Peter Newbrook

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Peter AH Newbrook (born June 29, 1920 in Chester , United Kingdom , † June 29, 2009 in Norwich , Norfolk ) was a British cameraman and film producer with a single foray into film directing.

Live and act

Newbrook came straight from school in 1934 to film and began his career as a camera assistant at Warner Bros. / Teddington Studios and was involved in 1941 in the propaganda films Ship With Wings, The Blockade and Next of Kin . In 1947 Newbrook rose to become a simple cameraman (so-called camera operator ). In this capacity, Newbrook worked on eleven films between 1952 and 1957 for his famous colleague Jack Hildyard , including in 1956/57 on David Lean's monumental war film The Bridge on the Kwai . Newbrook was also involved in Lean's masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia as a simple cameraman (there under the direction of Freddie Young ) in 1961/62.

Then Newbrook got his first job as chief cameraman. The film productions supervised in this position were, however, much more modest, both in terms of budget and demands. His contributions to British horror films of the 1960s and early 1970s are particularly remembered. At the end of his career in 1972, Newbrook tried his hand at the only time as a director in the horror story Experiments . After a documentary about Greece published in 1975, Peter Newbrook retired from the film business.

From 1986 to 1988 Peter Newbrook was President of the British Society of Cinematographers . In the 2000s, he provided information about the celebrated star director in documentaries about David Lean.

Filmography

as a simple cameraman (until 1962) and chief cameraman (from 1962), unless otherwise stated

  • 1943: The New Lot (short film)
  • 1947: Against the Wind
  • 1948: Scott's Last Voyage (Scott of the Antarctic)
  • 1949: Der Spielteufel (Third Time Lucky)
  • 1949: Melody Club
  • 1949: Secret Wave 505 (Dick Barton Strikes Back)
  • 1950: Our Wife
  • 1952: The Unknown Enemy (The Sound Barrier)
  • 1952: The Heart of the Matter
  • 1952: In the shadow of the Corsican (Sea Devils)
  • 1953: The Key to Paradise (The Captain's Paradise)
  • 1953: I'm the master of the house (Hobson's Choice)
  • 1954: His Greatest Trial (The Green Scarf)
  • 1954: The Teckman Mystery
  • 1954: Dream of my Life (Summertime)
  • 1954: Alluring Deep (The Deep Blue Sea)
  • 1956: Charlie Moon
  • 1956: Dry red
  • 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
  • 1957: In Another Land (A Farewell to Arms)
  • 1959: Mark Saber of London (TV series)
  • 1960: The Green Helmet
  • 1961: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse)
  • 1962: Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence of Arabia)
  • 1962: In the Cool of the Day
  • 1963: Adam and Eve (Thet Kind of Girl)
  • 1963: Saturday Night Out
  • 1964: The horror of Black Torment (The Black Torment)
  • 1965: Gonks Go Beat (also production)
  • 1966: The Sandwich Man (also production)
  • 1966: A blind chicken (Press for Time) (also production)
  • 1967: The beast with the scalpel (corruption) (also production)
  • 1969: The Smashing Bird I Used to Know (also production)
  • 1970: Incense for the Damned (also line producer)
  • 1971: The Secret of My Perfume (She'll Follow You Anywhere) (production only)
  • 1971: The Crucible of Terror (also production manager)
  • 1972: Experiments (The Asphyx) (director only)
  • 1975: The Wonderful World of Greene (documentary)

literature

  • David Jones (Ed.): Film Fanatics Guide. Merlin Books Ltd., Braunton (Devon) 1988, p. 320 f.

Individual proof

  1. ↑ according to the British birth register. Newbrook himself gave the year of birth "1918" printed in Film Fanatics Guide

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personal data
SURNAME Newbrook, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Newbrook, Peter AH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman and film producer with a foray into film directing
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Chester , UK
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2009
Place of death Norwich , Norfolk