Rudolph Cartier

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1904-04-17 (90 years old)

Deathday

1994-06-08

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Rudolph Cartier

Biography

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 ...

Acting

2003

The Kneale Tapes

as Self (archive footage)

2005

Cartier and Kneale in Conversation

as Self (archive footage)

Production

1932

1948

1956

Gaslicht

as Director

1962

1953

1953

1961

Anna Karenina

as Director

1966

Alibi für James

as Director

1960

The Avenger

as Writer

1970

1948

Corridor of Mirrors

as Screenplay

1931

The Squeeker

as Screenplay

1933

The Oil Sharks

as Director

1935

1969

An Ideal Husband

as Director

1958

1954

1954

1952

The Dybbuk

as Director

1952

The Dybbuk

as Producer

1961

Adventure Story

as Director

1976

Loyalties

as Director

1961

Anna Karenina

as Producer

1964

The July Plot

as Director

1966

Level Seven

as Director

1931

Express 13

as Writer

1933

1962

Der Kronanwalt

as Director

1964

1931

Perpetrator wanted

as Screenplay

1962

1931

Trapeze

as Writer

1968

The News-Benders

as Director

1961

Adventure Story

as Producer

1964

1957

Ordeal by Fire

as Director

1957

Ordeal by Fire

as Producer

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