Robert Burks

Biography

Robert Burks, A.S.C.was an American cinematographer. He began his career as a special effects technician in the late 1930s before becoming a director of photography in the mid 1940s.

Burks collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on twelve of the director's films and he won an Oscar for his work on Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief (1955).

Burks died with his wife in a house fire in 1968.

Filmography

With Hitchcock...

• Strangers on a Train (1951) - director of photography
• I Confess (1953) - director of photography
• Dial M for Murder (1954) - director of photography
• Rear Window (1954) - director of photography
• The Trouble with Harry (1955) - director of photography
• To Catch a Thief (1955) - director of photography
• The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - director of photography
• The Wrong Man (1956) - director of photography
• Vertigo (1958) - director of photography
• North by Northwest (1959) - director of photography
• The Birds (1963) - director of photography
• Marnie (1964) - director of photography

Documentaries

He has appeared in the following Hitchcockian documentaries...

• Obsessed with Vertigo - New Life for Hitchcock's Masterpiece (1997) - archive footage

See Also...

• quotations relating to Robert Burks

Links

• Internet Movie Database
• Wikipedia
• Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographer: Robert Burks

born 04/Jul/1909 Chino, California, USA died 13/May/1968 Newport Beach, California, USA