Robert Burks
Age: 58 | From: Chino Hills, California, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1909-07-04 22:17:26
Death: 1968-05-13 22:17:26
Aliases: Leslie Robert Burks , L. Robert Burks
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Chino Hills, California, USA
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Movie Involvements: 52
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Burks, A.S.C. (July 4, 1909 – May 11, 1968) was an American cinematographer known for being proficient in virtually every genre and equally at home with black-and-white or color. Burks began his career as a special effects technician in the late 1930s before becoming a director of photography in the mid-1940s. His first credit in this field was Jammin' the Blues (1944), a short film featuring leading jazz musicians of the day. Burks collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on twelve of the director's films. Beginning with Strangers on a Train in 1951 (which secured him an Oscar nomination) through Marnie in 1964, he shot every Hitchcock film except Psycho in 1960. Additional credits include The Fountainhead, Beyond the Forest, The Glass Menagerie, The Spirit of St. Louis, The Music Man, and A Patch of Blue. Burks and his wife died in a house fire in 1968 in Huntington Harbor, California.
Most Famous Work
Rear Window
(1954) Director of Photography
Vertigo
(1958) Director of Photography
The Birds
(1963) Director of Photography
North by Northwest
(1959) Director of Photography
Hondo
(1953) Director of Photography
Dial M for Murder
(1954) Director of Photography
Marnie
(1964) Director of Photography
Strangers on a Train
(1951) Director of PhotographyActing
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Camera
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| 1952 | Director of Photography | |
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| 1944 | Director of Photography | |
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| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1961 | Cinematography | |
| 1952 | Special Effects | |
| 1949 | Special Effects | |
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| 1945 | Special Effects | |
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| 1941 | Special Effects | |
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