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Alfred Gilks is a Scriptwriter, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 29 december 1891 at California (USA)

Alfred Gilks

Alfred Gilks
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Nationality USA
Birth 29 december 1891 at California (USA)
Death 6 september 1970 (at 78 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Alfred Gilks (parfois crédité Al Gilks ou Alfred L. Gilks), né le 29 décembre 1891 à Los Angeles en Californie, mort le 6 septembre 1970 à Los Angeles — Quartier de Hollywood (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain, membre de l'ASC.

Biography

Alfred Gilks débute comme chef opérateur en 1920 et collabore à près de quarante films muets jusqu'en 1928. Les vingt-cinq premiers (sauf un) sont réalisés par Sam Wood, dont dix avec Gloria Swanson (ex. : Le Droit d'aimer en 1922, avec également Rudolph Valentino). Il poursuit sa carrière après le passage au parlant, régulièrement jusqu'en 1939, puis de 1947 (avec Mariona Rebull, film espagnol) à 1956, année où il se retire. Son dernier film, comme photographe de seconde équipe, est La Prisonnière du désert de John Ford, avec John Wayne et Natalie Wood. En tout, outre le film espagnol pré-cité, il contribue à quatre-vingts films américains.

Parmi les autres réalisateurs aux côtés desquels il travaille, citons Leo McCarey (ex. : L'Extravagant Mr Ruggles en 1935, avec Charles Laughton et Mary Boland) et Vincente Minnelli (Un Américain à Paris en 1951, avec Gene Kelly et Leslie Caron), entre autres. Ce dernier film lui permet de gagner en 1952 l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie.

À la télévision, en 1955, Alfred Gilks est directeur de la photographie sur deux séries, dont Le Choix de.

Best films

An American in Paris (1951)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Sam Wood
Sam Wood
(10 films)
Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor
(9 films)
Guy Oliver
Guy Oliver
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alfred Gilks (44 films)

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Scriptwriter

Fiesta
Fiesta (1941)
, 45minutes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Western
Themes Musical films
Actors Jorge Negrete, Ann Ayars, Armida, George Givot, Antonio Moreno
Rating49% 2.4508852.4508852.4508852.4508852.450885
Don Juan Hernández's niece Cholita returns to her village from Mexico City announcing she will not marry José, her village boyfriend, bur rather the radio star Fernando Gómez who has accompanied her home. José enlists two of his friends to pose as bandits to frighten the arrogant and cowardly Fernando and win Cholita back.

Cameraman

Bright Road, 1h9
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about education
Actors Dorothy Dandridge, Barbara Randolph, Harry Belafonte, Maidie Norman, Robert Horton, Vivian Dandridge
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.3434753.3434753.3434753.3434753.343475
Jane Richards (Dorothy Dandridge) is a new teacher, beginning her career at a rural African-American elementary school in Alabama. One of the students in her fourth-grade class is C.T. Young (Philip Hepburn), who, although bright and generally not a troublemaker, is nonetheless markedly uninterested in school and has become accustomed to taking two years to advance through each grade level. Miss Richards becomes determined to get through to C.T. and have her class be the first that does not take him two years to complete, though the school's other teachers have given up on him as "a backward child". The school's principal (Harry Belafonte) also harbors his doubts about C.T., but he admires Miss Richards' enthusiasm and endorses her efforts.
An American in Paris, 1h53
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch, Madge Blake
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.548993.548993.548993.548993.54899
American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is now an exuberant expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend and neighbor, Adam Cook (Oscar Levant), is a struggling concert pianist who is a longtime associate of a French singer, Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). At the ground-floor bar, Henri tells Adam about his cultured girlfriend. Jerry joins them later, before going out to sell his art.
The Painted Hills, 1h30
Directed by Harold F. Kress
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Films about dogs, Musical films
Actors Paul Kelly, Pal, Bruce Cowling, Ann Doran, Gary Gray, Art Smith
Roles Director of Photography
Rating42% 2.111562.111562.111562.111562.11156
A prospector named Jonathan Harvey (Paul Kelly), whose faithful companion is a rough collie named Shep, looks after the family of his late partner, Martha Blake (Ann Doran) and her son Tommy (Gary Gray). After years of digging in the hills of California (where the movie was shot), he finally strikes gold. However, before he can share it with the Blakes, his greedy partner Lin Taylor (Bruce Cowling) kills Jonathan and attempts to lay claim on the gold. He poisons Shep, who nearly dies, and nearly kills Tommy, but ultimately Shep recovers and leads Lin into the mountains, where he falls off a cliff to his death.
Two Weeks with Love, 1h32
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jane Powell, Ricardo Montalbán, Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Debbie Reynolds, Phyllis Kirk
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.3930753.3930753.3930753.3930753.393075
Au début des années 1900, dans la famille Robinson, Patti et Melba, les filles, sont des artistes accomplies du spectacle, tandis que les garçons espiègles préfèrent l'agitation. Mme Robinson-mère est bienveillante et surveille les amours des jeunes. La famille Robinson doit quitter son domicile à New York pour s'installer au "Kissimee Catskills," un hôtel de villégiature dans l'État de New York, où l'amour frappe les deux filles Robinson...
Vendetta
Vendetta (1950)
, 1h23
Directed by Max Ophüls, Howard Hughes, Jr., Mel Ferrer, Preston Sturges, Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Faith Domergue, George Dolenz, Donald Buka, Joseph Calleia, Robert Warwick, Hugo Haas
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.002143.002143.002143.002143.00214
In 1825, in the village of Pietranera in French-controlled Corsica, hot-blooded maiden Colomba della Rabia (Faith Domergue) wants her brother Orso (George Dolenz) to avenge the murder of their father by the powerful Barracini family. Despite being a lieutenant, Orso is a man of peace and reason who opposes the Corsican practice of vendetta and revenge; he is more interested in courting the beautiful English aristocrat, Lydia Nevil (Hillary Brooke), who is vacationing on the island with her father, Col. Sir Thomas Nevil (Nigel Bruce).
Dancing Co-Ed, 1h24
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Ann Rutherford, Lee Bowman, Thurston Hall, Leon Errol
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1958653.1958653.1958653.1958653.195865
When a dancer's partner becomes pregnant, a nationwide search is instituted to find a replacement from among college women. A perfect choice is found, but she is not in school, resulting in various hijinks.
The Secret of Dr. Kildare, 1h24
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, Nat Pendleton, Laraine Day, Sara Haden
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.189443.189443.189443.189443.18944
Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) is seeking a permanent cure for pneumonia with a Sulfa drug, Sulfapyridine, and must ask Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) for assistance when his cancer tires him out and eventually collapses him. Dr. Gillespie recovers, while Dr. Kildare continues working on the pneumonia cure and the case of a woman, Nancy Messenger (Helen Gilbert) suffering from psychosomatic blindness.
These Glamour Girls, 1h19
Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson, Jane Bryan, Anita Louise
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.1441153.1441153.1441153.1441153.144115
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead she stays and shows up both him and his classmates snooty dates.
Calling Dr. Kildare, 1h26
Directed by Harold S. Bucquet
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Nat Pendleton, Lana Turner, Samuel S. Hinds
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.146563.146563.146563.146563.14656
Thunder in the City, 1h27
Directed by Marion Gering
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Luli Deste, Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier, Ralph Richardson, Arthur Wontner
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.048133.048133.048133.048133.04813
An American salesman with radically successful methods visits England ostensibly to learn a more dignified manner of salesmanship. He is mistaken for a millionaire by a cash-poor family of noble ancestry with a stately home to sell which he can't afford to buy. But by working with them instead he finds romance and equal success in business with his old marketing techniques.
The Milky Way, 1h29
Directed by Leo McCarey, Norman Z. McLeod
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Charles Lane, Verree Teasdale, Anthony Quinn, Helen Mack
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.247363.247363.247363.247363.24736
Timid milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) becomes involved in a brawl which ends up with Speed McFarland, the world middleweight champion being knocked out cold (he never in fact threw a punch; he merely ducked to get out of the way of a punch which brought the champ down).
The Sky Parade, 1h10
Directed by Otto Lovering
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors William Gargan, Katherine DeMille, Kent Taylor, Grant Withers, Syd Saylor, Robert Fiske
Roles Director of Photography
Rating24% 1.2113851.2113851.2113851.2113851.211385