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Ghislain Cloquet (1924-1981)

Birthplace:
Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

Born:
April 18, 1924

Died:
November 2, 1981

Biography from TheMovieDB

Ghislain Cloquet (18 April 1924 – 2 November 1981) was a Belgian-born French cinematographer. Cloquet was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924. He went to Paris to study and became a French citizen in 1940.  Cloquet is known for his work with Robert Bresson, though he also collaborated with Claude Sautet, Jacques Demy, André Delvaux, Chris Marker, and Marguerite Duras. He shot Jacques Becker's last film, Le Trou, and then worked several times with Becker's son Jean, who was also Cloquet's brother-in-law. He also worked with several non-French directors, including Woody Allen (Love and Death), Arthur Penn (Four Friends) and, most notably, Roman Polanski, winning an Oscar (on his first nomination) for his work on Polanski's Tess, which he completed after the death of Geoffrey Unsworth.  Cloquet married into the Becker filmmaking family (which included directors Jacques and Jean, cinematographer Étienne, and actress Françoise Fabian), when he wed Jacques Becker's daughter Sophie, then a script girl.  Source: Article "Ghislain Cloquet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Camera Operator:
1956  Passionate Summer

Cinematography:
1953  Statues Also Die
1954  Pantomimes
1956  All the World's Memory
1956  Passionate Summer

Director:
1953  Statues Also Die
1954  Pantomimes
1956  All the World's Memory
1956  Passionate Summer

Director of Photography:
1953  Statues Also Die
1954  Pantomimes
1954  Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
1956  All the World's Memory
1956  Night and Fog
1956  Passionate Summer
1957  A Girl in a Pocket
1957  The Mystery of Workshop 15
1960  Description of a Struggle
1960  Le Bel Âge
1960  Le Trou
1960  The Big Risk
1961  A Man Named Rocca
1961  The American Beauty
1962  The Honors of War
1962  Vive Le Tour
1963  The Fire Within
1965  Mickey One
1965  The Chicken
1966  Au Hasard Balthazar
1966  The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
1967  Far from Vietnam
1967  Mouchette
1967  The Young Girls of Rochefort
1968  Marry Me! Marry Me!
1968  One Night... a Train
1968  The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1969  A Gentle Woman
1969  Josef von Sternberg, A Retrospective
1970  Donkey Skin
1970  The House of the Bories
1971  Appointment in Bray
1971  Jaune, Le Soleil
1972  Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
1973  At the Meeting with Joyous Death
1973  Belle
1973  Nathalie Granger
1973  The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1974  Say it with Flowers
1974  Woman of the Ganges
1975  Love and Death
1976  La Décharge
1976  Monsieur Albert
1979  Tess
1979  The Secret Life of Plants
1980  I Sent a Letter to My Love
1981  Four Friends

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