Robert Hamer
March 31, 1911 · 115 years old
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert James Hamer (31 March 1911, Kidderminster, Worcestershire – 4 December 1963, London) was a British film director and screenwriter. He was the son of the actor Gerald Hamer (1886-1972). Hamer was won a scholarship to Cambridge University but was sent do…
Known For
6 titles
Kind Hearts and Coronets
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
School for Scoundrels
A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
The Scapegoat
An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him.
Pink String and Sealing Wax
A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.
San Demetrio London
Rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned.