Rudolph Cartier

Biography

Rudolph Cartier (born Rudolph Kacser, renamed himself in Germany to Rudolph Katscher; 17 April 1904 – 7 June 1994) was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC. He is best known for his 1950s collaborations with screenwriter Nigel Kneale, most notably the Quatermass serials and their 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. After studying architecture and then drama, Cartier began his career as a screenwriter and then film director in Berlin, working for UFA Studios. After a brief spell in the United States he moved to the United Kingdom in 1935. Initially failing to gain a foothold in the British film industry, he began working for BBC Television in the late 1930s (among other productions he was involved in the making of Rehearsal for a Drama, BBC 1939). The outbreak of war, however, meant that his contract was terminated; his television play The Dead Eye was stopped in the production stage. After the war, he occasionally worked for British films before he was again hired by the BBC in 1952. He soon became one of the public service broadcaster's l…

Directed

1. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) — Director
2. Quatermass and the Pit (1958) — Director
3. Quatermass II (1955) — Director
4. The Quatermass Experiment (1953) — Director
5. Maigret (1960) — Director
6. Fall of Eagles (1974) — Director
7. Out of the Unknown (1965) — Director
8. BBC Play of the Month (1965) — Director
9. Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965) — Director
10. Z-Cars (1962) — Director
11. Anna Karenina (1961) — Director
12. The Wednesday Play (1964) — Director
13. Theatre 625 (1964) — Director
14. Teilnehmer antwortet nicht (1932) — Director
15. Suspense (1962) — Director
16. Wuthering Heights (1962) — Director
17. An Ideal Husband (1969) — Director
18. Storm Over Jamaica (1958) — Director
19. Adventure Story (1961) — Director
20. Invisible Opponent (1933) — Director
21. The News-Benders (1968) — Director
22. Sunday Night Theatre (1950) — Director
23. Wuthering Heights (1953) — Director
24. The Oil Sharks (1933) — Director
25. Liebe auf Bretteln (1935) — Director
26. The July Plot (1964) — Director
27. Level Seven (1966) — Director
28. Legende einer Liebe (1964) — Director
29. The Naked Sun (1969) — Director
30. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1958) — Director
31. The Fanatics (1968) — Director
32. The Creature (1955) — Director
33. The Moment of Truth (1955) — Director
34. It Is Midnight, Dr. Schweitzer (1953) — Director
35. Late Night Horror (1968) — Director
36. Gaslicht (1956) — Director
37. Alibi für James (1966) — Director
38. Recht auf Gewissen (1970) — Director
39. Der spanische Bürgerkrieg (1969) — Director
40. The Dybbuk (1952) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Cartier and Kneale in Conversation (2005) — Self (archive footage)
2. The Kneale Tapes (2003) — Self (archive footage)
3. On the Road to Hollywood (1982)