Stephen Dade

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Stephen Dade (born August 13, 1909 in Beckenham , London , † spring 1975 in Shepway , Kent ) was a British cameraman .

Life

Dade had started as a camera assistant at Gaumont Studios in Shepherd's Bush in 1927 and worked his way up to a simple cameraman over the course of the 1930s. In this role, Dade also photographed the Hitchcock thriller Secret Agent , Sabotage and Young and Innocent .

In 1940 Dade was appointed chief cameraman. His career breakthrough came shortly after the war, when he photographed a number of commercially quite successful, albeit artistically often unsatisfactory, melodramas and adventure material in historical guise. Above all, his color photography in some high-class entertainment productions such as Christoph Columbus , The Knights of the Round Table and Zulu earned Dade the reputation of a technically adept, if not too experimental, veteran and expert. In three other A productions, Mogambo , Ivanhoe - The Black Knight and Bhowani Junction , Dade was used as a second unit cameraman.

Nevertheless, Dade had to be content mainly with the photography of second- and third-class films, including crime novels and comedies for suburban cinemas. In 1965 he photographed the animal story Sandy the Seal in South Africa with the German 60s stars Heinz Drache and Marianne Koch in the leading roles.

Towards the end of his career, Dade also took photographs for television (e.g. various episodes for Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone and The Man with the Suitcase at the end of the 1960s ) before retiring into private life at the beginning of the following decade. Dade died in Kent in the second quarter of 1975.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1940: Sailors Don't Care
  • 1940: Danny Boy
  • 1941: Facing the Music
  • 1941: Front Line Kids
  • 1941: The Missing Million
  • 1942: We'll Meet Again
  • 1942: Get Cracking
  • 1943: demobbed
  • 1944: Something Was Left Behind (A Place of One's Own)
  • 1946: Dangerous journey (caravan)
  • 1946: The Root of All Evil
  • 1946: The Brothers
  • 1947: The Perfect Murderer (Dear Murderer)
  • 1947: Dance into the Abyss (Good Time Girl)
  • 1949: Christoph Columbus (Christopher Columbus)
  • 1949: Das tanzende Wien (The Dancing Years)
  • 1950: The Late Edwina Black
  • 1952: Appointment in London
  • 1953: The Knights of the Round Table (Knights of the Round Table)
  • 1957: Women We Meet at Night (The Flesh is Weak)
  • 1958: Against Customs and Morals (A Question of Adultery)
  • 1959: Hill of Secrets (The Angry Hills)
  • 1959: Ten women disappeared in Paris (Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons)
  • 1960: Uprising at dawn (A Terrible Beauty)
  • 1960: The Houseboat (Double Bunk)
  • 1960: Drawn by the Devil (The Snake Woman)
  • 1961: Enter Inspector Duval
  • 1961: The Gentle Terror
  • 1961: The Cream People Talk about (Dentist on the Job)
  • 1962: Gang War
  • 1962: Rendezvous with the soft voice (Don't Talk to Strange Men)
  • 1962: Serena
  • 1963: Smuggler (The Switch)
  • 1963: Zulu
  • 1964: One time is billed (The Crooked Road)
  • 1964: Sanders and the Ship of Death (Coast of Skeletons)
  • 1965: City on the Sea (City Under the Sea)
  • 1965: The Night Caller
  • 1965: Sandy the Seal
  • 1967: Queen of the Viking (The Viking Queen)
  • 1966: The Vulture
  • 1968: On the Run

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 250.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data of Stephen Dade in: Zulu: with some guts behind it: the making of the epic movie , by Sheldon Hall, 2005, p. 216
personal data
SURNAME Dade, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Beckenham , London
DATE OF DEATH 1975
Place of death Shepway , Kent