Trivia

Belgian-born cinematographer, trained in France and best known for his work for director Robert Bresson.

Father of Arthur Cloquet with Sophie Becker.

Cloquet married into the Becker filmmaking family (which included directors Jacques and Jean, cinematographer Étienne, and actress Françoise Fabian), when he wed Jacques Becker's daughter Sophie, then a script girl.

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.

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 went to Paris to study and became a French citizen in 1940.

He founded - with Raymond Ravar, Antoine Bonfanti & André Delvaux - the INSAS, the French-speaking Belgian film academy. He worked there for 2 months every year from 1962-74.

He also worked with several non-French directors, including Woody Allen (Love and Death) and Arthur Penn (Four Friends). But, most notably, with Roman Polanski, where he won an Oscar (on his first nomination) for Tess, which he completed after the death of Geoffrey Unsworth.

He was the uncle of director Yvan Lagrange.