Ronald Neame
Ronald Neame, CBE (born April 23, 1911 in London - † June 16, 2010 in Los Angeles , California ) was a British cinematographer , screenwriter , producer , actor and director .
Life
The son of silent film director Elwin Neame and actress Ivy Close began his film career as a cameraman. In 1929 he worked as a second cameraman on Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Blackmail . In the following years he worked behind the camera and received an Oscar nomination for his work on the war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing by directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in 1942 .
From 1942 he wrote scripts together with David Lean and the film producer Anthony Havelock-Allan , the filming of which by the jointly founded production company Cineguild was each directed by David Lean. For its script adaptations, the team of authors was nominated for an Oscar two years in a row , in 1947 for Encounter after Noël Coward and in 1948 for Mysterious Inheritance after Charles Dickens .
After the breakup of Cineguild in 1947, Neame directed his first feature film, Take my Life . From then on he worked mainly as a director and shot a. a. with Gregory Peck the Mark Twain adaptation His greatest bluff (1953), Des Pudels Kern (1958) with Alec Guinness based on the novel by Joyce Cary , The Best Years of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) with Maggie Smith based on the novel by Muriel Spark and Escape from Zahrain (1962) with Yul Brynner . Neame's better-known films also include the musical Scrooge (1970) based on Charles Dickens , the thriller The Odessa Files (1974) with Jon Voight , the disaster film The Poseidon Inferno (1972) with Gene Hackman , the science fiction film Meteor (1979) with Sean Connery and the u. a. Secret service comedy Agentenpoker (1980) with Walter Matthau filmed in Munich and Salzburg .
In 1996 Neame was named Commander of the British Empire for his artistic merits . In 2003 Neame published his memoir under the title Straight from the Horse's Mouth . His brother Derek Neame made a name for himself as a screenwriter. His son Christopher Neame (* 1942) and his son Gareth Neame work as film producers.
Neame died in a Los Angeles clinic on June 16, 2010.
Filmography (selection)
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Autobiography
- Ronald Neame, Barbara Roisman Cooper: Straight from the Horse's Mouth: Ronald Neame: An Autobiography. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2003, ISBN 0-8108-4490-7 .
Web links
- Ronald Neame in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Neame, Ronald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Neame, Ronald CBE |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cinematographer, screenwriter and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 2010 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |