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Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 1805 – 16 March 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is remembered for his invented character of Jorrocks, a vulgar but good-natured sporting cockney grocer.
26 nov 2023 · Veteran cinematographer Robert Surtees, ASC’s camerawork in The Graduate was described by AC editor-in-chief Herb A. Lightman as “rule-breaking mad, Mod visual acrobatics” in his Feb. 1968 article “Cinematographer with a Split Personality.”. He went on, describing that the 1967 feature has “been realized on film with a photographic ...
Surtees' The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham. In 1802, upon the death of his father, he inherited the family estate including Mainsforth Hall. Although a student of law he never practised as a lawyer, and instead devoted himself to the study of literature and antiquities. [4] By 1804, Surtees had begun collecting ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert L. Surtees, A.S.C. (August 9, 1906 – January 5, 1985) was an American cinematographer who won Academy Awards three times, for the films King Solomon's Mines, The Bad and the Beautiful and the 1959 version of Ben Hur. Robert L. Surtees began working in Hollywood as assistant cameraman to Gregg Toland, A.S.C. in the late 1920s, before moving to ...
13 mag 2024 · Robert Smith Surtees (born May 17, 1805, The Riding, Northumberland, Eng.—died March 16, 1864, Brighton, Sussex) was an English novelist of the chase and the creator of Mr. Jorrocks, one of the great comic characters of English literature, a Cockney grocer who is as blunt as John Bull and entirely given over to fox hunting.
14 set 2023 · About Robert Surtees. 1782-1857. In 1811 he married Elizabeth Cookson (1783-1847) and the couple had four children, three sons and a daughter. Their eldest son Robert Lambton Surtees (1812-1863) inherited the house in 1857 but he died six years later in 1863. Because he had not married and had no descendants the property was then passed to his ...
Robert L. Surtees's career as a cameraman spanned almost 50 years—from camera assistant in the late 1920s to cinematographer on his last film in 1978, from the silent era to the new Hollywood. A significant part of that career was as a cinematographer in the classic Hollywood style, that "invisible" style of filmmaking that dominated American films from the introduction of sound well into ...
