Patrick Carey

Patrick Carey (born September 5, 1916 in London , † 1994 in Canada ) was a British cameraman , screenwriter , film producer and director of documentaries , who was twice nominated for the Oscar for best documentary short film .

biography

Carey was the one son of the stage actress Mia Carey ; his brother was the actor Denis Carey (1909–1986). He began at the end of the 1950s as a cameraman for documentary short films and made around a dozen short films over the years, several times also being the screenwriter, producer and director of these films. He was involved as a cameraman on the 1959 Oscar- nominated short documentary film Journey Into Spring , and the year before on The Living Stone .

At the 1966 Academy Awards , he and Joe Mendoza were first nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Film, for The Homeland of Poet Yeats (Yeats Country, 1965), a film about William Butler Yeats and his Irish homeland. For this film he received the Golden Bear in the category “Best Short Film” at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1965 . Carey directed the short documentary Wild Wings , which was released in 1966 and is about a game reserve with numerous wild birds. The film, produced by Edgar Anstey , won an Oscar that went to the producer.

Five years later Carey was nominated for the second Oscar in this category at the 1971 Academy Awards: with producer Vivien Carey for the 1971 film Oisin in Ireland .

In 1980 he went back to Canada, where he had lived and worked from 1956 to 1962.

Web links

• Patrick Carey in theInternet Movie Database(English)