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Percy Hilburn is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 8 july 1889

Percy Hilburn

Percy Hilburn
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 july 1889
Death 31 may 1946 (at 56 years)

Percy Hilburn, A.S.C., né le 8 juillet 1889 en Louisiane (lieu indéterminé), mort le 31 mai 1946 à Los Angeles (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain.

Biography

Percy Hilburn débute comme chef opérateur sur trois films muets sortis en 1915, The Goose Girl (avec Marguerite Clark, Monroe Salisbury et Jane Darwell) de Frederick A. Thomson, ainsi que The Puppet Crown (avec Ina Claire) et The Explorer (avec Lou Tellegen), tous deux réalisés par George Melford, qu'il retrouve souvent par la suite.

En tout, il contribue à soixante-douze films américains (y compris des westerns), dont les neuf derniers seulement sont parlants. Son ultime film — après lequel il se retire — est L'Homme de fer (1931, avec Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong et Jean Harlow) de Tod Browning, qu'il avait déjà croisé sur deux autres réalisations (avec Lon Chaney), L'Oiseau noir (1926) et À l'ouest de Zanzibar (1928).

Durant cette carrière assez brève, Percy Hilburn assiste également Fred Niblo (ex. : Ben-Hur, version de 1925, avec Ramón Novarro dans le rôle-titre), Victor Sjöström (ex. : Les Confessions d'une reine en 1925, avec Lewis Stone et Alice Terry), Lucien Hubbard (L'Île mystérieuse en 1929, avec Lionel Barrymore et Montagu Love), entre autres. De plus, outre George Melford, il collabore souvent avec Reginald Barker ; mentionnons The Eternal Struggle (1923, avec Renée Adorée et Wallace Beery), longtemps réputé perdu.

Best films

The Rogue Song (1930)
(Director of Photography)

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Filmography of Percy Hilburn (33 films)

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Cameraman

Iron Man
Iron Man (1931)
, 1h13
Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Boxing films
Actors Lew Ayres, Robert Armstrong, Jean Harlow, John Miljan, Edward Dillon, Mary Doran
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.899412.899412.899412.899412.89941
After lightweight prizefighter Kid Mason (Ayres) loses his opening fight, golddigging wife Rose (Harlow) leaves him for Hollywood. Without her around, Mason trains seriously and starts winning. Naturally, Rose returns and worms her way back into his life, despite the misgivings of manager George Regan (Armstrong). Eventually, she cons Mason into dumping Regan and replacing him with her secret lover Lewis (Miljan), even though he has almost no experience in the fight game. To make matters worse, Mason's high living and neglect of his training threatens his latest title defense.
The Rogue Song, 1h44
Directed by Lionel Barrymore
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Catherine Dale Owen, Oliver Hardy, Ullrich Haupt, Lionel Belmore, Nance O'Neil
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55% 2.765962.765962.765962.765962.76596
The story takes place in Russia in the year 1910. Yegor (Lawrence Tibbett), a dashing (as well as singing) bandit leader meets Princess Vera (Catherine Dale Owen) at a mountain inn. They fall in love, but the relationship is shattered when Yegor kills Vera's brother, Prince Serge, for raping his sister, Nadja, and driving her to suicide. Yegor kidnaps Vera, forcing her to live a life of lowly servitude among the bandits. Vera manages to outwit Yegor, who is captured by soldiers and flogged. Vera begs Yegor's forgiveness. Although still in love with each other, they realize they cannot be together, at least for the time being.
Children of Pleasure, 1h10
Directed by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Lawrence Gray, Wynne Gibson, Kenneth Thomson, Lee Kohlmar, May Boley, Benny Rubin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55% 2.7653152.7653152.7653152.7653152.765315
Danny, an acclaimed singer and songwriter, falls in love with a socialite girl who is just playing around. He doesn't realize that his girl-Friday is the one he really loves until it is almost too late. Although he is awestruck by high society, he overhears the girl's admission that she is stringing him along just in time to avoid marriage. Danny is notably Jewish, and among the issues the movie raises is his temptation to assimilate into the larger culture.
Good News
Good News (1930)
, 1h33
Directed by Nick Grinde, Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Sports films, American football films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Bessie Love, Rosemary Lane, Cliff Edwards, Joan McCracken
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.3487553.3487553.3487553.3487553.348755
The film is set in 1927 at fictional Tait College, where football is all the rage. ("Tait Song"/"Good News")
Way for a Sailor, 1h25
Directed by Sam Wood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors John Gilbert, Wallace Beery, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Doris Lloyd, Robert Adair
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58% 2.900852.900852.900852.900852.90085
This script must be run from the command line
The Mysterious Island, 1h35
Directed by Benjamin Christensen, Maurice Tourneur, Lucien Hubbard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Pirate films, Films based on science fiction novels, Political films
Actors Lionel Barrymore, Jacqueline Gadsden, Montagu Love, Lloyd Hughes, Harry Gribbon, Snitz Edwards
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.045773.045773.045773.045773.04577
On a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Roget have designed a submarine which Roget pilots on its initial voyage just before the island is overrun by Baron Falon, despotic ruler of Hetvia. Falon sets out after Roget in a second submarine and the two craft, diving to the ocean's floor, discover a strange land populated by dragons, giant squid and an eerie undiscovered humanoid race.
His Glorious Night, 1h20
Directed by Lionel Barrymore
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors John Gilbert, Catherine Dale Owen, Nance O'Neil, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Hedda Hopper, Doris Hill
Roles Director of Photography
Rating79% 3.9984753.9984753.9984753.9984753.998475
Although being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry officer she is secretly meeting. Her mother Eugenie (Nance O'Neil), who has found out about the affair forces her to dump Kovacs and take part in the arranged marriage. Though not believing her own words, Orsolini reluctantly tells Kovacs she cannot ever fall in love with a man with his social position, being the son of a peasant.
The Cossacks, 1h14
Directed by George William Hill, Clarence Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence, Nils Asther, Paul Hurst, Mary Alden
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.3942753.3942753.3942753.3942753.394275
West of Zanzibar, 1h5
Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about magic and magicians, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter, Jacqueline Gadsden, Kalla Pasha
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.593573.593573.593573.593573.59357
Anna (Jacqueline Gadsden) cannot bring herself to tell her professional magician husband, Phroso (Lon Chaney), that she is leaving him. Her lover, Crane (Lionel Barrymore), informs Phroso that he is taking Anna to Africa, shoving the distraught husband away so forcefully that he falls over a railing and is crippled, losing the use of his legs. After a year, Phroso learns that Anna has returned. He finds his wife dead in a church, with a baby beside her. He swears to avenge himself on both Crane and the child.
After Midnight
Directed by Monta Bell
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Norma Shearer, Gwen Lee, Lawrence Gray, Eddie Sturgis, John Mack Brown
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69% 3.493343.493343.493343.493343.49334
A story of New York's nightlife: Mary (Norma Shearer) is a cabaret hostess with a heart of gold and her sister Maizie (Gwen Lee) is a gold-digger with no heart.
Beverly of Graustark, 1h10
Directed by Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Marion Davies, Antonio Moreno, Creighton Hale, Roy D'Arcy, Albert Gran, Paulette Duval
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.28613.28613.28613.28613.2861
Beverly Calhoun (Davies) impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan (Moreno).