Biography
Ragnar Sørensen (February 16, 1915 – February 3, 1998) was a Norwegian cinematographer.Sørensen made his debut as a camera assistant for the Norwegian film comedy Den forsvundne pølsemaker (1941) and as a focus puller for the comedy En herre med bart (1942). He made his debut as chief photographer with Nils R. Müller's Så møtes vi imorgen (1946). He soon became one of Norway's leading photographers with major assignments for directors such as Arne Skouen, Kåre Bergstrøm, Rasmus Breistein, and Tancred Ibsen. He particularly excelled in the black-and-white medium, and his most famous assignments were Arne Skouen's debut film Gategutter (1949), Tancred Ibsen's Storfolk og småfolk (1951), Kåre Bergstrøm and Radoš Novaković's Blodveien (1955), and Bergstrøm's De dødes tjern (1958, which was also the first Norwegian film created with CinemaScope). In the 1960s, he was the cinematographer for Tancred Ibsen's Venner (1960), Nils Reinhardt Christensen's Line (1961), and Arne Skouen's Om Tilla (1963). In 1969 he was the cinematographer for Himmel og helvete, which was also his last feature film.
Sørensen was the cinematographer for 26 feature films, and he also directed some of the short documentary films about Oslo (collectively known as the Oslo films): Klipp fra Oslo kinematografers arkiv (1955), Nye forstadsbaner i Oslo (1958), and Oslo havn (1957).In 1961 he received the Aamot Award (Norwegian: Aamotstatuetten) for his work.
Filmography
all 31
Movies 31
Heaven and Hell (1969)
Pappa tar gull (1964)
About Tilla (1963)
Cold Tracks (1962)
Sønner av Norge kjøper bil (1962)
Oss atomforskere i mellom (1961)
The Passionate Demons (1961)
Sønner av Norge (1961)
Det store varpet (1960)
Millionær for en aften (1960)
Venner (1960)
Støv på hjernen (1959)
Lake of the Dead (1958)
Toya og Heidi (1957)
Nine Lives (1957)
Toya (1956)
Gylne ungdom (1956)
The Blood Road (1955)
Slik vil vi ha det (1955)
Det kunne vært deg (1952)
Andrine and Kjell (1952)
Storfolk og småfolk (1951)
42 99 00 (1950)
Boys from the Streets (1949)
Death Is a Caress (1949)
The Mysterious Apartment (1948)
Oslo Havn - byens hjerte (1948)
Så møtes vi i morgen (1946)
Kommer du, Elsa? (1944)
Den nye lægen (1943)
En herre med bart (1942)
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Known ForCamera
GenderMale
Birthday1915-02-16
Deathday1998-02-03 (82 years old)
CitizenshipsNorway
AwardsFilmkritikerprisen
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