts of the carry-on ... film series . He has worked exclusively for British television since the 1990s and retired from camera work into private life in 1998.

In 1964 he was elected to the British Society of Cinematographers , of which he was chairman from 1969 to 1971; In 1989 he was nominated for the Best Cinematography Award . In 2004 his autobiography A Life through the Lens was published. Memoirs of a Film Cameraman .

Hume was the father of four children, who, like one grandson, were all or are active in the film business or in camera work.

Filmography (selection)

Fonts

Alan Hume (with Gareth Owen): A Life through the Lens. Memoirs of a Film Cameraman. With a foreword by Peter Rogers and Kevin Connor . MacFarland & Company 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alan Hume at the Big Bond Meeting 2009 ( August 15, 2010 memento on the Internet Archive ), bondstars.com, accessed July 15, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Hume, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2010
Place of death Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England