From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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 18861972 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 Hitchcocks Jamaica Inn 1939 coproduced by Charles Laughton At the end of the 1930s he worked on documentaries for the GPO Film Unit When his boss at the GPO Alberto Cavalcanti moved to Ealing Studios Hamer was invited to join him there He gained some experience as a director by substituting for colleagues and contributed the haunted mirror sequence to Dead of Night 1945 He followed this with the three Ealing films under his own name for which he is best remembered Pink String and Sealing Wax 1946 It Always Rains on Sunday 1947 both featuring Googie Withers and the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 with Dennis Price and Alec Guinness Hamer died of pneumonia at the age of 52 at St Thomass Hospital in London An alcoholic who was homosexual in an era when it was taboo in the UK Hamers career now looks like the most serious miscarriage of talent in the postwar British cinema according to film critic David Thomson Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Hamer licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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