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Robert Hamer (31 March 1911 – 4 December 1963) was a British film director and screenwriter best known for the 1949 black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets and the now acknowledged 1947 classic It Always Rains on Sunday.
Robert Hamer. Director: Kind Hearts and Coronets. Robert James Hamer was born in 1911 along with his twin sister Barbara, the son of Owen Dyke Hamer, a bank clerk, and his wife, Annie Grace Brickell.
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Robert Hamer. Director: Kind Hearts and Coronets. Robert James Hamer was born in 1911 along with his twin sister Barbara, the son of Owen Dyke Hamer, a bank clerk, and his wife, Annie Grace Brickell.
- March 31, 1911
- December 4, 1963
Jun 29, 2016 · Robert Hamer was a creative and influential director who made films like Kind Hearts and Coronets and It Always Rains on Sunday at Ealing Studios. He struggled with alcoholism and left the industry early, but his legacy deserves more recognition.
Robert Hamer (1911-63) was a versatile and innovative filmmaker who worked in various genres and styles, from horror to comedy. He is best known for Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), a classic black comedy with Alec Guinness, but he also made films such as Pink String and Sealing Wax, The Spider and the Fly, and The Man Who Could Cheat Death.
"A former editor with a flair for both darkly satirical comedy and even darker British film noir, Robert Hamer was a key figure in postwar British cinema. His sensitive talent was probably best showcased in the handsome and witty period-set comedy of murders, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and the realistic yet superbly moody noir It Always ...
May 23, 2021 · Slice of life drama following the lives of various people in London's East End on a wet Sunday. Rose was engaged to local wild boy Tommy Swann but he got imprisoned on Dartmoor.
