Robert Hamer was educated at Cambridge University. He went to work at London Films as a clapper boy in 1934, and by 1938 was on the editing staff. An associate producer from 1943, Hamer made his directorial entree with the "Haunted Mirror" sequence in the portmanteau feature Dead of Night (1943); his first feature-length assignment was Pink String and Sealing Wax (1944). For several years, Hamer's career soared like a comet, thanks largely to his quartet of films with Alec Guinness. The best of these, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), is an imperishable comedy classic. But as the 1950s rolled on, Hamer's reputation plummeted. Three years after directing his last film, the enjoyable but money-losing School for Scoundrels, Robert Hamer was dead at 52.
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
Screenwriter |
1964 | |||
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55 Days at Peking
Screenwriter |
1963 | |||
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The Long Rope
Screenwriter |
1961 | |||
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School for Scoundrels
Director |
1960 | |||
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The Scapegoat
Director, Screenwriter |
1959 | |||
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To Paris with Love
Director |
1955 | |||
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The Detective
Director, Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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The Long Memory
Director, Screenwriter |
1953 | |||
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His Excellency
Director, Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Director, Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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The Spider and the Fly
Director |
1949 | |||
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It Always Rains on Sunday
Director, Screenwriter |
1947 | |||
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Dead of Night
Director |
1945 | |||
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Pink String and Sealing Wax
Director, Screenwriter |
1945 | |||
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Fiddlers Three
Producer |
1944 | |||
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San Demetrio, London
Producer, Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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My Learned Friend
Producer |
1943 | |||
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The Foreman Went to France
Editor |
1942 | |||
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It's Turned out Nice Again
Editor |
1941 | |||
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Ships with Wings
Editor |
1941 | |||
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Jamaica Inn
Editor |
1939 | |||
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Sidewalks of London
Editor |
1938 | |||
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The Beachcomber
Editor |
1938 |

