Austin Dempster

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Austin Dempster (born March 5, 1921 in Godstone , Surrey , United Kingdom , † November 2, 1975 in Surrey, ibid) was a British cameraman .

Live and act

Dempster received his camera engineering training at the beginning of the Second World War and had been active as a simple cameraman since the early 1940s. In this capacity Dempster photographed a number of neat, but rather old-fashioned Herbert Wilcox productions from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s . Afterwards Dempster was subordinate to the chief cameraman Christopher Challis for a good ten years . Under Challis' leadership, Dempster stood behind the camera in 15 films, including The Spanish Gardener , Battleship Graf Spee , The Last Voyage of the Bismarck , Before House Friends Are Warned , Viking Raid , The Victors , Arabesque and Two on the Same Path .

At the beginning of 1967 Austin Dempster was given his first assignment as chief cameraman, but in this position the Briton could hardly make a really high-quality film optically until his untimely death in November 1975. After all, he was featured in the 1972 Oscar- winning comedy film Man, You're Great! with Glenda Jackson and George Segal as chief photographer behind the camera. In 1975 he took over the second unit photography for the large-scale Hollywood production Adventurer on the Lucky Lady . That same year, Austin Dempster died suddenly while filming the unfinished film The New Spartans .

Filmography

only as head cameraman (complete)

  • 1967: Mephisto '68 ( Bedazzled )
  • 1967: Death Dance of a Killer ( A Dandy in Aspic )
  • 1968: Unlucky named Otley ( Otley )
  • 1969: War in the mirror ( The Looking Glass War )
  • 1970: The greatest crook far and wide ( Loot )
  • 1970: Don't Trust a House Friend ( A Severed Head )
  • 1971: Trixis Wonderland ( Tales of Beatrix Potter )
  • 1971: When the Dykes Break ( The Little Ark )
  • 1972: Man, are you great! ( A Touch of Class )
  • 1972 And No One Could Save Her (TV movie)
  • 1972: Alive Alive O!
  • 1973: Jakob und Joseph ( The Story of Jacob and Joseph ) (TV movie)
  • 1974: Born Free (TV series)
  • 1975: The New Spartans (unfinished)

literature

  • David Jones: Film Fanatics' Guide. Merlin Books Ltd., Braunton (Devon) 1988, p. 239

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personal data
SURNAME Dempster, Austin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Godstone , United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH 2nd November 1975
Place of death Surrey , UK