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Walter L. Griffin is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 19 july 1889
Walter L. Griffin was a founder of the American Society of Cinematographers. Griffin started working in pictures in 1912 and spent a year and a half in the lab before he first cranked a camera for Universal Pictures. In 1915, he joined the Exposition Players’ Corporation, official cinematographers of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, where he headed photographic and lab operations. When the exposition closed in 1916, he spent four months in Colorado, making scenic films for the Denver Tourist Bureau.
Returning to Hollywood, Griffin signed on with the National Film Corporation, where he shot some 25 comedies featuring National’s owner, William “Smiling Bill” Parsons. His best-remembered film is the Lon Chaney vehicle Nomads of the North (1920), which was filmed for the National Film Corporation but was released through the Associated First National Exhibitors Circuit after Parsons’ untimely death caused the NFC to close. Through the early 1920s, Griffin ground out low-budget Westerns starring Bob Custer, Franklyn Farnum and Al Hoxie. In the mid-1920s, he gave up wide-open spaces for the great indoors and shot a number modest melodramas, such as Rose of the Bowery (1927) and The Heart of Broadway (1928). His last known credit as a cinematographer is City of Purple Dreams (1928).
Suivent notamment The Man of Bronze (1918, avec Lewis Stone), Nomads of the North (1920, avec Betty Blythe et Lon Chaney) et Le Piège doré (1921, avec Lewis Stone et Wallace Beery), tous trois réalisés par David Hartford, A Dangerous Adventure de Jack L. Warner et Sam Warner (1922, avec Grace Darmond et Philo McCullough), ou encore The Silent Partner de Charles Maigne (1923, avec Leatrice Joy et Owen Moore).
À noter qu'il est également monteur (en plus de chef opérateur) sur deux autres réalisations de David Hartford, The Man in the Shadow (1926, avec David Torrence et Myrtle Stedman) et God's Great Wilderness (1927, avec Russell Simpson et Rose Tapley).
Ses six derniers films sortent en 1928, dont The Heart of Broadway de Duke Worne (avec Pauline Garon et Wheeler Oakman), après quoi il se retire.
Walter L. Griffin est l'un des quinze membres fondateurs de l'American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), en 1919.
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Returning to Hollywood, Griffin signed on with the National Film Corporation, where he shot some 25 comedies featuring National’s owner, William “Smiling Bill” Parsons. His best-remembered film is the Lon Chaney vehicle Nomads of the North (1920), which was filmed for the National Film Corporation but was released through the Associated First National Exhibitors Circuit after Parsons’ untimely death caused the NFC to close. Through the early 1920s, Griffin ground out low-budget Westerns starring Bob Custer, Franklyn Farnum and Al Hoxie. In the mid-1920s, he gave up wide-open spaces for the great indoors and shot a number modest melodramas, such as Rose of the Bowery (1927) and The Heart of Broadway (1928). His last known credit as a cinematographer is City of Purple Dreams (1928).
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Entré dans l'industrie du cinéma en 1912, Walter L. Griffin rejoint en 1916 la National Film Corporation (future First National Pictures). Il est chef opérateur sur quarante-neuf films muets américains, le premier étant le court métrage The Story of Jewel City de William Nigh, tourné en marge de l'exposition universelle de 1915 à San Francisco et sorti cette même année 1915.Suivent notamment The Man of Bronze (1918, avec Lewis Stone), Nomads of the North (1920, avec Betty Blythe et Lon Chaney) et Le Piège doré (1921, avec Lewis Stone et Wallace Beery), tous trois réalisés par David Hartford, A Dangerous Adventure de Jack L. Warner et Sam Warner (1922, avec Grace Darmond et Philo McCullough), ou encore The Silent Partner de Charles Maigne (1923, avec Leatrice Joy et Owen Moore).
À noter qu'il est également monteur (en plus de chef opérateur) sur deux autres réalisations de David Hartford, The Man in the Shadow (1926, avec David Torrence et Myrtle Stedman) et God's Great Wilderness (1927, avec Russell Simpson et Rose Tapley).
Ses six derniers films sortent en 1928, dont The Heart of Broadway de Duke Worne (avec Pauline Garon et Wheeler Oakman), après quoi il se retire.
Walter L. Griffin est l'un des quinze membres fondateurs de l'American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), en 1919.
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A Desperate Adventure (1924)
, 50minutesDirected by J. P. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Franklyn Farnum, Marie Walcamp, Priscilla Bonner
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
The Silent Partner (1923)
, 1hDirected by Charles Maigne
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Leatrice Joy, Owen Moore, Robert Edeson, Robert Schable, E. H. Calvert, Bess Flowers
Roles Director of Photography
Nomads of the North (1920)
, 1h49Directed by Lambert Hillyer, David Hartford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Betty Blythe, Lon Chaney, Lewis Stone, Francis McDonald, Spottiswoode Aitken, Melbourne MacDowell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
When impoverished Nanette Roland refuses to marry Buck McDougall until she is convinced that her long-absent fiancé, Raoul Challoner, is dead, Buck obtains false evidence of Challoner's death and Nanette yields to his wishes. At their wedding ceremony, Raoul appears and is about to take Nanette away, when Buck attacks him and, in the ensuing battle, Raoul accidentally kills a man and is arrested. That night, Nanette helps him escape and, after a hasty wedding, they flee into the wilderness. Corporal O'Connor of the North-West Mounted Police is given the assignment of capturing him, and three years later, the Mountie, aided by Buck, discovers Raoul's cabin in the woods. Just as he arrests the fugitive, a forest fire breaks out, trapping Nanette, Raoul and their baby in the flames. O'Connor, injured by a fallen tree, is rescued by Raoul and the four reach safety, but Buck perishes in the fire. O'Connor, feeling a debt of gratitude, agrees to testify to Raoul's death and the family realizes that their troubles are at an end.
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Nomads of the North (1920)
, 1h49Directed by Lambert Hillyer, David Hartford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Betty Blythe, Lon Chaney, Lewis Stone, Francis McDonald, Spottiswoode Aitken, Melbourne MacDowell
Roles Cinematography
Rating58%
When impoverished Nanette Roland refuses to marry Buck McDougall until she is convinced that her long-absent fiancé, Raoul Challoner, is dead, Buck obtains false evidence of Challoner's death and Nanette yields to his wishes. At their wedding ceremony, Raoul appears and is about to take Nanette away, when Buck attacks him and, in the ensuing battle, Raoul accidentally kills a man and is arrested. That night, Nanette helps him escape and, after a hasty wedding, they flee into the wilderness. Corporal O'Connor of the North-West Mounted Police is given the assignment of capturing him, and three years later, the Mountie, aided by Buck, discovers Raoul's cabin in the woods. Just as he arrests the fugitive, a forest fire breaks out, trapping Nanette, Raoul and their baby in the flames. O'Connor, injured by a fallen tree, is rescued by Raoul and the four reach safety, but Buck perishes in the fire. O'Connor, feeling a debt of gratitude, agrees to testify to Raoul's death and the family realizes that their troubles are at an end.