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Paul Lohmann is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 5 february 1926

Paul Lohmann

Paul Lohmann
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Birth name Paul Fritz Lohmann
Nationality USA
Birth 5 february 1926
Death 10 december 1995 (at 69 years)

Paul (Fritz) Lohmann est un directeur de la photographie américain, né le 5 février 1926 à New York (État de New York) et mort le 10 décembre 1995 à Los Angeles (Californie).

Biography

Au cinéma, Paul Lohmann est chef opérateur de vingt-quatre films américains, le premier étant Les Démons de la violence de Lee Madden (1969, avec Jeremy Slate) ; le dernier sort en 1986.

Entretemps, mentionnons Nashville (1975, avec Ned Beatty et Lily Tomlin) et Buffalo Bill et les Indiens (1976, avec Paul Newman et Joel Grey), tous deux réalisés par Robert Altman, Le Grand Frisson de Mel Brooks (1977, avec le réalisateur et Cloris Leachman), C'était demain de Nicholas Meyer (1979, avec Malcolm McDowell et David Warner), ainsi que Maman très chère de Frank Perry (1981, avec Faye Dunaway et Diana Scarwid).

Actif également à la télévision américaine, Paul Lohmann est directeur de la photographie sur vingt-sept téléfilms diffusés entre 1974 et 1992, dont La Malédiction de la veuve noire de Dan Curtis (1977, avec Anthony Franciosa et Donna Mills) et Les Poupées de l'espoir de Daniel Petrie (1984, avec Jane Fonda et Geraldine Page).

S'ajoutent onze séries de 1970 à 1990, dont Masada (mini-série de Boris Sagal, 1981, avec Peter O'Toole et Peter Strauss) et Le Monde merveilleux de Disney (deux épisodes, 1987-1990).

Best films

Silent Movie (1976)
(Director of Photography)
Nashville (1975)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Dan Curtis
Dan Curtis
(6 films)
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks
(2 films)
Alan Rudolph
Alan Rudolph
(4 films)
Robert Altman
Robert Altman
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Paul Lohmann (32 films)

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Cameraman

Secrets
Secrets (1992)
, 1h33
Directed by Peter H. Hunt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about television
Actors Christopher Plummer, Stephanie Beacham, Linda Purl, Gary Collins, Ben Browder, Josie Bissett
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55% 2.75632.75632.75632.75632.7563
The film focuses on the cast and crew of a new TV series called Manhattan, which is shot on location in New York City. Mel Wexler is a successful producer who has become a workaholic since the death of his family in a plane crash. Trying to forget his loss, he throws himself on producing Manhattan. For the lead role, he tries to cast the feared film star Sabina Quarles, who has a reputation of being hard to work with. She initially declines, explaining she is too good for television. However, because of her past with Mel, she finally accepts the role. They soon start a relationship, but he remains suspicious of her constant visits to San Francisco. She is reluctant to explain why she is going there every month, which makes him think she has an affair.
Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, 1h30
Directed by Philip Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Cheryl Ladd, Jeffrey DeMunn, Frederick Coffin, Peter Jurasik, Jim Metzler, Jeff McCarthy
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53% 2.668182.668182.668182.668182.66818
Diane and Greg Halstead were once happily married, even deciding to try and have a baby in later years, despite the fact that she had already suffered two miscarriages. She has no luck in becoming pregnant and this leads to an estrangement from her husband. On his latest flight, Greg, a professional pilot, finds out about a bomb threat. The person carrying the bomb supposedly wants to kill another passenger, a politician with an outspoken opinion on abortion. Unknown to the killer, however, the politician has already left the plane because it had an hour and a half delay. Greg decides to make an emergency landing in Dayton, Ohio, but during the heavy weather, the plane crashes, killing almost everyone on board.
Scandal in a Small Town
Directed by Anthony Page
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Raquel Welch, Ronny Cox, Frances Lee McCain, Mickey Jones, Ernie Lively, Ray Girardin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.8194652.8194652.8194652.8194652.819465
Leda Beth Vincent lives in the small town of Shiloh. Her daughter is a high school student who experiences anti-Semitic propaganda in her history class. Leda thinks this is unacceptable and tries to fight the Board of Education.
Endangered Species, 1h33
Directed by Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Peter Coyote, Gailard Sartain
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.898012.898012.898012.898012.89801
Ruben Castle is a retired New York City cop and a recovering alcoholic. On vacation in Colorado, he becomes involved with a mysterious case of mutilated cattle as well as romantically involved with a female sheriff.
Mommie Dearest, 2h9
Directed by Frank Perry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Comedy, Horror
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Films about television, Films about child abuse
Actors Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Mara Hobel, Rutanya Alda, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2985953.2985953.2985953.2985953.298595
Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) is a driven actress and compulsively clean housekeeper who tries to control the lives of those around her as tightly as she controls herself. To prepare for a work day at MGM Studios, she rises at 4:00 a.m. and engages in a strict morning ritual: scrubbing her face and arms with soap and boiling hot water, then plunging her face into a bowl of rubbing alcohol and ice to close the pores. When Helga (Alice Nunn), a new maid, thinks she has Joan's living room in spotless condition, Joan finds one minor detail that she overlooked and loses her temper.
Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen, 1h37
Directed by Clive Donner, Paul Baxley
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller
Actors Peter Ustinov, Brian Keith, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Hatch, Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating40% 2.019922.019922.019922.019922.01992
Retired detective Charlie Chan is asked for his help by the San Francisco police to solve a new series of murders. But this time his usual sidekick, Number One Son, has been replaced by Lee's own son, Lee Chan, Jr.
Looker
Looker (1981)
, 1h33
Directed by Michael Crichton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films about computing, Films about suicide, Films about television, Films set in the future
Actors Albert Finney, James Coburn, Susan Dey, Leigh Taylor-Young, Terri Welles, Dorian Harewood
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0498853.0498853.0498853.0498853.049885
Dr. Larry Roberts (Albert Finney), a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, is puzzled when four beautiful models working in television commercials request cosmetic surgery to make changes so minor as to be imperceptible to the naked eye. When these models later start dying under mysterious circumstances, he discovers they are all linked to the same advertisement research firm.
Hide in Plain Sight, 1h32
Directed by James Caan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Caan, Jill Eikenberry, Joe Grifasi, Robert Viharo, Danny Aiello, Chuck Hicks
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1927653.1927653.1927653.1927653.192765
The Buffalo divorced father Thomas Hacklin discovers, on visiting his children, that his ex-wife's residence has been abandoned; he is unable to locate or contact them. He is mystified after approaching the authorities who refuse to assist but speculates when he becomes aware that her new husband is now in the United States Federal Witness Protection Program. As he makes inroads into finding their location, the police and authorities make it more difficult for him to make contact. He becomes determined -- even without police and government assistance and interference -- when the government advised the low-tier mobster new husband to marry his girlfriend in order to disqualify her from testifying against him if the government arrests him and follows through with a court trial for his activities involving crime. The Mob follows Hacklin's actions for their own purposes.
The Jayne Mansfield Story, 1h40
Directed by Dick Lowry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about television
Actors Loni Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lewis Arquette, Kathleen Lloyd, G. D. Spradlin, Whitney Rydbeck
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52% 2.612252.612252.612252.612252.61225
The film tells the fictionalized rise and fall of Hollywood bombshell and sex symbol, Jayne Mansfield.
Time After Time, 1h52
Directed by Nicholas Meyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Time travel films
Actors Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi, Patti D'Arbanville, Kent Williams
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.547253.547253.547253.547253.54725
In 1893 London, popular writer Herbert George Wells (Malcolm McDowell) displays a time machine to his skeptical dinner guests. After he explains how it works (including a "non-return key" that keeps the machine at the traveler's destination and a "vaporizing equalizer" that keeps the traveler and machine on equal terms), police constables arrive at the house searching for Jack the Ripper. A bag with blood-stained gloves belonging to one of Herbert's friends, a surgeon named John Leslie Stevenson (David Warner), leads them to conclude that Stevenson might be the infamous killer. Wells races to his laboratory, but the time machine is gone.
North Dallas Forty, 1h59
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Bo Svenson, Steve Forrest
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68% 3.4474453.4474453.4474453.4474453.447445
Wide receiver Phil Elliott (Nolte) plays for a 1970s era professional football team based in Dallas, Texas named the North Dallas Bulls, which closely resembles the Dallas Cowboys.
Meteor
Meteor (1979)
, 1h47
Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Impact events in fiction, Space opera, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Henry Fonda, Martin Landau
Roles Director of Photography
Rating51% 2.5511052.5511052.5511052.5511052.551105
After the asteroid Orpheus is hit by a comet, a five-mile chunk of Orpheus is sent on a collision course towards Earth, which will cause an extinction-level event. While the United States government engages in political maneuvering, smaller asteroid fragments precede the main body, wreaking havoc on the planet. The United States has a secret orbiting nuclear missile platform satellite named Hercules, which was designed by Dr. Paul Bradley (Sean Connery). It was intended to defend Earth against a massive space rock, but instead was demoted to become an orbiting super weapon now aimed at Russia. However, its fourteen nuclear missiles are not enough to stop the meteor.
Mrs. R's Daughter, 1h40
Directed by Dan Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Season Hubley, Belinda Balaski, Cloris Leachman, Nan Martin, John McIntire, Donald Moffat
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2815453.2815453.2815453.2815453.281545
Ellie Pruitt, une adolescente naïve est violée par un homme qui avait trop bu. L'avocate de l'individu, Lynn Hollister parvient à modifier le témoignage de la jeune fille de telle façon que les jurés acquittent le violeur. La mère décide de faire justice elle-même malgré le désaccord de son nouveau mari. L'adolescente se retrouve prise entre diverses attitudes : la colère de ses parents, l'indifférence du système judiciaire et son propre sentiment de culpabilité