Robert Burks
Camera
- Born
- July 4, 1909 · Chino Hills, California, USA
- Died
- May 13, 1968 (age 58)
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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.
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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.
Known for
Rear Window
August 1, 1954
Vertigo
May 28, 1958
North by Northwest
August 6, 1959
The Birds
March 28, 1963
Dial M for Murder
May 29, 1954
Strangers on a Train
June 27, 1951
To Catch a Thief
August 3, 1955
The Man Who Knew Too Much
May 16, 1956
Marnie
July 17, 1964
Arsenic and Old Lace
September 1, 1944
The Trouble with Harry
October 3, 1955
The Wrong Man
December 22, 1956
Behind the camera58
- 1967Waterhole #3 Director of Photography
- 1965A Patch of Blue Director of Photography
- 1965Once a Thief Director of Photography
- 1964Marnie Director of Photography
- 1963The Birds Director of Photography
- 1962The Music Man Director of Photography
- 1961The Pleasure of His Company Director of Photography
- 1960The Great Impostor Director of Photography
- 1960The Rat Race Director of Photography
- 1959But Not for Me