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Karl Struss is a Director of Photography, Editor, Cinematography and Lighting Director American born on 30 november 1886 at New York City (USA)
Karl Struss, A.S.C. (November 30, 1886 — December 15, 1981) was a photographer and a cinematographer of the 1900s through the 1950s. He was also one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films. While he mostly worked on films, such as F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Limelight, he was also one of the cinematographers for the television series Broken Arrow and photographed 19 episodes of My Friend Flicka.
He was born in New York, New York and attended Columbia University, graduating with a B.A. in 1912. He studied photography with Clarence H. White, a faculty member at Columbia. His first successes came selling photographs to magazines including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar. (However, he was quick to insist that he was not doing fashion photography.)
In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles and signed on with Cecil B. DeMille as a cameraman and subsequently worked on many films. He was later also admitted to the American Society of Cinematographers.
In 1949, he began his work in "stereo cinematography", becoming one of the first proponents of that art form. Unfortunately, he did most of his 3D work in Italy and none of his films were subsequently released in 3D in the United States.
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Nationality USA
Birth 30 november 1886 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 december 1981 (at 95 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Birth 30 november 1886 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 december 1981 (at 95 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography
He was born in New York, New York and attended Columbia University, graduating with a B.A. in 1912. He studied photography with Clarence H. White, a faculty member at Columbia. His first successes came selling photographs to magazines including Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Harper's Bazaar. (However, he was quick to insist that he was not doing fashion photography.)
In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles and signed on with Cecil B. DeMille as a cameraman and subsequently worked on many films. He was later also admitted to the American Society of Cinematographers.
In 1949, he began his work in "stereo cinematography", becoming one of the first proponents of that art form. Unfortunately, he did most of his 3D work in Italy and none of his films were subsequently released in 3D in the United States.
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The Alligator People (1959)
, 1h14Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Beverly Garland, Bruce Bennett, George Macready, Lon Chaney, Jr., Frieda Inescort, Richard Crane
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56%
After she is administered the drug pentothal by psychiatrists Dr. Erik Lorimer (Bruce Bennett) and Dr. Wayne McGregor (Douglas Kennedy), nurse Jane Marvin recalls a series events from her forgotten past when she was known as Joyce Webster (Beverly Garland).
Counterplot (1959)
, 1h16Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Forrest Tucker, Allison Hayes, Miguel Ángel Álvarez, Raúl Dávila
Roles Director of Photography
Rating49%
This script must be run from the command line
The Fly (1958)
, 1h34Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Cyberpunk films, Children's films
Actors David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
In Montreal, Quebec, scientist Andre Delambre (David Hedison) is found dead with his head and arm crushed in a hydraulic press. Although his wife Helene (Patricia Owens) confesses to the crime, she refuses to provide a motive and exhibits a number of strange behaviors. In particular, she is obsessed with flies, including a supposedly white-headed fly. Andre's brother, Francois (Vincent Price), lies and says he caught the white-headed fly; and, thinking he knows the truth, Helene explains the circumstances surrounding Andre's death.
Machete (1958)
, 1h15Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mari Blanchard, Albert Dekker, Juano Hernández, Lee Van Cleef, Carlos Rivas
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54%
Sugar plantation owner Don Luis Montoya gets married in New York and brings his bride Jean back to Puerto Rico, unaware that she wed him only for his money. Friends at their San Juan honeymoon hotel recognize her as a notorious party girl, so Jean urges her husband to take her home right away, before the marriage has even been consummated.
Kronos (1957)
, 1h18Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Giant monster films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery, George O'Hanlon, Morris Ankrum, Richard Harrison
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
A huge, blinking flying saucer that's approaching the Earth emits a glowing object. This object races ahead of it to intercept a man who's driving down a lonely road. It takes over the man's body and directs him to Central Labs, a U.S. research facility that's been tracking the saucer (supposing it to be an asteroid).
She Devil (1957)
, 1h17Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Mari Blanchard, Jack Kelly, Albert Dekker, John Archer, Fay Baker, Blossom Rock
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Dr. Dan Scott has developed a serum that cures the ills of animals, although it did alter the color of a leopard used in one experiment. Eager to try it on a human being, despite his mentor Dr. Richard Bach's many concerns, Scott finds a consenting patient in Kyra Zelas, a woman with a meek personality who is dying of tuberculosis.
The Deerslayer (1957)
, 1h18Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres War, Adventure, Western
Actors Lex Barker, Rita Moreno, Forrest Tucker, Cathy O'Donnell, Jay C. Flippen, Carlos Rivas
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54%
Au début de la colonie américaine, le vieux trappeur Tom Hutter vit avec ses deux filles dans un fort isolé flottant au milieu d'un lac. Tom qui mène sa vendetta contre les Indiens a provoqué la colère des Hurons : en effet, il fait son commerce non avec des fourrures mais des scalps ! Alors qu'il est attaqué par les Indiens, arrivent Deerslayer, un chasseur de daims, et son frère de sang Mohican, Chingachgook, qui lui viennent en aide....ils vont finir par apprendre le terrible secret ...
Mohawk (1956)
, 1h20Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Scott Brady, Rita Gam, Lori Nelson, John Hoyt, Allison Hayes, Rhys Williams
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52%
In 18th–century upstate New York, a quarrelsome white man named Butler seeks to foment war with the Indians, to rid the Mohawk Valley of the natives and settlers he despises. He goes to the Iroquois tribe chef Kowanen to warn him about a party of armed white settlers. Kowanen shows no concern, but his son Keoga and brave Rokhawah feel otherwise and plot a raid to steal the settlers' muskets. They are assisted by Keoga's sister Onida, but many Indians end up killed and Onida captured.
Attila (1954)
, 1h58Directed by Pietro Francisci
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Irène Papas, Henri Vidal, Ettore Manni, Claude Laydu
Roles Camera Operator
Rating54%
The story is set in 450 A.D. The Huns, a horde of barbarians from the distant plains of Asia, move toward the rich western lands of Germania, led by a savage chief, Attila.
Two Nights with Cleopatra (1954)
, 1h18Directed by Mario Mattoli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Sophia Loren, Alberto Sordi, Ettore Manni, Paul Müller, Alberto Talegalli, Ugo D'Alessio
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48%
Cesare, a Roman soldier, comes to Alexandria to serve in the army staff of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Cleopatra is a beautiful woman, able to charm anyone, and is the wife of Emperor Mark Antony, but when he is not in the city, she prefers to spend the night with one or another of his soldiers, whom she will then have killed the next day with poison.
Poverty and Nobility (1954)
, 1h35Directed by Mario Mattoli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Totò, Dolores Palumbo, Enzo Turco, Sophia Loren, Carlo Croccolo, Giuseppe Porelli
Roles Director of Photography
Rating76%
The story is taken from the Eduardo Scarpetta's play: Naples, 1800. The poor Felice Sciosciamocca tries to work being a scribe for ignorant people, while his friend Don Pasquale tries to make photographs for rich couples. Meanwhile in the house where the two live, their wives start to fight because the apartment is mortgaged, and the women don't have money to pay the rent. Luckily rich Count Luigino, in love with the beautiful dancer Gemma, asks Pasquale and Felice to stage a farce for him. In fact the parents of Gemma want to meet Luigino's family, but he knows that his real father does not approve his love affair with the dancer. So Luigino transforms Don Felice Sciosciamocca into his uncle: Prince of Casadores, and Don Pasquale has to play the true father of Luigino. The young count entrusts a false part to play to all members of the two families, except the second wife of Felice: Concetta. Unfortunately Count Luigino cannot find a role for her, and Concetta gets very angry. While Felice Sciosciammocca and Pasquale're argue in the beautiful villa of Don Gaetano, Gemma's father, Concetta bursts in the home, and tries to compromise the plan organized by Luigino. Fortunately Don Felice manages to fix the situation and in the end, all is happily resolved.
Funniest Show on Earth (1953)
, 1h10Directed by Mario Mattoli
Genres Comedy
Themes Circus films
Actors May Britt, Totò, Mario Castellani, Peppino De Filippo, Gianni Agus, Alberto Sorrentino
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
In the circus a clown named Tottons Togni (Totò), obliged not to make-up off never to not reveal his identity, is constantly haunted by jealousy of three women (a lion tamer, a fantasist, a trapeze artist) and also by the investigation of a police officer.
Neapolitan Turk (1953)
, 1h26Directed by Mario Mattoli
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Totò, Carlo Campanini, Aldo Giuffrè, Ignazio Balsamo, Isa Barzizza, Vinicio Sofia
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
The film is based on a play by the famous Neapolitan writer Eduardo Scarpetta, father of Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo. The story is set in Naples and Sorrento in the second half of 1800. The thief Felice Sciosciammocca (the surname in Naples means "one who is always with her mouth open in astonishment"; Felice means "Happy") together with the bandit Faina ("Weasel") escapes from prison and meets with a eunuch Turkish that he should go to Sorrento for a service. Don Felice kidnaps him and steals his letter of recommendation to get into the house of the rich man who had been sent the Turkish, so that gains a bit 'of money for him and for his accomplice. The man who had called the Turkish is the rich grocer Don Pasquale, being jealous of his wife and young daughter, betrothed to Don Carluccio holding a dowry, is to host the Don Felice robes Turkish and immediately test some suspicion. In fact, the Turkish rather than look like a eunuch protector proves to be a great womanizer and causes the sympathy of all the girls in the country and the wrath of the young. Don Felice, forgetting appears Faina, have fun in monitoring the wife and daughter of Pasquale and Don Carluccio appears more and more restless by the net waste of his betrothed. In the days to follow Don Felice will be met with the Honourable Cocchetelli who had recommended the real Turkish to Don Pasquale, but can not reveal the truth because Don Felice surprised him with a girl who was not his wife. Is coming the day of the wedding and don Carluccio after an engagement party gone wrong, stormed into the house of Don Pasquale to beat him, but Don Felice intervenes and gives the marching orders to the bully who runs away scared. All thanks Don Felice, who reveals his identity and claims to have done all this misunderstanding consists of funny situations to entertain the audience watching him from a theater.
Limelight (1952)
, 2h17Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Wheeler Dryden
Roles Director of Photography
Rating79%
The movie is set in London in 1914, on the eve of World War I (and the year Chaplin made his first film). Calvero (Chaplin), once a famous stage clown but now a washed-up drunk, saves a young dancer, Thereza "Terry" Ambrose, (Claire Bloom), from suicide. Nursing her back to health, Calvero helps Terry regain her self-esteem and resume her dancing career. In doing so he regains his own self-confidence, but his attempts to make a comeback meet with failure. Terry says she wants to marry Calvero despite their age difference, although she has befriended Neville (Sydney Earl Chaplin), a young composer Calvero believes would be better suited to her. In order to give them a chance, Calvero leaves home and becomes a street entertainer. Terry, now starring in her own show, eventually finds Calvero and persuades him to return to the stage for a benefit concert. Reunited with an old partner (Keaton), Calvero gives a triumphant comeback performance. He suffers a heart attack during a routine, however, and dies in the wings while watching Terry, the second act on the bill, dance on stage.
Rose of Cimarron (1952)
, 1h12Directed by Harry Keller
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Mala Powers, Jack Buetel, Bill Williams, Jim Davis, Dick Curtis, William Phipps
Roles Director of Photography
Rating51%
When a covered wagon heading for California is attacked by Comanche, the only survivor is a baby girl. A young Cherokee brave finds her and brings her to his parents where she is raised as a Cherokee but with intimate knowledge of the language and customs of white Americans. She is named Rose of Cimarron after a mountain lion.