Biography
Beda Batka (August 21, 1922 – June 6, 1994) was a Czech and American cinematographer and a teacher in the Tisch School of the Arts.
Batka started his career as a camera operator on the movie On the Right Track (1948). In Czechoslovakia he frequently worked with director Jiří Weiss. Batka told Weiss a story that happened at his wife's workplace. Weiss decided to use this story as a basis for his film Ninety Degrees in the Shade. In 1967 Batka was a director of photography for František Vláčil's Marketa Lazarová, which was later voted the best Czech movie of all time. After he emigrated to USA, he taught cinematography at the Tisch School of the Arts. Among his students were Barry Sonnenfeld, Bill Pope, and the late Ken Kelsch. The best known movie he worked on in America was Little Darlings.
Filmography
all 25
Movies 25
Director 4
Writer 1
Little Darlings (1980)
The Orphan (1979)
In Pursuit of Treasure (1972)
Čtyři v kruhu (1968)
Marketa Lazarová (1967)
90° in the Shade (1965)
Fear (1964)
Láska nebeská (1964)
Zajatci tmy (1964)
The Golden Fern (1963)
Promiňte, omyl! (1963)
The Coward (1962)
Where an Alibi Is Not Everything (1961)
Policejní hodina (1961)
Prázdniny v oblacích (1960)
A 105 p.c. Alibi (1959)
Hry a sny (1959)
Kasaři (1958)
Bomba (1958)
Johnny's Journey (1957)
Sons of the Mountains (1956)
Štika v rybníce (1952)
Victorious Wings (1951)
Na dobré stopě (1949)
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Known ForCamera
GenderMale
Birthday1922-08-21
Deathday1994-06-06 (71 years old)
Birth PlacePrague, Czech Republic
CitizenshipsCzechoslovakia, Czech Republic
Also Known AsBedřich Baťka, Beda F. Batka
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