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Allen G. Siegler is a Scriptwriter, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 26 june 1892

Allen G. Siegler

Allen G. Siegler
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Nationality USA
Birth 26 june 1892
Death 21 september 1960 (at 68 years)

Allen G. Siegler, né le 26 juin 1892 à Newark (New Jersey), mort le 21 septembre 1960 à Los Angeles (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain, membre de l'ASC.

Biography

Allen G. Siegler est chef opérateur de cent-quatre-vingt films américains, le premier sorti en 1914, dont près de soixante-dix films muets, des westerns et de nombreux courts métrages mettant en vedette Les Trois Stooges.

Mentionnons The Unpainted Woman de Tod Browning (1919, avec Thurston Hall et David Butler), The Plastic Age de Wesley Ruggles (1925, avec Clara Bow), Le Chant du loup de Victor Fleming (1929, avec Gary Cooper et Lupe Vélez), Prisons d'enfants d'Howard Higgin (1932, avec Bette Davis et Pat O'Brien), ou encore The Devil Commands d'Edward Dmytryk (1941, avec Boris Karloff).

Sa dernière contribution est pour le film de science-fiction Unknown World , réalisé par Terry O. Morse et avec Victor Kilian, sorti en 1951.

Usually with

Lois Weber
Lois Weber
(5 films)
Larry Fine
Larry Fine
(18 films)
Moe Howard
Moe Howard
(18 films)
Shemp Howard
Shemp Howard
(10 films)
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Filmography of Allen G. Siegler (69 films)

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Scriptwriter

The Unpainted Woman
Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary MacLaren, Thurston Hall, David Butler, Willard Louis, Laura La Varnie, Fritzi Ridgeway

As described in a film magazine, Gudrun Trygavson (MacLaren) is a beautiful Swedish girl living in the American wheat country where she is employed as a "hired girl" by Mrs. Hawes (Titus). Charley Holt (Butler), son from one of the best families in Mullinsdale, cares for Gudrun and asks her to a dance. When Mrs. Hawes informs Charley's mother and sister of this, at the dance the sister cuts in to separate Charley from Gudrun. Charley becomes determined to marry Gudrun, but after they are wed his snobbish relatives cut them off. Charley gets a menial job as a mill worker, and Gudrun and he try to make the best of things, but their life is miserable due to Charley's drinking. A child is born to them, but after five years of hard drinking, Charley is fatally injured in a saloon fight, circumstances which distress Gudrun. Gudrun takes up a small farm with a cabin on it, and works the wheat fields to support her and her child. A "bird of passage" named Martin O'Neill (Hall) comes to the farm, and Gudrun feeds him. In return, he assists in the work and helps bring in the harvest, and when the barn catches fire, saves Gudrun and her child. Martin is suspected of starting the fire, and narrowly survives an attempted lynching by the excited townspeople. It is then discovered that the fire was started by a jealous rival. Gudrun and Martin are later wed.

Cameraman

Merry Mavericks
Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Don C. Harvey, Marion Martin, Emil Sitka
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.530443.530443.530443.530443.53044
Set in the Old West, Peaceful Gulch is not so peaceful as Morgan (Don C. Harvey) and his roughnecks have run the sheriff out of town. In attempt to bring normalcy back to their little town, some of the sheriff's posse concoct a scheme to trick Morgan and his hombres into thinking that there are three famous marshalls headed into town to bring back law and order.
Unknown World, 1h14
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Political films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Otto Waldis, Jim Bannon, Victor Kilian, Marilyn Nash
Roles Director of Photography
Rating41% 2.0626652.0626652.0626652.0626652.062665
Dr. Jeremiah Morley (Victor Kilian) is concerned about an imminent nuclear war. He organizes an expedition of scientists and has them use an atomic-powered machine, capable of drilling through earth and stone, known as the Cyclotram, to find an underground environment where people could escape from nuclear obliteration. The expedition, consisting of Jim Bannon, Marilyn Nash, Otto Waldis, Tom Handley and Dick Cogan begins, after government funding has fallen through and they are bailed out at the last minute with private financing from a newspaper heir Bruce Kellogg, who insists on going with them as a lark. Romantic rivalry develops between Bannon and Kellogg for Nash, and two lives are lost to perils of the expedition, but in the end, the scientists accomplish their goal and find an enormous expanse with plentiful air, its own ocean and phosphorus light. However, the lab rabbits they have brought with them give birth to dead rabbits. Nash discovers through an autopsy that the underground world has rendered the rabbits, and hence any other life form sterile. Dr Morley is depressed by the news and when an underground volcano erupts he doesn't enter the cyclotram and perishes. The survivors enter the underground sea and find themselves rising up to the surface of the upper world in the ocean, fortunately near a tropical island.
Three Hams on Rye
Directed by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Emil Sitka, Christine McIntyre, Nanette Bordeaux
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5772853.5772853.5772853.5772853.577285
The Stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in the production of "The Bride Wore Spurs." They quickly get on the bad side of their producer, B. K. Doaks (Emil Sitka), who has had his last several plays panned by famous critic Nick Barker (Ned Glass) and wants to put on a good show with what he has. In order to prevent Barker from getting in to see the play, he commissions the boys to stop him from sneaking in, which they fail to do as a result of their confusing disguises (they end up attacking each other and B.K.).
Fiddlers Three
Directed by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Virginia Hunter, Philip Van Zandt
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69% 3.485163.485163.485163.485163.48516
The Stooges are fiddlers at the court of Old King Cole (Vernon Dent). They are forbidden by the king to marry their sweethearts until Princess Alicia (Virginia Hunter) weds Prince Gallant III of Rhododendron "when the flowers bloom in the Spring." Evil magician Murgatroyd (Philip Van Zandt) has his own plans to marry Alicia, and promptly abducts her. While the Stooges are trying to apply new horseshoes to their horses, they accidentally fall through the floor where they find the Princess bound and gagged. They ultimately and rescue her by luring the guards out one by one where they knock them out.
Heavenly Daze
Directed by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Sam McDaniel, Victor Travers
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74% 3.7277853.7277853.7277853.7277853.727785
Shemp has died and is in Heaven, talking with his Uncle Mortimer (Moe, dressed to resemble Moses). Mortimer is on the phone checking to see if Shemp will remain in Heaven or Hell, and it does not look good. Furthermore, it comes to light that cousins Moe and Larry have also not been on their best behavior. Seeing this as an opportunity for his deceased nephew, Uncle Mortimer gives Shemp the chance to reform Moe and Larry from their evil ways so he can gain entry to Heaven. The catch is that Shemp cannot be seen nor heard by anyone on Earth, much to his delight.
The Hot Scots
Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre, Herbert Evans, Theodore Lorch
Roles Director of Photography
Rating76% 3.8201753.8201753.8201753.8201753.820175
The Stooges try to get jobs with Scotland Yard after graduating from a correspondence detective school. They end up as "Yard Men" picking up trash and pruning the hedges. They inadvertently get their chance to crack a case. Dressed in kilts and talking in phony Scottish accents, the Stooges (as McMoe, McLarry, and McShemp) are given the task of guarding the prized possessions of The Earl of Glenheather Castle (Herbert Evans). The castle staff are actually ransacking the castle while the boys sleep there, though they eventually arrest the crooks.
Inner Sanctum, 1h2
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Noir, Crime
Actors Mary Beth Hughes, Charles Russell, Billy House, Fritz Leiber, Nana Bryant, Lee Patrick
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.992892.992892.992892.992892.99289
Inner Sanctum is a movie about a murderer who is on the run and hiding out in a small town. Unbeknownst to him, he is not only hiding in the same boarding house as the only witness to his crime, he is sharing the same room.
Mummy's Dummies
Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa, Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Ralph Dunn, Philip Van Zandt
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.582913.582913.582913.582913.58291
The Stooges are used chariot salesmen in Ancient Egypt. They make the mistake of swindling Rhadames, the captain of the royal guard (Ralph Dunn) and he has them promptly arrested.
Pardon My Clutch
Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Matt McHugh, George Lloyd, Stanley Blystone
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.578053.578053.578053.578053.57805
Shemp has been ill with a toothache. The Stooges' friend Claude (Matt McHugh), a self-proclaimed Kevin Trudeau-ish doctor, gives Moe and Larry some specific instructions on how to cure the toothache, which, of course, they misinterpret every which way possible. After finally yanking the troublesome tooth, Claude suggests they take Shemp on a camping trip for a little R&R. Since the Stooges do not own a car, Claude offers to sell them a car that turns out to be a "lemon."
Shivering Sherlocks
Directed by Del Lord
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Vernon Dent, Christine McIntyre, Kenneth MacDonald
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.536223.536223.536223.536223.53622
The Stooges are mistaken for three armored car thieves. Captain Mullins (Vernon Dent) gives the boys a lie detector test, but finds no reason to hold them. The Stooges and Captain Mullins lie the lie detector test. He releases them, under protective custody, to Gladys Harmon (Christine McIntyre), owner of the Elite Café, who gives them an alibi. They try to return the favor by working at the Café, but have trouble with this.
Squareheads of the Round Table
Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre, Vernon Dent, Philip Van Zandt
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73% 3.677013.677013.677013.677013.67701
The Stooges are troubadours in medieval times. The villainous Black Prince has designs on marriage to Elaine, the princess. She however is in love with Cedric, the blacksmith. The Stooges try to intervene for Cedric by serenading Elaine; the music is the sextet from Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor". The lyrics serve as a secret conversation between Elaine and the foursome that she will leave her shade up when the "coast is clear" however, the group is spotted by the black Prince who calls for the guards. the group escapes but after the king is informed he orders the princess to stay in his room for the night (where she'll be better guarded) and he'll sleep in the princess' room. The stooges unaware of the switch send Shemp to bring the princess however, he mistakes the king for her. After they fail to escape the king orders them imprisoned and to be executed the next morning. Elaine secretly sends them a "loaded" loaf of bread and the stooges use the tools to escape. This leads to a chase with the guards. While hiding, Moe overhears the Black Prince plotting with a co-conspirator to murder the king. The Stooges save the day by disguising themselves as knights and revealing the plot to Elaine, They distract the guards by to Stephen Foster’s "Old Folks at Home", thus allowing Elaine to free Cedric. Finally, the king realizes the plot and jails the Black Prince and his fellow plotter. Elaine is allowed to marry Cedric, and they all live happily ever after.
All Gummed Up
Directed by Jules White
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, Cy Schindell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating75% 3.77663.77663.77663.77663.7766
The Stooges operate a local drugstore whose landlord, the cantankerous Amos Flint (Emil Sitka), informs them their lease is about to expire. Larry protests that the trio have had their establishment for a decade, and do not want to leave. As the four bicker, Flint's elderly wife Cerina (Christine McIntyre) enters the store, only to be berated by Flint for being an old hag. "25 years is enough," he coldly confirms. After he storms off, the boys take to the frail Cerina, who begins to weep that ever since she lost her beauty, Amos had threatened to leave. Both saddened and incensed, the Stooges offer Cerina their spare room in the back. Shemp, seeing this, hatches a plan to invent a "Fountain of Youth" to restore Cerina to her stunning beauty. Deeming the idea "tremendous, colossal and putrid," the Stooges flee to their pharmaceutical lab and mix together a powerful serum.
Millie's Daughter, 1h14
Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Gladys George, Ruth Donnelly, Norma Varden, Arthur Space, Nana Bryant, Stanley Andrews
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.395843.395843.395843.395843.39584
The Secret of the Whistler, 1h5
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Mona Barrie, Ray Walker, Claire Du Brey, John Hamilton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.0951053.0951053.0951053.0951053.095105
Ralph Harrison (Richard Dix) is married to Edith (Mary Currier), a rich woman who has been suffering heart attacks. Upset by her condition he finds consoling companionship with an artist’s model, the unscrupulous gold-digger, Kay (Leslie Brooks).