About
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,...
Known for
Le TrouMovie • 1960
The Young Girls of RochefortMovie • 1967
Night and FogMovie • 1956
Donkey SkinMovie • 1970
TessMovie • 1979
Au Hasard BalthazarMovie • 1966
MouchetteMovie • 1967
Nathalie GrangerMovie • 1973
Love and DeathMovie • 1975
The Fire WithinMovie • 1963
The Big RiskMovie • 1960
A Gentle WomanMovie • 1969
Far from VietnamMovie • 1967
Statues Also DieMovie • 1953
The Diary of an Innocent BoyMovie • 1968
Sans SoleilMovie • 1983
All the World's MemoryMovie • 1956
The Adventures of Arsène LupinMovie • 1957
Appointment in BrayMovie • 1971
Four FriendsMovie • 1981
Mickey OneMovie • 1965
A Man Named RoccaMovie • 1961
One Night... a TrainMovie • 1968
The ChickenMovie • 1965