Robert Burks
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From 1944 through 1949, California-born Robert Burks headed the Special Photographic Effects division at Warner Bros., specializing in forced-perspective miniatures. A full director of photography by 1949, Burks worked with Alfred Hitchcock on the director's fourth Warners production, Strangers on a Train. Hitchcock liked Burks' crisp, clean, deep-focus visual style, retaining the cameraman's services for the rest of his Warners films. When Hitchcock moved to Paramount, Burks moved along with him, winning an Academy Award for 1955's To Catch a Thief. When Hitchcock set up shop at Universal in the early 1960s, Burks collaborated on such pictures as The Birds (1963) and Marnie (1964) -- both of which were heavily reliant on the sort of miniature and process work in which Burks specialized in his earliest Warner Bros. days. Robert Burks died along with his wife in a fire at his Los Angeles home in July of 1968. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviFilmography:
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| Robert Burks, A.S.C. | |
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| Born | July 4, 1909 |
| Died | May 13, 1968 (aged 58) |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
Robert Burks, A.S.C. (4 July 1909 – 13 May 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 won an Oscar for his work on Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955).
Burks and his wife died in a house fire in 1968.
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