Jack Cardiff Articles

Annabella in René Clair's Le Million Though best remembered as Tyrone Power's first wife, Annabella (1907-1996) was a major star in France before she came to Hollywood in 1938 to play opposite her future husband and Loretta Young in 20th Century Fox's Suez. Those unacquainted with Annabella's work will be able to rectify that matter this evening, as Turner Classic Movies will be showing four [...]

Ken Annakin, best remembered for directing the big-budget 1965 adventure comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, died of natural causes on Wednesday, April 22, at his home in Beverly Hills. He had suffered a stroke and a heart attack in February, and had been in poor health since. Like fellow British filmmaker Jack Cardiff, who also died on April 22, Annakin was 94. [...]

Cinematographer and director Jack Cardiff, one of the early masters of color cinematography, has died. He was 94. Cardiff's work as a cinematographer was quite eclectic, ranging from his partnership with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in the British-made Black Narcissus (1945) and The Red Shoes (1948) to prestigious international productions such as John Huston's The African Queen (1951) and King Vidor's War and Peace [...]

Deborah Kerr, Kathleen Byron, David Farrar in Black Narcissus FILM Black Narcissus d, scr: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Cheyenne d: Raoul Walsh; scr: Alan Le May, Thames Williamson Crossfire d: Edward Dmytryk; scr: John Paxton Down to Earth d: Alexander Hall; scr: Edwin Blum, Don Hartman The Ghost and Mrs. Muir d: Joseph L. Mankiewicz; scr: Philip Dunne Life with Father d: Michael Curtiz; [...]