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King D. Gray is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 8 march 1886

King D. Gray

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Birth name King David Gray
Nationality USA
Birth 8 march 1886
Death 30 june 1938 (at 52 years)

King David Gray, né le 9 mars 1886 à Danville (Virginie) et mort le 30 juin 1938 à Los Angeles (quartier d'Hollywood, Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain, connu comme King D. Gray (parfois crédité King Gray ou King Grey).

Biography

King D. Gray est chef opérateur sur une cinquantaine de films américains (essentiellement durant la période du muet), le premier sorti en 1915, les deux derniers respectivement en 1931 et 1936 (un court métrage).

Il collabore notamment à plusieurs reprises avec les réalisateurs Joseph De Grasse (ex. : The Mark of Cain en 1916, avec Lon Chaney et Dorothy Phillips) et Ida May Park (ex. : Le Cœur de Mieke en 1917, avec Dorothy Phillips et William Stowell). Citons également le western Le Mari de l'Indienne de Cecil B. DeMille (1918, avec Elliott Dexter et Ann Little).

King D. Gray meurt prématurément à 52 ans, en 1938, victime d'un homicide non élucidé.

Usually with

Ida May Park
Ida May Park
(11 films)
Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney
(13 films)
Dorothy Phillips
Dorothy Phillips
(12 films)
Joseph De Grasse
Joseph De Grasse
(9 films)
William Stowell
William Stowell
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of King D. Gray (22 films)

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Cameraman

The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man (1933)
, 1h8
Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Invisibilité
Actors Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor, Forrester Harvey, Holmes Herbert
Roles Camera Operator
Rating75% 3.798653.798653.798653.798653.79865
On a snowy night, a mysterious stranger, his face swathed in bandages and his eyes obscured by dark goggles, takes a room at The Lion's Head Inn in the English village of Iping in Sussex. The man demands that he be left alone. Later, the innkeeper, Mr. Hall (Forrester Harvey) is sent by his wife (Una O'Connor) to evict the stranger after he makes a huge mess in his room while doing research and falls behind on his rent. Angered, the stranger throws Mr. Hall down the stairs. Confronted by a policeman and some local villagers, he removes his bandages and goggles, revealing that he is invisible. Laughing maniacally, he takes off his clothes, making himself completely undetectable, and drives off his tormenters before fleeing into the countryside.
Secret of the Blue Room
Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
, 1h6
Directed by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Lionel Atwill, Edward Arnold, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Onslow Stevens, William Janney
Roles Camera Operator
Rating63% 3.1923753.1923753.1923753.1923753.192375
A woman's suitor challenges his two rivals to each spend a night in a room in which several murders occurred years before at 1 a.m. The suitor, Tommy, sleeps there on the first night but disappears at 1 a.m. Then the second man sleeps there on the second night, at 12:30 a.m, he starts playing the piano, however, he is shot half an hour later.
The Mummy
The Mummy (1932)
, 1h13
Directed by Karl Freund
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Films based on mythology, Films about religion, Mythologie égyptienne
Actors Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, Noble Johnson, Leonard Mudie
Roles Camera Operator
Rating69% 3.4968253.4968253.4968253.4968253.496825
An ancient Egyptian priest called Imhotep (Boris Karloff) is revived when an archaeological expedition in 1921, led by Sir Joseph Whemple (Arthur Byron), finds Imhotep's mummy. Imhotep had been mummified alive for attempting to resurrect his forbidden lover, the princess Ankh-es-en-amon. Whemple's friend, Dr. Muller (Edward Van Sloan) inspects the mummy and exclaims "The viscera were not removed. The usual scar made by the embalmers knife is not there." Sir Joseph Wimple responds, "I guessed as much." Despite Muller's warning, Sir Joseph's assistant Ralph Norton (Bramwell Fletcher) reads aloud an ancient life-giving scroll – the Scroll of Thoth. Imhotep escapes from the archaeologists, taking the Scroll of Thoth, and prowls Cairo seeking the modern reincarnation of Ankh-es-en-amon.
Dracula
Dracula (1931)
, 1h15
Directed by Tod Browning, Karl Freund
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Dracula films, Vampires in film, Films based on plays
Actors Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Carla Laemmle
Roles First Assistant Camera
Rating73% 3.6973853.6973853.6973853.6973853.697385
Renfield is a solicitor traveling to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania on a business matter. The people in the local village fear that vampires inhabit the castle and warn Renfield not to go there. Renfield refuses to stay at the inn and asks his carriage driver to take him to the Borgo Pass. Renfield is driven to the castle by Dracula's coach, with Dracula disguised as the driver. En route, Renfield sticks his head out the window to ask the driver to slow down, but sees the driver has disappeared; a bat leads the horses.
Midnight Faces
Midnight Faces (1926)
, 55minutes
Directed by Bennett Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Kathryn McGuire, Jack Perrin, Edward Peil Sr., Charles Belcher, Nora Cecil
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52% 2.631682.631682.631682.631682.63168
A young man inherits a house in a Florida swamp from an uncle he never knew. The audience sees a person enter through a window, into what is supposed to be an unoccupied house. Those who arrive to reopen the house find themselves in danger from an unknown assailant.
The Midlanders
The Midlanders (1920)

Directed by Ida May Park, Joseph De Grasse
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bessie Love, Lloyd Bacon, Frances Raymond
Roles Director of Photography

The Squaw Man
The Squaw Man (1918)
, 1h47
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Warner Baxter, Elliott Dexter, Ann Little, Lupe Vélez, Eleanor Boardman, Katherine MacDonald
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.146563.146563.146563.146563.14656
A British army officer Captain James Wingate (Warner Baxter) is left disgraced when he takes the blame for his cousin Henry's (Paul Cavanagh) misappropriation of the regiment's charitable fund. He heads to the Wild West of the United States, taking over a ranch in Montana where he marries a beautiful Indian squaw Naturich (Lupe Velez) and have child Hal (Dickie Moore). Years later Henry arrives there with his wife Lady Diana (Eleanor Boardman), with whom James has been secretly in love.
Broadway Love
Broadway Love (1918)

Directed by Ida May Park
Origin USA
Genres Romance
Actors Lon Chaney, Dorothy Phillips, Juanita Hansen, William Stowell, Harry von Meter, Eve Southern
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58% 2.902652.902652.902652.902652.90265
The film follows the story of Midge O'Hara, a young woman living in the country, who leaves her home in order to perform on Broadway. She able to get hired as a chorus girl, and, at her new job, meets Cherry Blow, a party girl and gold digger. Cherry dates one man, staying with him until his cash runs out, upon which she leaves for someone else wealthy. One of these men is Jack Chalvey, whom Cherry had dated until his expenses from buying her so many things left him in debt. After meeting Midge, Jack, who has become depressed and almost commits suicide, reforms his life and also begins to have interest in her. However, Midge's own life becomes more complicated when her boyfriend from the country, Elmer Watkins, comes to propose to her. To make matters worse, the rich Henry Rockwell begins chasing after her.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House (1917)

Directed by Joseph De Grasse
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lon Chaney, Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5530353.5530353.5530353.5530353.553035
Fires of Rebellion
Fires of Rebellion (1917)

Directed by Ida May Park
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lon Chaney, Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell, Belle Bennett, Dick La Reno, Golda Madden
Roles Director of Photography

As described in a film magazine review, Madge Garvey (Phillips) and her father are employed in a shoe factory. Madge's brother-in-law is discharged by the new foreman, John Blake (Stowell), and in a fight with Blake is killed. Blake falls in love with Madge and she consents to marry him. The day before the wedding she goes to New York City, lured by a girl friend and a desire to get away from Sackville and its squalor. There she finds life very different. She poses for an artist, and is invited to his apartment late one night where he tries to force his attentions on her. In the meantime, Blake assists Madge's sister through her illness, and the family moves into the house Blake had furnished for his bride. Seeing a picture of a scantily clad Madge in the newspaper, Blake goes to the city where he finds Madge fainted and lying in the arms of the artist. He rescues her and they return home and are married.