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.
Always Rains on Sunday. Hamer was born at 24 Chester Road, Kidderminster, along with his twin Barbara, the son of Owen Dyke Hamer, a bank clerk, and his...
society. Hamer has been described by biographer John Boessenecker as "one of the greatest American lawmen of the twentieth century". Frank Hamer was born...
In 1951, the Hamers moved to Los Angeles where Arthur Hamer worked as representative for a manufacturer of men's sport shirts (Arthur Hamer died eight months...
Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 British crime black comedy film directed by RobertHamer. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness;...
British crime film directed by RobertHamer, starring John Mills, John McCallum and Elizabeth Sellars. The screenplay is by Hamer and Frank Harvey based on...
Niven's character for which RobertHamer had been hired for the task. Ultimately, his services were later turned away as Hamer had sunken into alcoholism...
grade now. — Fannie Lou HamerHamer and her husband wanted very much to start a family but in 1961, a white doctor subjected Hamer to a hysterectomy without...
RobertHamer. The film has been compared with the poetic realism movement in the French cinema of a few years earlier by the British writers Robert Murphy...
by RobertHamer and starring Mervyn Johns. It is based on a play with the same name by Roland Pertwee. It was the first feature film RobertHamer directed...
To Paris with Love is a 1955 British comedy film directed by RobertHamer and starring Alec Guinness, Odile Versois and Vernon Gray. A father and son play...
directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and RobertHamer. It stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave...
gunmen for Basil Dearden; and The Long Memory (1953), a thriller from RobertHamer. Mills had his first hit in a number of years with Hobson's Choice (1954)...
Shiner as the Man in Wilson's café. It was produced by Michael Balcon, RobertHamer and Ealing Studios. The film's title refers to a tradition in British...
Ealing, Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), with Alec Guinness directed by RobertHamer. Both films became regarded as comedy classics. Greenwood was Richard...
roles were in the British crime film The Long Memory (1953) directed by RobertHamer and the Norwegian crime film Struggle for Eagle Peak (1960) directed...
Charles Frend is given sole credit as director, the film was completed by RobertHamer after Frend became ill. The San Demetrio's chief engineer, Charles Pollard...
Julia Hamer-Bevis (née Hamer; born 19 October 1971), better known by her ring names Sweet Saraya and Saraya Knight, is an English professional wrestler...
a Stranger (1960) and School for Scoundrels (1960; taking over from RobertHamer, who was credited as sole director). One of his films, Man of Africa...
technicians. Directors were Alexander Mackendrick, Charles Crichton, RobertHamer, Charles Frend, Michael Relph and Henry Cornelius. Composers included...
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