Alberto Cavalcanti Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Born in Brazil in 1897, Alberto Cavalcanti began his film career in France in 1920, working as writer, art director and director. He directed the avant-garde documentary Nothing But Time (1926) ("Nothing but Time"), a portrait of the lives of Parisian workers in a single day. He moved to England in 1933 to join the GPO Film Unit under John Grierson...
February 6, 1897, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died
August 23, 1982, Paris, France
Place Of Birth
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Profession
Director, Producer, Writer
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Fact
1
Best remembered as the director of the terrifying and now much copied ventriloquist's dummy sequence in the 1945 Ealing Studio film Dead of Night (1945).
2
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 107-112. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
3
Retrospective at the São Paulo International Film Festival. [2002]
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Um Homem e o Cinema
1977
Documentary
La visite de la vieille dame
1971
TV Movie
Les empaillés
1969
TV Movie
Story of Israel
1967
Yerma
1962
The Monster of Highgate Ponds
1961
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
1960
as Cavalcanti
La prima notte
1959
Die Windrose
1957
Documentary Russian segment
A Real Woman
1954
Song of the Sea
1953
Simon the One-Eyed
1952
For Them That Trespass
1949
as Cavalcanti
Affairs of a Rogue
1948
I Became a Criminal
1947
as Cavalcanti
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947
as Cavalcanti
Dead of Night
1945
segments "Christmas Party", "The Ventriloquist's Dummy", as Cavalcanti
Champagne Charlie
1944
as Cavalcanti
The Halfway House
1944
uncredited
Waterlight
1943
Documentary
The Sky's the Limit
1943/II
Short
Alice in Switzerland
1942
Documentary
Film and Reality
1942
Documentary compilation
Went the Day Well?
1942
as Cavalcanti
Yellow Caesar
1941
Documentary short
La Cause Commune
1940
Documentary short
A Midsummer Day's Work
1939
Documentary short
Men of the Alps
1939
Documentary uncredited
Four Barriers
1938
Documentary short
Mony a Pickle
1938
Short segment director
Happy in the Morning: A Film Fantasy
1938
Short
The Line to Tschierva Hut
1937
Documentary
Who Writes to Switzerland
1937
Documentary
We Live in Two Worlds
1937
Documentary short
Message from Geneva
1936
Documentary
Coal Face
1935
Documentary short
New Rates
1934
Documentary
The Glorious Sixth of June
1934
Short
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
1934
Short as A. Cavalcanti
Coralie et Cie
1934
Revue montmartroise
1934
Documentary
Plaisirs défendus
1933
Documentary
Le mari garçon
1933
En lisant le journal
1932
Documentary
Le jour du frotteur
1932
Documentary
Le truc du Brésilien
1932
as Cavalcanti
Tour de chant
1932
Documentary
À mi-chemin du ciel
1931
Les vacances du diable
1931
Dans une île perdue
1931
Vous verrez la semaine prochaine
1930
Documentary
A Canção do Berço
1930
Toute sa vie
1930
Little Red Riding Hood
1930
La jalousie du barbouillé
1929
Le capitaine Fracasse
1929
Le train sans yeux
1929
En rade
1928
Yvette
1928
La p'tite Lili
1927
Short
Rien que les heures
1926
Documentary
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Real Woman
1954
producer
Song of the Sea
1953
producer
Santuário
1952
Documentary short producer
Painel
1951
Documentary short producer
Terra É Sempre Terra
1951
producer
Caiçara
1950
producer
The Halfway House
1944
associate producer - as Cavalcanti
Greek Testament
1943
Documentary producer - as Cavalcanti
The Foreman Went to France
1942
associate producer - as Cavalcanti
The Big Blockade
1942
associate producer - as Cavalcanti
Find, Fix and Strike
1942
Documentary short producer
Men of the Lightship
1941
Documentary short producer
Salvage with a Smile
1940
Short associate producer
Spring Offensive
1940
Documentary short producer - as Cavalcanti
Sea Fort
1940
Documentary short producer
French Communique
1940
Documentary short producer
Squadron 992
1940
Documentary short producer - as Cavalcanti
Young Veteran
1940
Documentary short producer
The First Days
1939
Documentary short producer - as Cavalcanti
Spare Time
1939
Documentary short producer - uncredited
Forty Million People
1939
Documentary short producer
Love on the Wing
1939
Short producer - uncredited
Men in Danger
1939
Documentary short producer
The City
1939/II
Documentary short producer
N or NW
1938
Short supervising producer
Speaking from America
1938
Documentary short producer
North Sea
1938
Documentary short producer - as Cavalcanti
The HPO
1938
Short producer
Happy in the Morning: A Film Fantasy
1938
Short producer
Big Money
1937
Documentary short producer - as Cavalcanti
Book Bargain
1937
Documentary short producer
Daily Round
1937
Short producer
Roadways
1937
Documentary short producer - as Cavalcanti
The Saving of Bill Blewitt
1937
Short producer
Rainbow Dance
1936
Short producer - uncredited
BBC: The Voice of Britain
1935
Documentary producer - uncredited
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
1960
as Cavalcanti
Die Windrose
1957
Documentary Brazilian segment
A Real Woman
1954
story
Song of the Sea
1953
Simon the One-Eyed
1952
Ângela
1951
Caiçara
1950
story
Happy in the Morning: A Film Fantasy
1938
Short
Coal Face
1935
Documentary short uncredited
Votre sourire
1934
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
1934
Short uncredited
Coralie et Cie
1934
À mi-chemin du ciel
1931
adaptation
Les vacances du diable
1931
screenplay
Little Red Riding Hood
1930
loose adaptation
La jalousie du barbouillé
1929
writer
Le capitaine Fracasse
1929
writer
En rade
1928
writer
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Night Mail
1936
Short documentary uncredited
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
1934
Short uncredited
Little Red Riding Hood
1930
Le train sans yeux
1929
Sound Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Night Mail
1936
Short documentary sound director
Granton Trawler
1934
Documentary short sound designer - uncredited
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
1934
Short sound designer - uncredited
The Song of Ceylon
1934
Short documentary sound supervisor - uncredited
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Little People
1927
L'inondation
1924
Résurrection
1923
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Lettres de Stalingrad
1969
Astronomer
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
1934
Short
J. Leviticus (uncredited)
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Turned Out Nice Again
1941
consultant art director - uncredited
The Ghost of St. Michael's
1941
consultant art director - uncredited
Art Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Feu Mathias Pascal
1926
L'inhumaine
1924
Assistant Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Feu Mathias Pascal
1926
assistant director
La galerie des monstres
1924
assistant director
Costume Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Eldorado
1921
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Arena
1977
TV Series documentary
Himself
Um Homem e o Cinema
1977
Documentary
Himself
Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait
1975
TV Series documentary
Himself
Grierson
1973
Documentary
Himself
Cinéastes de notre temps
1968
TV Series documentary
Himself
Paris-Cinéma
1929
Documentary short
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life