Walter Harvey
Walter James Harvey , in Germany Walter Harvey-Pape , otherwise also James or Jimmy Harvey (born February 9, 1903 in Walsingham , Norfolk , † 1979 in London , England ) was a British cameraman .
Life
The older brother of the film star Lilian Harvey grew up with his sister in Germany and Switzerland and gained his first experience in 1921 in the laboratories of the Berlin Aafa studios. In the following year, Walter James Harvey moved to Decla-Bioscop in Neubabelsberg . Until the end of 1927 he worked as an assistant to important cameramen such as Karl Freund , Franz Planer and Carl Hoffmann . His debut as co-chief cameraman took place in autumn 1926 at the side of his famous colleague Fritz Arno Wagner . In the following year, Harvey, who called himself Walter Harvey-Pape in Germany, served in another three German productions of minor importance under his colleagues Karl Vass and Eduard Hoesch .
Based in London since 1928 , the German director and producer Ewald André Dupont hired him as a camera assistant. In this role, Harvey also worked in 1929 the US cinematographer Charles Rosher in the late silent film The Vagabond Queen (The Vagabond Queen) to. With the dawn of the sound film age, Harvey also received orders as head cameraman in his British homeland (production company BIP ), but almost all of the films he photographed were cheap, mass-produced goods.
In 1941 the War Department hired Walter Harvey, and he made a number of training and promotional films (including for the British Admiralty).
In 1946 he returned to feature films, from 1950 Walter Harvey worked for the small production company Hammer Films , which, however, only entered its most important phase with the production of subsequently famous horror films after he left (1956). Walter Harvey worked regularly with the later star director Terence Fisher from 1951 to 1954. In the first two post-war decades, Harvey was a reliable photographer of cheaply produced B-films: these were mostly well-made crime novels and thrillers for a rather undemanding audience.
Walter Harvey's career ended in the 1960s with a number of television productions, including The Cheaters, Simon Templar , Gideon's Way, The Baron and Richard the Lionheart . He ended his career at the end of the same decade with second-unit photography in some episodes of the legendary agent series Mit Schirm, Charme und Melon . After that his track is lost. He died in London in 1979.
Filmography (selection)
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literature
- International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, p. 122 f., New York 1964
Web links
- Walter Harvey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Harvey, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harvey, Walter James; Harvey, James; Harvey, Jimmy; Harvey-Pape, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Walsingham (Norfolk) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1979 |
| Place of death | London , England |