Awards & Winners

Rudolph Cartier

Date of Birth 17-April-1904
Place of Birth Vienna
(Austria)
Nationality Austria, United Kingdom
Also know as Rudolph Katscher, Rudolf Carter, Rudolf Cartier, Rudolf Katscher
Profession Television Director, Film director, Screenwriter, Television Producer
Rudolph Cartier was an Austrian television director, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who worked predominantly in British television, exclusively for the BBC. He is best known for his 1950s collaborations with screenwriter Nigel Kneale, most notably the Quatermass serials and their 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. After studying architecture and then drama, Cartier began his career as a screenwriter and then film director in Berlin, working for UFA Studios. After a brief spell in the United States he moved to the United Kingdom in the 1930s, and began working for BBC Television in 1952. He went on to produce and direct over 120 productions in the next 24 years, ending his television career with the play Loyalties in 1976. Active in both dramatic programming and opera, Cartier won the equivalent of a BAFTA in 1957 for his work in the former, and one of his operatic productions was given an award at the 1962 Salzburg Festival. The British Film Institute's "Screenonline" website describes him as "a true pioneer of television", while the critic Peter Black once wrote that: "Nobody was within a mile of Rudolph Cartier in the trick of making a picture on a TV screen seem as wide and as deep as CinemaScope."

Awards by Rudolph Cartier

Check all the awards nominated and won by Rudolph Cartier.

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production Rembrandt

1958


British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production
British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Production