About

Known credits:
50
Birthday:
1904-04-17
Place of birth:
Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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Rudolph Cartier

Overview

Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Kacser, renamed himself in Germany to Rudolph Katscher; 17 April 1904 – 7 June 1994) was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC. He is best known for his 1950s collaborations with screenwriter Nigel Kneale, most notably the Quatermass serials and their 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

After studying architecture and then drama, Cartier began his career as a screenwriter and then film director in Berlin, working for UFA Studios. After a brief spell in the United States he moved to the United Kingdom in 1935. Initially failing to gain a foothold in the British film industry, he began working for BBC Television in the late 1930s (among other productions he was involved in the making of Rehearsal for a Drama, BBC 1939). The outbreak of war, however, meant that his contract was terminated; his television play The Dead Eye was stopped in the production stage. After the war, he occasionally worked for British films before he was again hired by the BBC in 1952. He soon became one of the public service broadcaster's leading directors and went on to produce and direct over 120 productions in the next 24 years, ending his television career with the play Loyalties in 1976.

Active in both dramatic programming and opera, Cartier won the equivalent of a BAFTA in 1957 for his work in the former, and one of his operatic productions was given an award at the 1962 Salzburg Festival. The British Film Institute's "Screenonline" website describes him as "a true pioneer of television", while the critic Peter Black once wrote that: "Nobody was within a mile of Rudolph Cartier in the trick of making a picture on a TV screen seem as wide and as deep as CinemaScope."

Known for

Acting
2005 Cartier and Kneale in Conversation Actor Self (archive footage) N/A
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2003 The Kneale Tapes Actor Self (archive footage) N/A
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1982 On the Road to Hollywood Actor N/A
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Directing
1976 Loyalties Directing Director N/A
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1970 Recht auf Gewissen Directing Director N/A
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1969 An Ideal Husband Directing Director 59
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1969 Der spanische Bürgerkrieg Directing Director N/A
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1968 The News-Benders Directing Director N/A
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1966 Level Seven Directing Director N/A
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1966 Alibi für James Directing Director N/A
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1964 The July Plot Directing Director N/A
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1964 Das Haus der Vergeltung Directing Director N/A
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1964 Legende einer Liebe Directing Director N/A
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1962 Der Kronanwalt Directing Director N/A
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1962 Wuthering Heights Directing Director 59
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1961 Anna Karenina Directing Director 59
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1961 Adventure Story Directing Director 59
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1958 Storm Over Jamaica Directing Director 59
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1956 Gaslicht Directing Director N/A
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1954 Nineteen Eighty-Four Directing Director 60
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1953 Wuthering Heights Directing Director N/A
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1952 The Dybbuk Directing Director N/A
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1935 Liebe auf Bretteln Directing Director N/A
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1933 Unsichtbare Gegner Directing Director 59
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1933 The Oil Sharks Directing Director N/A
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1932 Teilnehmer antwortet nicht Directing Director 59
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Writing
1960 The Avenger Writing Writer 59
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1948 Corridor of Mirrors Writing Screenplay 58
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1945 The Man from Morocco Writing Story 59
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1932 A Shot at Dawn Writing Writer N/A
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1931 The Man with the Claw Writing Writer N/A
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1931 Trapeze Writing Writer N/A
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1931 The Squeeker Writing Screenplay 58
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1931 Express 13 Writing Writer 58
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1931 Perpetrator wanted Writing Screenplay 59
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1930 The Shot in the Talker Studio Writing Writer 58
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1930 The Tiger Murder Case Writing Writer 58
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1929 Im Prater blühn wieder die Bäume Writing Writer N/A
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1929 Die Schmugglerbraut von Mallorca Writing Writer N/A
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1928 Tales from the Vienna Woods Writing Writer N/A
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Production
1962 Wuthering Heights Production Producer 59
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1961 Anna Karenina Production Producer 59
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1961 Adventure Story Production Producer 59
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1958 Quatermass and the Pit Production Producer 69
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1955 Quatermass II Production Producer 68
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1954 Nineteen Eighty-Four Production Producer 60
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1953 Wuthering Heights Production Producer N/A
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1952 The Dybbuk Production Producer N/A
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1951 Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared Production Producer 58
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1948 Corridor of Mirrors Production Producer 58
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