John von Kotze

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John von Kotze (born September 21, 1928 , † June 23, 1986 in London ) was a British cameraman and television director with German roots.

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Little is known about Kotzes' origins and youth. He came shortly after the Second World War to the film and since the age of 20 as a camera assistant on such notable films as experts from the back room , The Third Man , African Queen , where he also took a tiny role as a German officer, and Napoleon prove . Since the mid-1950s, von Kotze was employed as a simple cameraman and second-unit cameraman and was involved in a number of quite ambitious productions with continental European locations, including Die Reise , Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and Phaedra .

In the mid-1960s, when von Kotze was again assigned subordinate camera functions for several film productions by Harry Alan Towers , he also photographed films for Towers several times as head cameraman on his own responsibility. Subsequently, by the end of the same decade, von Kotze was only allowed to direct several episodes of the television series The Rovers . After 1970 his track is lost. He was not heard from again until 1986, the year of his death, when the television documentary Cathedral praise-from Gloucester Cathedral , directed by Kotze, was broadcast on Channel 4 .

Filmography

as a simple cameraman, second-unit cameraman, cameraman for subsequent recordings or as a chief cameraman

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personal data
SURNAME Kukze, John von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman and television director of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1928
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1986
Place of death London