Charles F. Wheeler is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 15 december 1915 at Memphis (USA)
Charles F. Wheeler
Charles F. Wheeler participated to
32 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
7 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Cameraman
, 2h34
Directed by Stanley Kramer,
Carey LoftinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeThemes Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Road movies,
Heist films,
Chase films,
Gangster films,
EscroquerieActors Spencer Tracy,
Milton Berle,
Sid Caesar,
Buddy Hackett,
Dorothy Provine,
Moe HowardRoles Camera Operator
Rating74%
"Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and on the run from the police, careens his 1957 Ford Victoria off twisting, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him - Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist, Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover, Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas, and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), who owns Pacific Edible Seaweed Company in Fresno. Just before he dies, Grogan tells the five about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border under a mysterious "big W"., 2h24
Directed by Richard Fleischer,
Kinji Fukasaku,
Toshio MasudaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Seafaring films,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Political films,
United States Armed Forces in filmsActors Martin Balsam,
Joseph Cotten,
Sō Yamamura,
E. G. Marshall,
James Whitmore,
Jason RobardsRoles Director of Photography
Rating74%
In 1941, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Sō Yamamura) and his predecessor, Zengo Yoshida (Junya Usami), discuss America's embargo that starves Japan of raw materials. While both agree that a war with the United States would be a complete disaster, army hotheads and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and start planning for war. With the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto orders the planning of a preventive strike, believing Japan's only hope is to annihilate the American Pacific fleet at the outset of hostilities., 3h9
Directed by George Roy Hill,
James Blue,
Richard TalmadgeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Adventure,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Seafaring films,
Transport filmsActors Julie Andrews,
Max von Sydow,
Gene Hackman,
Jocelyne LaGarde,
Richard Harris,
Carroll O'ConnorRoles Camera Operator
Rating64%
The story follows Prince Keoki Kanakoa, the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha, who join the prince on mission to the Islands of Hawaii for the Calvinist church with the promise to make Kanakoa a minister. Upon their arrival to the islands, the ship stops in Lahaina, Maui before going on to Honolulu, Oahu where the main church has been established. There they are greeted by the aliʻi nui, Malama Kanakoa, Keoki's mother, who stops the Hales from traveling further when she demands Jerusha remain in Lahaina to teach her to write. Reverend Hale attempts to teach her of the Christian God first but she refuses until she, herself can write. Only after that will she listen to Abner's Christian teachings. As Hale learns, there is a serious difference between a destiny calling to him and the call to recognize the needs of others., 3h6
Directed by Stanley KramerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
HistoricalThemes Films about religion,
Political films,
Films about capital punishment,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Spencer Tracy,
Burt Lancaster,
Richard Widmark,
Marlene Dietrich,
Judy Garland,
Maximilian SchellRoles Camera Operator
Rating82%
Judgment at Nuremberg centers on a military tribunal convened in Nuremberg, Germany, in which four German judges and prosecutors stand accused of crimes against humanity for their involvement in atrocities committed under the Nazi regime. Judge Dan Haywood (Spencer Tracy) is the Chief Trial Judge of a three-judge panel that will hear and decide the case against the defendants. Haywood begins his examination by trying to learn how the defendant Ernst Janning (Burt Lancaster) could have sentenced so many people to death. Janning, it is revealed, is a well-educated and internationally respected jurist and legal scholar. Haywood seeks to understand how the German people could have turned blind eyes and deaf ears to the crimes of the Nazi regime. In doing so, he befriends the widow (Marlene Dietrich) of a German general who had been executed by the Allies. He talks with a number of Germans who have different perspectives on the war. Other characters the judge meets are U.S. Army Captain Byers (William Shatner), who is assigned to the American party hearing the cases, and Irene Hoffman (Judy Garland), who is afraid to bring testimony that may bolster the prosecution's case against the judges., 1h44
Directed by Norman Tokar,
Arthur J. VitarelliOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Comedy,
Comic science fictionThemes Films about animals,
Comedy science fiction films,
Films about cats,
Children's films,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Mise en scène d'un mammifèreActors Ronnie Schell,
Ken Berry,
Sandy Duncan,
Harry Morgan,
Roddy McDowall,
McLean StevensonRoles Director of Photography
Rating59%
An unidentified flying object makes an emergency landing on Earth and is taken into custody by the United States government. The occupant of the "flying saucer" turns out to be a strange cat-like alien named Zunar-J-5/9 Doric-4-7. Since the Mother Ship cannot send a rescue party before it leaves the solar system, the cat sets about investigating how to repair the ship himself. Using a special collar that amplifies telekinetic and telepathic abilities, he follows the military to the Energy Research Laboratory (or E.R.L.), where they hope to learn how the UFO's power source works. One of the lab's scientists, Dr. Frank Wilson, attracts the cat's attention when his theory on the power source, while ridiculed by the rest of the staff, is actually on the right track., 1h30
Directed by Charles Jarrott,
Denys Granier-DeferreOrigin United-kingdomGenres Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
SpyThemes La bande dessinée,
Spy films,
Superhero films,
Political films,
Children's filmsActors Michael Crawford,
Oliver Reed,
Barbara Carrera,
James Hampton,
Dana Elcar,
Vernon DobtcheffRoles Director of Photography
Rating56%
Woodrow "Woody" Wilkins is an imaginative, yet eccentric, comic book writer and illustrator who demands a sense of realism for his comic book hero "Condorman", to the point where he crafts a Condorman flying suit of his own and launches himself off the Eiffel Tower. The test flight fails as his right wing breaks, sending him crashing into the Seine River. Later after the incident, Woody is asked by his friend, CIA file clerk Harry, to perform what appears to be a civilian paper swap in Istanbul. Upon arriving in Istanbul, he meets a beautiful Soviet named Natalia Rambova, who poses as the Soviet civilian with whom the exchange is supposed to take place, but it is later revealed that she is in fact a KGB spy. Woody does not tell Natalia his real name, and instead fabricates his identity to her as a top American agent code-named "Condorman". During the encounter, Woody fends off a group of would-be assassins and saves her life by sheer luck before accomplishing the paper trade. Impressed by Woody, and disgusted by how she was treated by her lover/boss Krokov when she returns to Moscow, Natalia decides to defect and asks the CIA to have "Condorman" be the agent that helps her., 1h39
Directed by Daniel HallerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about religionActors Robert Forster,
Lauren Hutton,
Ivor Francis,
Will Geer,
Richard O'Brien,
Edith AtwaterRoles Director of Photography
Rating51%
Father Gregory Lind (Robert Forster), is a Catholic priest struggling with his life in the priesthood. He wishes to change parishes, but is denied the transfer time after time. The story starts with him arriving at the local hospital after being informed that one of his charges is dying after trying to steal a car. He meets there Pamela Gibson (Lauren Hutton) – a widowed and rich social worker from the local Community Center. Together they decide to find out more about the deceased teen. The pair checks up on Estella Rios (Kathy Baca), the boy's pregnant, underage girlfriend. They don't agree on what should be done about her and later Father Lind finds out from Mrs. Rios (Miriam Martinez) that Pamela took Estalla to probably get an abortion. This leads to more arguments between the two, but they lose importance when the girl ends up in a hospital and miscarries. The social worker breaks down and Father Lind ends up having sex with her, after taking her back home.