Person Details

Birthday: 1924-04-18 00:17:11

Death: 1981-11-02 00:17:11

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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Movie Involvements: 49

TV Involvements: 1


Most Famous Work

Biography

Ghislain Cloquet (18 April 1924 – 2 November 1981) was a Belgian-born French cinematographer. Cloquet was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924. He went to Paris to study and became a French citizen in 1940. Cloquet is known for his work with Robert Bresson, though he also collaborated with Claude Sautet, Jacques Demy, André Delvaux, Chris Marker, and Marguerite Duras. He shot Jacques Becker's last film, Le Trou, and then worked several times with Becker's son Jean, who was also Cloquet's brother-in-law. He also worked with several non-French directors, most notably Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and Arthur Penn (Four Friends). He won an Oscar in 1981 (on his first nomination) for Polanski's Tess, which he completed after the death of Geoffrey Unsworth. Cloquet married into the Becker filmmaking family (which included directors Jacques and Jean, cinematographer Étienne, and actress Françoise Fabian), when he wed Jacques Becker's daughter Sophie, then a script girl. Source: Article "Ghislain Cloquet" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Most Famous Work

Tess
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7

Tess

(1979) Director of Photography
Le Trou
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8

Le Trou

(1960) Director of Photography
Love and Death
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8

Love and Death

(1975) Director of Photography
The Young Girls of Rochefort
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8

The Young Girls of Rochefort

(1967) Director of Photography
Au Hasard Balthazar
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8

Au Hasard Balthazar

(1966) Director of Photography
Mouchette
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8

Mouchette

(1967) Director of Photography
Donkey Skin
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7

Donkey Skin

(1970) Director of Photography
Night and Fog
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8

Night and Fog

(1955) Director of Photography

Acting

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1957 Director of Photography
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1956 Camera Operator
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1954 Director of Photography
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Crew

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1956 Cinematography
1954 Cinematography
1953 Cinematography
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Directing

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1953 Director
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