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 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."
Filmography
all 59
Movies 48
Director 30
Writer 23
TV Shows 11
self 3
Producer 3
Cartier and Kneale in Conversation (2005)
The Kneale Tapes (2003)
On the Road to Hollywood (1982)
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Recht auf Gewissen (1970)
An Ideal Husband (1969)
Der spanische Bürgerkrieg (1969)
The News-Benders (1968)
Alibi für James (1966)
BBC Play of the Month (1965)
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965)
Out of the Unknown (1965)
The July Plot (1964)
Das Haus der Vergeltung (1964)
Legende einer Liebe (1964)
Der Kronanwalt (1962)
Wuthering Heights (1962)
Z-Cars (1962)
Anna Karenina (1961)
Adventure Story (1961)
Maigret (1960)
Sunday-Night Play (1960)
The Avenger (1960)
Quatermass and the Pit (1958)
Storm Over Jamaica (1958)
Gaslicht (1956)
Quatermass II (1955)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)
Wuthering Heights (1953)
The Quatermass Experiment (1953)
The Dybbuk (1952)
Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared (1951)
Sunday Night Theatre (1950)
Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
The Man from Morocco (1945)
Liebe auf Bretteln (1935)
Unsichtbare Gegner (1933)
The Oil Sharks (1933)
L'Étoile de Valencia (1933)
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht (1932)
Gunshot at dawn (1932)
A Shot at Dawn (1932)
The Pranks (1931)
The Man with the Claw (1931)
Trapeze (1931)
The Squeeker (1931)
Tropical Nights (1931)
Express 13 (1931)
King Fu's yellow house (1931)
Rio's yellow house (1931)
Perpetrator wanted (1931)
The Gripper (1930)
The Shot in the Talker Studio (1930)
The Tiger Murder Case (1930)
Im Prater blühn wieder die Bäume (1929)
Die Schmugglerbraut von Mallorca (1929)
Maskottchen (1929)
Tales from the Vienna Woods (1928)
Das Spiel mit der Liebe (1928)
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GenderMale
Birthday1904-04-17
Deathday1994-06-07 (90 years old)
Birth NameRudolph Katscher
Birth PlaceVienna, Austria
CitizenshipsAustria
Also Known AsRudolph Kacser, Rudolf Katscher, Rudolf Cartier, Rudolf Carter
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