From 1944 through 1949, California-born Robert Burks headed the Special Photographic Effects division at Warner Bros., specializing in forced-perspective miniatures. A full director of photography by 1949, Burks worked with Alfred Hitchcock on the director's fourth Warners production, Strangers on a Train. Hitchcock liked Burks' crisp, clean, deep-focus visual style, retaining the cameraman's services for the rest of his Warners films. When Hitchcock moved to Paramount, Burks moved along with him, winning an Academy Award for 1955's To Catch a Thief. When Hitchcock set up shop at Universal in the early 1960s, Burks collaborated on such pictures as The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964) -- both of which were heavily reliant on the sort of miniature and process work in which Burks specialized in his earliest Warner Bros. days. Robert Burks died along with his wife in a fire at his Los Angeles home in July of 1968.
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Waterhole #3
Cinematographer |
1967 | |||
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A Covenant with Death
Cinematographer |
1966 | |||
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A Patch of Blue
Cinematographer |
1965 | |||
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Once a Thief
Cinematographer |
1965 | |||
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Marnie
Cinematographer |
1964 | |||
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The Birds
Cinematographer |
1963 | |||
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The Music Man
Cinematographer |
1962 | |||
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The Great Impostor
Cinematographer |
1961 | |||
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The Pleasure of His Company
Cinematographer |
1961 | |||
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The Rat Race
Cinematographer |
1960 | |||
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But Not for Me
Cinematographer |
1959 | |||
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North by Northwest
Cinematographer |
1959 | |||
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The Black Orchid
Cinematographer |
1958 | |||
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Vertigo
Cinematographer |
1958 | |||
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The Spirit of St. Louis
Cinematographer |
1957 | |||
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Cinematographer |
1956 | |||
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The Vagabond King
Cinematographer |
1956 | |||
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The Wrong Man
Cinematographer |
1956 | |||
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The Trouble with Harry
Cinematographer |
1955 | |||
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To Catch a Thief
Cinematographer |
1955 | |||
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Dial M for Murder
Cinematographer |
1954 | |||
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Rear Window
Cinematographer |
1954 | |||
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The Boy from Oklahoma
Cinematographer |
1954 | |||
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Hondo
Cinematographer |
1953 | |||
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I Confess
Cinematographer |
1953 | |||
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So This Is Love
Cinematographer |
1953 | |||
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The Desert Song
Cinematographer |
1953 | |||
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Mara Maru
Cinematographer |
1952 | |||
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Room for One More
Cinematographer |
1952 | |||
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The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
Special Effects |
1952 | |||
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Close to My Heart
Cinematographer |
1951 | |||
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Come Fill the Cup
Cinematographer |
1951 | |||
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Strangers on a Train
Cinematographer |
1951 | |||
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The Enforcer
Cinematographer |
1951 | |||
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Tomorrow Is Another Day
Cinematographer |
1951 | |||
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The Glass Menagerie
Cinematographer |
1950 | |||
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A Kiss in the Dark
Cinematographer |
1949 | |||
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Beyond the Forest
Cinematographer |
1949 | |||
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John Loves Mary
Special Effects |
1949 | |||
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Task Force
Cinematographer |
1949 | |||
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The Fountainhead
Cinematographer |
1949 | |||
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Key Largo
Special Effects |
1948 | |||
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Romance on the High Seas
Special Effects |
1948 | |||
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Smart Girls Don't Talk
Special Effects |
1948 | |||
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To the Victor
Cinematographer |
1948 | |||
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Cry Wolf
Special Effects |
1947 | |||
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My Wild Irish Rose
Special Effects |
1947 | |||
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Possessed
Special Effects |
1947 | |||
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The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Special Effects |
1947 | |||
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The Unfaithful
Special Effects |
1947 | |||
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The Unsuspected
Special Effects |
1947 | |||
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Night and Day
Special Effects |
1946 | |||
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The Big Sleep
Special Effects |
1946 | |||
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The Verdict
Special Effects |
1946 | |||
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Escape in the Desert
Cinematographer |
1945 | |||
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God Is My Co-Pilot
Special Effects |
1945 | |||
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Pride of the Marines
Special Effects |
1945 | |||
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Star in the Night
Cinematographer |
1945 | |||
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The Big Sleep (1945 pre-release version)
Special Effects |
1945 | |||
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Special Effects |
1944 | |||
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In Our Time
Special Effects |
1944 | |||
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Jammin' the Blues
Cinematographer |
1944 | |||
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Make Your Own Bed
Cinematographer |
1944 | |||
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In This Our Life
Special Effects |
1942 | |||
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International Squadron
Special Effects |
1941 | |||
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Kings Row
Special Effects |
1941 | |||
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The Great Lie
Special Effects |
1941 | |||
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Special Effects |
1940 | |||
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Consultant/advisor, Special Effects |
1940 | |||
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Saturday's Children
Special Effects |
1940 | |||
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Marked Woman
Special Effects |
1937 |















