Georges Perinal

Director Of Photography

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George Perinal

Birth Place

Paris, FR

Died

April 23, 1965

Biography

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Began his career as a projectionist in 1913 and went on to photograph some of the finest French films of the early 1930s, by directors including Jean Cocteau ("Blood of a Poet" 1930) and Rene Clair ("A nous la liberte" 1931, "Le million" 1932). Perinal began working with Alexander Korda in London in 1933 and applied his talents to a succession of fine English films, notably the Oscar-win...

Filmography

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The Epic That Never Was (I, Claudius) (1965)

Director Of Photography ("I, Claudius")

Immoral Charge (1962)

Director of Photography

Once More, With Feeling! (1960)

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)

Director of Photography

Oscar Wilde (1960)

Director Of Photography

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1959)

Director Of Photography

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Things to Come (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Stand to Arms

Things to Come (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, 1940, War

Biography

Began his career as a projectionist in 1913 and went on to photograph some of the finest French films of the early 1930s, by directors including Jean Cocteau ("Blood of a Poet" 1930) and Rene Clair ("A nous la liberte" 1931, "Le million" 1932). Perinal began working with Alexander Korda in London in 1933 and applied his talents to a succession of fine English films, notably the Oscar-winning "The Thief of Bagdad" (1940). He worked in France and Hollywood in the late 1950s.

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Epic That Never Was (I, Claudius) (1965)

Director Of Photography ("I, Claudius")

Immoral Charge (1962)

Director of Photography

Once More, With Feeling! (1960)

The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)

Director of Photography

Oscar Wilde (1960)

Director Of Photography

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1959)

Director Of Photography

Bonjour Tristesse (1958)

tom thumb (1958)

Director of Photography

Saint Joan (1957)

A King in New York (1957)

Director Of Photography

Satellite in the Sky (1956)

Director Of Photography

Three Cases of Murder (1955)

The Woman For Joe (1955)

Cinematographer

Babes in Bagdad (1952)

Director of Photography

I'll Never Forget You (1951)

Director of Photography

No Highway in the Sky (1951)

Director of Photography

The Mudlark (1950)

Director of Photography

My Daughter Joy (1950)

Cinematographer

The Forbidden Street (1949)

Director of Photography

The Fallen Idol (1948)

Director Of Photography

Vacation from Marriage (1945)

Suicide Squadron (1942)

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

The Four Feathers (1939)

The Challenge (1939)

Prison Without Bars (1939)

The Drum (1938)

Murder on Diamond Row (1937)

Dark Journey (1937)

Under the Red Robe (1937)

The Girl from Maxim's (1936)

Things to Come (1936)

Rembrandt (1936)

Escape Me Never (1935)

Sanders of the River (1935)

The Private Life of Henry VIII (1934)

The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)

July 14th (1933)

Director Of Photography

The Blood of a Poet (1932)

Director Of Photography

David Golder (1930)

Cinematographer

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

That Dangerous Age (1949)

À nous la liberté (1931)

Le Million (1931)

Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)

Life Events

1923

First short film photographed, "Chartres"

1930

First effort as director of photography for Rene Clair, "Sous les toits de Paris/Under the Roofs of Paris"

1933

Left France for England as cinematographer Alexander Korda's "The Private Life of Henry VIII"

1960

Last film assignment as cinematographer, "The Day They Robbed The Bank of England"

Videos

Things to Come (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Stand to Arms The citizens of "Everytown" are both warned and reassured as they prepare for attack, while Cabal (Raymond Massey) and wife (Sophie Stewart) muse about their future in H.G. Wells Things to Come, 1936.

Things to Come (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, 1940, War The ominous credit and opening sequence from Things to Come, 1936, from H.G. Wells' screenplay and novel, produced by Alexander Korda and directed by famed production designer William Cameron Menzies.

Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Whatever You Shoot Young Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) returned from the Boer War, welcomed by Aunt Margaret (Muriel Aked, with servant Phyllis Morris) with a suggestion he follows, time flying, trick photography, from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, 1943.

Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Are Livingstone, I Presume? Candy (Roger Livesey) meets Edith (Deborah Kerr) in Berlin, just about perfectly cast in her first appearance in her earliest (of three) characters in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, 1943.

Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Total War, Isn't It? A variation on the usual "Archers" open (with no arrow!), then a clever embroidery theme for the credits, then the roaring military-musical motorcycling sequence, opening Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's celebrated The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, 1943.

Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Fighting Positions Candy (Roger Livesey) is obliged to duel a German officer (Anton Walbrook) drawn by lot, advised by Colonel Borg (Theodor Zichy), memorably staged by director Michael Powell, in the Boer War segment of The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, 1943.

Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Forty Years Ago Part of the opening narrative device, home guard squad led by "Spud" Wilson (James McKechnie) arresting the elder General Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) at a Turkish bath, from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, 1943.

Four Feathers, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Plenty For Other Men The four young officers introduced as adults, Ralph Richardson as Captain John, John Clements, Jack Allen and Donald Gray as lieutenants Harry, Willoughby and Peter, tension as their mission to Egypt is revealed, in Zoltan Korda's version of the A.E.W. Mason novel, The Four Feathers, 1939.

Four Feathers, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) If We Were Free London, 1895, Harry (John Clements) discovers his miscalculation, wife Ethne (June Duprez) not welcoming his resignation from the army, her father (C. Aubrey Smith) just returned from seeing off his comrades, who have sent a message, a pivotal moment in Zoltan Korda's The Four Feathers, 1939.

Four Feathers, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Captain Durrance British Captain Durrance (Ralph Richardson) on patrol in the Sudan, locates the enemy but fails to make it back to warn his colleagues, director Zoltan Korda shooting in Technicolor on the genuine location, in The Four Feathers, 1939.

Thief Of Bagdad, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) This Is No Dog Plenty of spectacle in the opening scene, introducing the evil magician Jaffar (Conrad Veidt) arriving in Basra, and the not-much-explained "Blind Man" (John Justin), in Alexander Korda's The Thief Of Bagdad, 1940.

Thief Of Bagdad, The (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Free, Free, After Two Thousand Years Abu (Sabu), shipwrecked by his evil magician enemy, discovers a bottle, the not overly bright Djinn (Rex Ingram) inside, one of the more famous effects from producer Alexander Korda's The Thief Of Bagdad, 1940.

Bonjour Tristesse - (Original Trailer) A jealous teenage girl (Jean Seberg) plots to end the remarriage of her father (David Niven) in Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958).

Vacation From Marriage - (U.S. Trailer) After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion in Vacation from Marriage (1945) starring Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr.

tom thumb - (Re-Issue Trailer) A six-inch-tall boy takes on a pair of comical crooks in the fantasy film, tom thumb (1958), directed by George Pal and starring Russ Tamblyn.

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