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Oscar Lagerstrom is a Sound and Sound Recordist American born on 19 november 1890 at Minnesota (USA)

Oscar Lagerstrom

Oscar Lagerstrom
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Birth name Oscar Edmond Lagerstrom
Nationality USA
Birth 19 november 1890 at Minnesota (USA)
Death 30 july 1974 (at 83 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Oscar Lagerstrom (19 November 1890 – 30 July 1974) was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording for the film Raffles.

Best films

Dodsworth (1936)
(Sound Recordist)
Dancing Pirate (1936)
(Sound)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Oscar Lagerstrom (13 films)

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Sound

The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1h44
Directed by John Ford, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier, Alan Hale, Ernest Truex
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating56% 2.803732.803732.803732.803732.80373
Nicolo Polo shows treasures from China and sends his son Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) there with his assistant (and comic relief) Binguccio (Ernest Truex). They sail from Venice, are shipwrecked, and cross the desert of Persia and the mountains of Tibet to China, to seek out Peking and the palace of China's ruler, Kublai Khan (George Barbier).
The Prisoner of Zenda, 1h41
Directed by John Cromwell, W. S. Van Dyke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Adventure, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Politique, L'usurpation d'identité, Political films, Escroquerie, Films about royalty
Actors Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating75% 3.7969253.7969253.7969253.7969253.796925
English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll (Ronald Colman) takes a fishing vacation in a small middle European country (unnamed in the film; Ruritania in the novel). While there, he is puzzled by the odd reactions of the natives to him. Rassendyll discovers why when he meets Colonel Zapt (C. Aubrey Smith) and Captain Fritz von Tarlenheim (David Niven). Zapt introduces him to the soon-to-be-crowned king, Rudolf V (Colman again), who turns out to be not only his distant relative, but also in facial features close enough to be his double. Rudolf is astounded and takes a great liking to the Englishman.
A Star Is Born, 1h51
Directed by Jack Conway, William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about television
Actors Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou, Andy Devine, May Robson, Lionel Stander
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating72% 3.648053.648053.648053.648053.64805
North Dakota farmgirl Esther Victoria Blodgett (Janet Gaynor) yearns to become a Hollywood actress. Although her aunt and father discourage such thoughts, Esther's grandmother (May Robson) gives her her savings to follow her dream.
Dancing Pirate, 1h23
Directed by Lloyd Corrigan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Dance films, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Pirate films, Musical films
Actors Frank Morgan, Steffi Duna, Charles Collins, Victor Varconi, Luis Alberni, Marjorie Reynolds
Roles Sound
Rating51% 2.5735752.5735752.5735752.5735752.573575
Set in Boston the in 1820s, the film tells of dancing teacher Jonathan Pride, shanghaied by pirates and forced to be a slave aboard his own ship. Jonathan is able to join a provisioning party that lands on the coast of California, then a part of the Spanish Empire where he makes his escape; his only possessions being his umbrella and music box that he uses for his dancing lessons.
Beloved Enemy, 1h30
Directed by H. C. Potter
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Actors Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Karen Morley, David Niven, Jerome Cowan, Henry Stephenson
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating63% 3.1923453.1923453.1923453.1923453.192345
During the Irish War of Independence, Irish rebel leader Dennis Reardon (Aherne) and English aristocrat Helen Drummond (Oberon) meet and fall in love. Reardon is pursued, however, by British army officer Captain Preston (Niven).
Beloved Enemy, 1h50
Directed by H. C. Potter
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Merle Oberon, Pandiyan, Brian Aherne, Revathi, Jerome Cowan, Goundamani
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating63% 3.1923453.1923453.1923453.1923453.192345
Ponnu Pudichirukku is a love story set in a rural place.
Dodsworth
Dodsworth (1936)
, 1h41
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor, David Niven, Gregory Gaye
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating76% 3.845253.845253.845253.845253.84525
Samuel "Sam" Dodsworth (Walter Huston) is the successful, self-made and unsophisticated head of Dodsworth Motor Company, an American automobile parts manufacturing firm, based in the small Midwestern town of Zenith (also the setting for Lewis' Babbitt). His wife Fran (Ruth Chatterton), feeling trapped by the boring social life of their small-town existence, convinces her spouse to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. Sam disregards the warning of Tubby Pearson, his banker and friend, that men like them are only happy when they are working.
Vagabond Lady, 1h11
Directed by Sam Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Robert Young, Evelyn Venable, Reginald Denny, Frank Craven, Berton Churchill, Ferdinand Gottschalk
Roles Sound
Rating59% 2.9592852.9592852.9592852.9592852.959285
Irresponsible, happy-go-lucky Tony Spear returns home to the United States and his family after years of sailing throughout the Orient with his crewman Corky Nye. His wealthy department store owner father R. D. Spear and brother John are fearful of what damage he will do to their reputations as staid, respected businessmen, remembering what happened the last time.
I Cover the Waterfront, 1h15
Directed by James Cruze
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, Hobart Cavanaugh, Wilfred Lucas, Maurice Black
Roles Sound
Rating60% 3.0455553.0455553.0455553.0455553.045555
San Diego Standard reporter H. Joseph Miller (Ben Lyon) has been covering the city's waterfront for the past five years and is fed up with the work. He longs to escape the waterfront life and land a newspaper job back East so he can marry his Vermont sweatheart. Miller is frustrated by the lack of progress of his current assignment investigating the smuggling of Chinese people into the country by a fisherman named Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence). One morning after wasting a night tracking down bad leads, his editor at the Standard orders him to investigate a report of a girl swimming naked at the beach. There he meets Julie Kirk (Claudette Colbert), the daughter of the man he's been investigating.
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, 1h22
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin USA
Genres Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Al Jolson, Frank Morgan, Madge Evans, Harry Langdon, Chester Conklin, Tyler Brooke
Roles Sound
Rating68% 3.444333.444333.444333.444333.44433
Un balayeur communiste dénonce en chantant "ces riches tire-au-flanc qui vivent sur le dos des travailleurs".
The Bat Whispers, 1h23
Directed by Roland West
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Chester Morris, Una Merkel, Chance Ward, Richard Tucker, Wilson Benge, Maude Eburne
Roles Sound
Rating62% 3.14773.14773.14773.14773.1477
A mysterious criminal by the name of "The Bat" eludes police and then finally announces his retirement to the country, while a wealthy Cornelia Van Gorder takes up residence in the estate of a famous banker. Along with her maid Lizzie, her niece Dale, and a bank teller disguised as a gardener, she is terrorized by a series of strange events seemingly set in motion by the mysterious Bat. Possible suspects include a doctor, an elderly police lieutenant, a butler, a handyman, and a big-city cop.

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The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1h44
Directed by John Ford, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier, Alan Hale, Ernest Truex
Roles Sound Recordist
Rating56% 2.803732.803732.803732.803732.80373
Nicolo Polo shows treasures from China and sends his son Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) there with his assistant (and comic relief) Binguccio (Ernest Truex). They sail from Venice, are shipwrecked, and cross the desert of Persia and the mountains of Tibet to China, to seek out Peking and the palace of China's ruler, Kublai Khan (George Barbier).