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Leonard Smith is a Actor, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 19 april 1894 at Brooklyn (USA)
Leonard Smith (April 19, 1894 - October 20, 1947) was an Academy Award-winning cinematographer who had over 70 film credits from a career that spanned from 1915 to 1946.
Au nombre des réalisateurs qu'il assiste, citons Clarence Brown (ex. : Jody et le Faon en 1946, son dernier film, avec Gregory Peck et Jane Wyman), Edward Buzzell (ex. : Un jour au cirque en 1939, avec les Marx Brothers), Edward Sedgwick (ex. : Buster se marie en 1931, avec Buster Keaton), ou encore Richard Thorpe (ex. : Tarzan trouve un fils en 1939, avec Johnny Weissmuller et Maureen O'Sullivan).
Dans les années 1940, il obtient quatre nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie, dont un gagné en 1947 (quelques mois avant sa mort) pour Jody et le Faon.
Membre de l'American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), il en est le président de 1943 à 1947.
(1946)
(Director of Photography)
(1945)
(Director of Photography)
(1933)
(Director of Photography)
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Nationality USA
Birth 19 april 1894 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 20 october 1947 (at 53 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
Birth 19 april 1894 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 20 october 1947 (at 53 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)
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Leonard Smith né dans l'arrondissement de Brooklyn à New York. Il débute comme chef opérateur sur un film muet sorti en 1915 (The Battle Cry of Peace) et contribue en tout à soixante-treize films américains (y compris une quinzaine muets, dont des courts métrages de Norman Taurog), les deux derniers sortis en 1946.Au nombre des réalisateurs qu'il assiste, citons Clarence Brown (ex. : Jody et le Faon en 1946, son dernier film, avec Gregory Peck et Jane Wyman), Edward Buzzell (ex. : Un jour au cirque en 1939, avec les Marx Brothers), Edward Sedgwick (ex. : Buster se marie en 1931, avec Buster Keaton), ou encore Richard Thorpe (ex. : Tarzan trouve un fils en 1939, avec Johnny Weissmuller et Maureen O'Sullivan).
Dans les années 1940, il obtient quatre nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie, dont un gagné en 1947 (quelques mois avant sa mort) pour Jody et le Faon.
Membre de l'American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), il en est le président de 1943 à 1947.
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Our Miss Brooks (1956)
, 1h25Directed by Al Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Gene Barry, Don Porter, Robert Rockwell, Jane Morgan
Roles Fabian "Stretch" Snodgrass
Rating63%
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
, 2h4Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Political films, Road movies
Actors Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, Kim Hunter, Charles Hawtrey, Esmond Knight
Roles Leslie
Rating72%
The story concerns three young people: British Army Sergeant Peter Gibbs (Dennis Price), U.S. Army Sergeant Bob Johnson (played by real-life Sergeant John Sweet), and a "Land Girl", Miss Alison Smith (Sheila Sim). The group arrive at the railway station in the fictitious small Kent town of Chillingbourne (filmed in Chilham, Fordwich, Wickhambreaux and other villages in the area), near Canterbury, late on Friday night, 27 August 1943. Peter has been stationed at a nearby Army camp, Alison is due to start working on a farm in the area, and Bob left the train by mistake, hearing the announcement "next stop Canterbury" and thinking he was in Canterbury.
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The Yearling (1946)
, 2h8Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about families, Children's films
Actors Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr., Henry Travers, Clem Bevans, Margaret Wycherly
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Ezra "Penny" Baxter (Gregory Peck), once a Confederate soldier, and his wife Ora (Jane Wyman), are pioneer farmers near Lake George, Florida in 1878. Their son, Jody (Claude Jarman, Jr.), a boy in his pre-teen years, is their only surviving child. Jody has a wonderful relationship with his warm and loving father. Ora, however, is still haunted by the deaths of the three other children of the family. She is very somber, and is afraid that Jody will end up dying if she shows her parental love to him. Jody finds her somewhat unloving and unreasonable.
Courage of Lassie (1946)
, 1h32Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Pal, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Harry Davenport, Selena Royle, Tom Drake
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
A collie pup is separated from his mother and grows to young adulthood in the forest. After being swept away in a torrent and then shot by a young hunter, he is found by Kathie Merrick (Elizabeth Taylor) and carried to her home. With the help of a kindly shepherd, Mr. MacBain (Frank Morgan), she tends him back to health, names him Bill, and teaches him to herd sheep.
National Velvet (1945)
, 2h3Directed by Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film
Actors Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere, Angela Lansbury, Reginald Owen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72%
National Velvet is the story of a 12-year-old girl, Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives in the small town of Sewels in Sussex, England, who wins a spirited gelding in a raffle and decides to train him for the Grand National steeplechase. She is aided by a penniless young drifter named Mi (or Michael) Taylor (Mickey Rooney), who found Mrs. Brown's name and address among his late father's effects, but is unaware of what it was doing there. Hoping to gain some money from the association, Mi stays at the Browns' home, but Mrs. Brown is unwilling to allow Mi to trade on his father's good name and remains vague about how she knew him. Nevertheless she convinces her husband (Donald Crisp) to hire Mi over his better judgment, and Mi is brought into the home as a hired hand. It is revealed that Mi had been a jockey in Manchester, but his career ended in a collision which resulted in the death of another jockey. Since then Mi has not held a job, and he has come to hate horses. Velvet's horse is named "The Pie," short for "Pirate," the epithet given him by his owner due to the horse jumping clear of his paddock and wrecking things in the village. The man decides to be rid of the Pie, and offers him up in a raffle. Velvet wins The Pie, and on realizing the extent of the horses natural talent, she pleads with Mi to train the horse for the Grand National. He believes it a fools errand, not because of the horse, but because they have no real way to support the effort. He makes his case to Mrs. Brown, but she consents to Velvet's desire to train the horse. Velvet and Mi train the horse and enter him into the race. An experienced jockey is hired to ride him. The night before the race Velvet senses that the jockey hired to ride The Pie has no faith in him, and doesn't believe the horse can win. Velvet convinces Mi to fire the jockey, leaving them without a rider. That night Mi determines to overcome his fears and ride The Pie himself. Instead, he discovers that Velvet has slipped on the jockey's colors, and intends to ride the horse in the race herself. Aware of the dangers of such a race, Mi pleads with Velvet but is unable to dissuade her. As the race unfolds Velvet and The Pie avoid a number of falls, clear all the hurdles and win the race. Elated by their win, Velvet faints and falls off her mount at the finish. As she is revived the race doctor realizes she is not a young man, but a young woman. As such she and The Pie are disqualified, but Velvet knows The Pie proved himself. Velvet becomes a media sensation, declining an offer of £5,000 to travel to Hollywood with The Pie to be filmed. She ran the Pie at the Grand National because he deserved to have a chance. He wasn't an oddity to be stared at. In refusing the offer she states simply: "He wouldn't like being looked at." At the close of the film Mi takes his leave, and Mrs. Brown gives Velvet permission to reveal to him the nature of her relationship with his father. Velvet rides off to catch up with Mi and tell him that his father had been Mrs. Brown's coach when she won the prize as the first woman to swim the English Channel, many years before.
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
, 1h55Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors George Murphy, Charles Winninger, Gloria DeHaven, Lena Horne, Nancy Walker, Ben Blue
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
Lassie Come Home (1943)
, 1h29Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about dogs, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Pal, Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Elizabeth Taylor
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
Set in Depression-era Yorkshire, England, Mr. and Mrs. Carraclough (Donald Crisp and Elsa Lanchester) are hit by hard times and forced to sell their collie, Lassie (Pal), to the rich Duke of Rudling (Nigel Bruce), who has always admired her. Young Joe Carraclough (Roddy McDowall) grows despondent at the loss of his companion.
Best Foot Forward (1943)
, 1h34Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Lucille Ball, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler, Nancy Walker, June Allyson, Chill Wills
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
The story centers around Lucille Ball who plays herself against the backdrop of a military academy full of frisky boys. Ball is the reluctant guest of a diminutive cadet, Bud Hooper (Tommy Dix), who wrote her a "mash note" and invitation to be his date at a school prom.
Seven Sweethearts (1942)
, 1h38Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Kathryn Grayson, Marsha Hunt, Van Heflin, Cecilia Parker, Frances Rafferty, Peggy Moran
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Mr. Van Maaster (S.Z. Sakall) is a hotelier in Little Delft, Michigan. By family tradition, the oldest of his seven daughters must marry first. But Regina (Marsha Hunt) wants to go to New York, to become an actress. The youngest, Billie (Kathryn Grayson), has the sweetest singing voice, and it is she who ends up with the first husband Henry Taggart (Van Heflin).
Ship Ahoy (1942)
, 1h35Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Virginia O'Brien, Tommy Dorsey, Baldwin Cooke
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Tallulah Winters is a dancing star who is hired to perform on an ocean liner. Before she leaves, she is recruited by what she believes is a branch of the American government and asked to smuggle a prototype explosive mine out of the country. In fact, she is unknowingly working for Nazi agents who have stolen the mine. Meanwhile, Merton Kibble (Red Skelton), a writer of pulp fiction adventure stories but suffering from severe writer's block, is on the same ship and soon he finds himself embroiled in Tallulah's real-life adventure. Also appearing in the film were Bert Lahr, Tommy Dorsey, Buddy Rich, and Virginia O'Brien.
Billy the Kid (1941)
, 1h34Directed by Frank Borzage, David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Gangster films
Actors Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter, Mary Howard, Gene Lockhart, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56%
The year is 1880 and William Bonney (Robert Taylor) is already a famous gunslinger, known as "Billy the Kid". In Lincoln, New Mexico, Billy helps his friend Pedro Gonzales (Frank Puglia) escape from jail, where he was put by mean sheriff Cass McAndrews (Cy Kendall).
Smilin' Through (1941)
, 1h40Directed by Frank Borzage, Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres War, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond, Ian Hunter, Wyndham Standing
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Vieil aristocrate veuf, le solitaire John Carteret finit par adopter la délicieuse Kathleen, âgée de cinq ans, une nièce de sa femme décédée ..... Au fil des années, il retrouve dans les traits de l'orpheline grandissante, le souvenir de son amour qui fut tuée lors de la cérémonie nuptiale, par un prétendant jaloux. Et lorsque la demoiselle se sent bien des inclinaisons pour un fringant soldat Kenneth Wayne, qui s'avère être le fils du meurtrier, Carteret se braque ...
Design for Scandal (1941)
, 1h25Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Lee Bowman, Jean Rogers, Mary Beth Hughes
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
When wealthy newspaper publisher Judson M. Blair (Edward Arnold) divorces his wife Adele (Mary Beth Hughes), Judge Cornelia C. Porter (Rosalind Russell) awards Adele alimony of $4000 a month for five years or until she remarries. After learning from his lawyer, Northcott (Thurston Hall), that Porter refuses to hear an appeal, the furious Blair tries using his influence with her boss, Judge Graham (Guy Kibbee), to have her transferred, but to no avail.
The Mortal Storm (1940)
, 1h40Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Robert Young, Frank Morgan, Robert Stack, Bonita Granville
Roles Director of Photography
Rating76%
In 1933, Freya Roth (Margaret Sullavan) is a young German girl engaged to a Nazi party member (Robert Young). When she realizes the true nature of his political views she breaks the engagement and turns her attention to anti-Nazi Martin Breitner (James Stewart). Her father, Professor Roth (Frank Morgan), does not abide by the attitude of the new order towards scientific fact.
The Captain Is a Lady (1940)
, 1h5Directed by Robert B. Sinclair
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Charles Coburn, Beulah Bondi, Helen Westley, Virginia Grey, Marjorie Main, Helen Broderick
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%