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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.
15 credits across 3 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | A Jolly Bad Fellow | Writer | Film |
| 1960 | School for Scoundrels | Director | Film |
| 1959 | The Scapegoat | Director | Film |
| 1955 | To Paris with Love | Director | Film |
| 1954 | Father Brown | Director | Film |
| 1953 | The Long Memory | Director | Film |
| 1949 | Kind Hearts and Coronets | Director | Film |
| 1949 | The Spider and the Fly | Director | Film |
| 1947 | It Always Rains on Sunday | Director | Film |
| 1947 | It Always Rains on Sunday | Writer | Film |
| 1945 | Dead of Night | Director | Film |
| 1945 | Pink String and Sealing Wax | Director | Film |
| 1944 | Fiddlers Three | Associate Producer | Film |
| 1943 | San Demetrio London | Writer | Film |
| 1943 | San Demetrio London | Producer | Film |
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