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George Webber is a Director of Photography and Cinematography Canadien born on 10 may 1876
George Webber est un directeur de la photographie américain d'origine canadienne, né le 10 mai 1876 à Kingston (Ontario), mort le 29 août 1967 à New York (État de New York).
Parmi sa cinquantaine de longs métrages (essentiellement pendant la période du muet), mentionnons The Slim Princess de Victor Schertzinger (1920, avec Mabel Normand et Tully Marshall), Larmes de reine d'Allan Dwan (1924, avec Gloria Swanson et Ian Keith), ainsi que Mondaine de Richard Rosson et Lewis Milestone (1926, avec Gloria Swanson et Ivan Lebedeff).
Au nombre de ses courts métrages, citons Dime a Dance d'Al Christie (1937, avec Imogene Coca et Danny Kaye).
Après son retrait du grand écran, il revient brièvement à la télévision, comme directeur de la photographie sur deux séries, de 1952 à 1957.
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Installé aux États-Unis où il obtient la citoyenneté américaine, George Webber est chef opérateur sur plus de deux-cents films américains entre 1914 et 1949, dont près de cent-cinquante courts métrages (ces derniers principalement durant les années 1930).Parmi sa cinquantaine de longs métrages (essentiellement pendant la période du muet), mentionnons The Slim Princess de Victor Schertzinger (1920, avec Mabel Normand et Tully Marshall), Larmes de reine d'Allan Dwan (1924, avec Gloria Swanson et Ian Keith), ainsi que Mondaine de Richard Rosson et Lewis Milestone (1926, avec Gloria Swanson et Ivan Lebedeff).
Au nombre de ses courts métrages, citons Dime a Dance d'Al Christie (1937, avec Imogene Coca et Danny Kaye).
Après son retrait du grand écran, il revient brièvement à la télévision, comme directeur de la photographie sur deux séries, de 1952 à 1957.
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Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941)
, 1h5Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mamie Smith
Roles Director of Photography
Rating49%
In 1941 Harlem,New York City Apartments Some one gets framed for a murder.
Midnight (1934)
, 1h16Directed by Chester Erskine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sidney Fox, Henry Hull, O. P. Heggie, Margaret Wycherly, Humphrey Bogart, Lynne Overman
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
Une femme accusée de crime passionnel risque d'être envoyée sur la chaise électrique par un jury populaire, mené par l'intransigeant Edward Weldon. Il se retrouve face à un dilemme quand sa propre fille est elle-aussi accusée d'un crime.
Smart Work (1931)
Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Addie McPhail
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Queen High (1930)
, 1h25Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Charles Ruggles, Frank Morgan, Ginger Rogers, Betty Garde, Nina Olivette, Tom Brown
Roles Camera Operator
Rating60%
Syncopation (1929)
, 1h23Directed by Bert Glennon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Barbara Bennett, Ian Hunter, Osgood Perkins, Mackenzie Ward, Verree Teasdale, Dorothy Lee
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. The revue gets picked up and taken to New York City, to be on Broadway. However, it quickly folds, and the two are forced to look for other employment. They eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous.
East Side, West Side (1927)
, 1h30Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors George O'Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald, Holmes Herbert, June Collyer
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
Fine Manners (1926)
, 1h10Directed by Lewis Milestone, Richard Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Gloria Swanson, Eugene O'Brien, Helen Dunbar, Roland Drew, Jack La Rue, Ivan Lebedeff
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Burlesque chorus girl Orchid Murphy (Gloria Swanson) attracts the attention of wealthy Brian Alden (Eugene O'Brien), who is posing as a writer while "slumming" in the city. Finding her manner quite refreshing compared to the women he usually meets in his circle, he falls in love with her and confesses his wealth. After she agrees to marriage, he leaves for a six-month tour of South America, and Orchid takes a course in "fine manners" to better prepare herself for Brian's world. She becomes too polished, however, and when asked by Brian to marry him upon his return, is happy to become herself again.
Stage Struck (1925)
, 1h27Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor, Ford Sterling
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
Jennie Hagan (Swanson) is a waitress who dreams of becoming a star. When a real theatrical diva (Astor) arrives in town, Jennie schemes to get a part on the stage.
Night Life of New York (1925)
, 1h20Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Rod La Rocque, Ernest Torrence, Dorothy Gish, George Hackathorne, Arthur Housman, Texas Guinan
Roles Director of Photography
The Purple Highway (1923)
, 1h10Directed by Henry Kolker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Madge Kennedy, Monte Blue, Vincent Coleman, Pedro de Cordoba, Emily Fitzroy, Charles Kent
Roles Director of Photography
Head Over Heels (1922)
, 50minutesDirected by Victor Schertzinger, Paul Bern
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mabel Normand, Raymond Hatton, Adolphe Menjou, Russ Powell, Lilyan Tashman, Lionel Belmore
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
The Concert (1921)
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Lewis Stone, Myrtle Stedman, Raymond Hatton, Mabel Julienne Scott, Gertrude Astor, Russ Powell
Roles Director of Photography
Augustus Martinot, 43 ans, est un pianiste de renom fasciné par les femmes. Bien que marié, il fait la connaissance de Delphine Hart, l'épouse d'un médecin.
The Slim Princess (1920)
, 50minutesDirected by Victor Schertzinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Mabel Normand, Tully Marshall, Russ Powell, Harry Lorraine
Roles Director of Photography
The farcical plot revolves around a princess considered too slender for a fictional country, loosely based upon Turkey, in which obese women are prized. Princess Kalora finds herself reduced to shoving pillows into her garments to make her normal-sized frame presentable.
Lord and Lady Algy (1919)
, 1hDirected by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Tom Moore, Naomi Childers, Mabel Ballin, Frank Leigh, William Burress, Alec B. Francis
Roles Director of Photography
The Million Dollar Mystery (1914)
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Florence La Badie, Marguerite Snow, James Cruze, Frank Farrington, Sidney Bracey, Lila Chester
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
A prologue for The Million Dollar Mystery introduced the characters and groups. After the opening title card shows "hundreds of hands" grasping for the money and then a shot of the check for $10,000 the solver of the mystery is shown prior to the beginning of the first reel. Baby Florence is left at a boarding school with a note and half a bracelet instructing that her father will come to take her back upon her eighteenth birthday. Hargreaves, here played by Alfred Norton, is chased by the Black Hundred, but he receives a note and money before attempting to escape by balloon on the top of a building. The balloon is shot down and the first chapter ends.