Robert Hamer

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Robert Hamer (31 March 1911 – 4 December 1963) was a film director and screenwriter.

Born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England, he is best known for his work at Ealing Studios in the 1940s, including the celebrated comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), with Dennis Price and Alec Guinness.

Hamer died of pneumonia at the age of 52 at St Thomas's Hospital in London.

[edit] Selected filmography

• Dead of Night (1945) (as co-director)
• Pink String and Sealing Wax (1946)
• It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
• The Spider and the Fly (1949)
• Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
• The Long Memory (1952)
• Father Brown (1954)
• The Scapegoat (1959)
• School for Scoundrels (1960)

[edit] External links

• Robert Hamer at the Internet Movie Database
• British Film Institute: Screen online
• Robert Hamer's Blog