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Edward Cronjager is a Director of Photography, Editor and Cinematography American born on 21 march 1904 at New York City (USA)
Edward Cronjager (parfois crédité Edward J. Cronjager), né le 21 mars 1904 à New York (État de New York), mort le 15 juin 1960 à Los Angeles — Quartier d'Hollywood (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain, membre de l'ASC.
Il assiste notamment les réalisateurs John Cromwell (ex. : Ann Vickers en 1933, avec Irene Dunne et Walter Huston), H. Bruce Humberstone (ex. : Les Rivages de Tripoli en 1942, avec John Payne et Maureen O'Hara), Fritz Lang (ex. : House by the River en 1950, avec Louis Hayward et Jane Wyatt), Ernst Lubitsch (Le ciel peut attendre en 1943, avec Gene Tierney et Don Ameche), Wesley Ruggles (ex. : La Ruée vers l'Ouest en 1931, avec Richard Dix et Irene Dunne), ou encore William A. Seiter (ex. : Roberta en 1935, avec Fred Astaire et Ginger Rogers), entre autres.
À la télévision, Edward Cronjager est directeur de la photographie sur huit séries, de 1958 à 1960.
Au cours de sa carrière, il obtient sept nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie (la première en 1931, pour La Ruée vers l'Ouest qui obtient l'Oscar du meilleur film), mais n'en gagne pas.
Il est le fils d'Henry Cronjager (1877-1967), le neveu de Jules Cronjager (1871-1934) et le frère d'Henry Cronjager Jr. (1906-1991), tous trois également directeurs de la photographie.
(1931)
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Nationality USA
Birth 21 march 1904 at New York City (USA)
Death 15 june 1960 (at 56 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Birth 21 march 1904 at New York City (USA)
Death 15 june 1960 (at 56 years) at Hollywood (USA)
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Au cinéma, Edward Cronjager est chef opérateur sur cent-vingt films américains (dont une vingtaine muets), à partir de 1925, y compris des westerns. Son dernier film sort en septembre 1961, plus d'un an après sa mort brutale, d'une crise cardiaque.Il assiste notamment les réalisateurs John Cromwell (ex. : Ann Vickers en 1933, avec Irene Dunne et Walter Huston), H. Bruce Humberstone (ex. : Les Rivages de Tripoli en 1942, avec John Payne et Maureen O'Hara), Fritz Lang (ex. : House by the River en 1950, avec Louis Hayward et Jane Wyatt), Ernst Lubitsch (Le ciel peut attendre en 1943, avec Gene Tierney et Don Ameche), Wesley Ruggles (ex. : La Ruée vers l'Ouest en 1931, avec Richard Dix et Irene Dunne), ou encore William A. Seiter (ex. : Roberta en 1935, avec Fred Astaire et Ginger Rogers), entre autres.
À la télévision, Edward Cronjager est directeur de la photographie sur huit séries, de 1958 à 1960.
Au cours de sa carrière, il obtient sept nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie (la première en 1931, pour La Ruée vers l'Ouest qui obtient l'Oscar du meilleur film), mais n'en gagne pas.
Il est le fils d'Henry Cronjager (1877-1967), le neveu de Jules Cronjager (1871-1934) et le frère d'Henry Cronjager Jr. (1906-1991), tous trois également directeurs de la photographie.
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Devil's Partner (1961)
, 1h13Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Edgar Buchanan, Richard Crane, Byron Foulger, Claire Carleton, Harry Fleer, Ed Nelson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52%
The story opens with a hunched old man, Pete Jensen, who lives in a shack in the town of Furnace Flats. He slaughters a goat and daubs its blood within a pentagon drawn on the floor of his shack.
The Girl in Lovers Lane (1960)
, 1h18Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Brett Halsey, Joyce Meadows, Jack Elam, Emile Meyer, Del Monroe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating31%
The Siege at Red River (1954)
, 1h26Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Western
Actors Van Johnson, Joanne Dru, Richard Boone, Milburn Stone, Jeff Morrow, Robert Burton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
Alors que la guerre de sécession fait rage aux États-Unis, Jim Farraday, un officier sudiste et son coéquipier Benjy ont infiltré les lignes ennemies et attaquent un convoi nordiste qui transporte des caisses d'armes dont un rare modèle d'une mitrailleuse Gatling.
Powder River (1953)
Directed by Louis King
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, Cameron Mitchell, Mae Marsh, Carl Betz, John Dehner
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Chino Bullock, un ancien marshal, décide de prendre sa retraite pour chercher de l'or avec son ami Jack Slater. Mais quand ce dernier se fait tuer, Chino reprend du service...
, 1h30Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Cornel Wilde, Constance Smith, Finlay Currie, Walter Hampden, Anne Bancroft, George Macready
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Jean-Paul (Cornel Wilde), is a Frenchman, who is cheated of his birthright by his deceitful uncle Marquis de St. Malo (George Macready).
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
, 1h42Directed by Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Romeo and Juliet, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Children's films
Actors Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, Terry Moore, J. Carrol Naish, Richard Boone
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Mike and Tony Petrakis are Greek American father and son sponge diving entrepreneurs who find themselves in competition with the Rhys family, WASP fishermen who are prepared to resort to violence and even murder to maintain their established fishing grounds off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Run-ins between the two clans lead to an exchange of threats and all-out brawls. Further complications ensue when Tony Petrakis meets Gwyneth Rhys, and the two fall in love.
Powder River (1953)
Directed by Louis King
Genres Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Rory Calhoun, Corinne Calvet, Cameron Mitchell, Carl Betz, John Dehner, Raymond Greenleaf
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Deux amis, Chino Bullock un ancien policier à la retraite et Jack Slater, ont découvert et exploitent un filon d’or grâce auquel ils s’enrichissent. Mais leur fortune attire les truands. Jack est abattu d’une balle dans le dos. Chico accepte de reprendre du service, il est nommé shérif pour rétablir l’ordre dans la ville, mais va aussi assouvir une vengeance personnelle…
Lure of the Wilderness (1952)
, 1h33Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Jean Peters, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Smith, Walter Brennan, Tom Tully, Harry Shannon
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
The film is set in the 1910s in Fargo, Georgia, near a dangerous swamp. Ben Tyler and his father Zack one day go into the swamp to search for two lost trappers. During an unsuccessful journey, Ben's dog Careless disappears while running after a deer. While looking for Careless, Ben is hit in the head by someone, and when he awakens, he finds himself captured by two primitive people, the old Jim Harper and his fierce, aggressive daughter Laurie.
Best of the Badmen (1951)
, 1h24Directed by William D. Russell
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Actors Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Walter Brennan, Robert Preston, Bruce Cabot
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Jeff Clanton, an Army major from Missouri, captures the survivors of the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders to give themselves up and pledge their allegiance to the Union. Clanton pledges that they will be paroled, but Matthew Fowler, a carpetbagger who owns a powerful detective agency, is determined to arrest them for the reward. When one of Fowler's deputies wounds one of the captives, return fire kills the deputy. Clanton is unjustly arrested for murdering Fowler's deputy. Clanton is tried by a kangaroo court and sentenced to be hanged the following morning. He escapes that night and then leads the band of outlaws including Jesse James and the Younger brothers in a vendetta against detective Matthew Fowler's detective agency.
, 1h27Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Susan Hayward, William Lundigan, Rory Calhoun, Barbara Bates, Gene Lockhart, Alexander Knox
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
William Thompson (William Lundigan) is a minister from the deep South who has recently married Mary Elizabeth (Susan Hayward), a woman from the city. William is assigned a new parish and moves with Mary Elizabeth to a small town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
Best of the Badmen (1951)
, 1h24Directed by William D. Russell
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Robert Ryan, Claire Trevor, Jack Buetel, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, Bruce Cabot
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
À la fin de la guerre de Sécession, Jeff Clinton sauve la vie aux membres de la bande des frères James et Younger, traqués par Matthew Fowler. Pour se venger, Fowler accuse Clinton d’un meurtre et le fait condamner à mort. Clinton s’évade de prison avec l’aide de Lily Fowler, la femme de Fowler, qui déteste son mari. Traqué, Clinton trouve refuge auprès des hors-la–loi qui lui doivent la vie sauve. L’un des bandits, Bob Younger, tombe amoureux de Lily…
House by the River (1950)
, 1h24Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Kathleen Freeman, Ann Shoemaker
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
A rich novelist, Stephen Byrne, who lives and works by a river, kills his attractive maid after she begins screaming following a drunken pass. The writer, with the help of his limping brother, loads the body into an old sack and the pair throws the body into the river. Unfortunately, the body comes back up and floats by the house days later. Despite desperate attempts by the brothers to get the body, the police end up recovering it.
The Capture (1950)
, 1h31Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright, Victor Jory, Jacqueline White, Jimmy Hunt, Barry Kelley
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
Lin Vanner (Lew Ayres), is manager of an oil company. The payroll has been stolen in a hold-up. His fiance urges him to pursue the suspect in hope that he will gain recognition. Deducing the road the robber may have taken over the border with Mexico, he goes along to intercept him. He shoots a man who shouts back at him and does not raise his hands when challenged by Lin.
On Our Merry Way (1948)
, 1h47Directed by John Huston, George Stevens, King Vidor, Leslie Fenton
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Lamour
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Oliver Pease, qui a menti à sa femme sur ce qu'il fait exactement au journal pour lequel il travaille, se voit obligé d'enquêter auprès du public sur "Quelle influence a eu un petit enfant sur votre vie ?". Il va recueillir ainsi différentes histoires...
The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948)
, 1h17Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Olga San Juan, Dorothy Hart, Arthur Treacher, John James, Arthur O'Connell, Gino Corrado
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
Right before closing time Karen Kirsten and Jenny Johnsen, who work as waitresses at an Oslo night club, get an offer from the National Studios assistant director Jensen. He promises to make them both famous, and wants to give them screen test auditions. They accept the offer, and the very next day the girls show up at the film studio to try out for roles in the company's new production "Countess of Monte Cristo". There are two roles available: the countess herself and her maid.