
Robert Hamer
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday31 March 1911
Died4 December 1963 (age 52)
Place of birthKidderminster, Worcestershire, England, UK
Known credits23
Biography
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 down (expelled) from Cambridge, and began his career in 1934 as a cutting room assistant and from 1935 worked as a film editor involved with such films as Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn (1939) co-produced by Charles Laughton. At the end of the 1930s, he worked on documentaries for the GPO Film Unit. When hi…

How to Make a Killing
2026 · Original Film Writer

A Jolly Bad Fellow
1964 · Writer

School for Scoundrels
1960 · Director

The Scapegoat
1959 · Director

The Scapegoat
1959 · Screenplay

Bernard Shaw
1957 · Director

To Paris with Love
1955 · Director
Rowlandson's England
1955 · Script

Father Brown
1954 · Screenplay

Father Brown
1954 · Director

The Long Memory
1953 · Screenplay

The Long Memory
1953 · Director

His Excellency
1952 · Screenplay

His Excellency
1952 · Director

The Spider and the Fly
1949 · Director

Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · Director

Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · Screenplay

It Always Rains on Sunday
1947 · Director

It Always Rains on Sunday
1947 · Writer

Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945 · Director

Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945 · Additional Writing

Dead of Night
1945 · Director

Fiddlers Three
1944 · Associate Producer

San Demetrio London
1943 · Producer

San Demetrio London
1943 · Writer

The Foreman Went to France
1942 · Editor

Ships with Wings
1941 · Editor

Turned Out Nice Again
1941 · Editor
French Communique
1940 · Editor

Jamaica Inn
1939 · Editor

St. Martin's Lane
1938 · Editor
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