Known For
Camera
Born
Nov 30, 1886
Died
Dec 16, 1981
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
106 titles
Karl Struss
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karl Struss, A.S.C. (November 30, 1886 – December 15, 1981) was an American photographer and a cinematographer of the 1900s through the 1950s. He was also one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films. While he mostly worked on films, such as F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Limelight, he was also one of the cinematographers for the television series Broken Arrow and photographed 19 episodes of My Friend Flicka. In 1919, after his discharge from WWI, he moved to Los Angeles and signed on with Cecil B. DeMille as a cameraman, initially for the film For Better, For Worse starring Gloria Swanson, followed by another Swanson film Male and Female and leading to a two-year contract with the studio In early 1921, he married Ethel Wall, who helped to support him in his photographic work independent of the film studios, which included pictorial views set in California In the 1920s, Struss worked on such films as Ben-Hur and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. In 1927, he contracted with United Artists, where he worked with D. W. Griffith on such films as Drums of Love and also filmed Mary Pickford's first talking film Coquette. He continued his experimental work with camera technology, developing the "Lupe Light" and a new bracket system for the Bell & Howell camera. From 1931 through 1945, Struss worked as a cameraman for Paramount, where he worked on a variety of material including films featuring Mae West, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour Struss also aimed to shape the field through publishing; for example, in 1934 he authored "Photographic Modernism and the Cinematographer" for American Cinematographer. Struss was later admitted to the American Society of Cinematographers, and was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts. In 1949, while working as a freelancer, he began his work in "stereo cinematography", becoming one of the first proponents of that art form. Unfortunately, he did most of his 3D film work in Italy and none of his films were subsequently released in 3D in the United States. Struss's photographic archive of exhibition prints, film stills, negatives and papers (3 linear feet of materials) is available at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art located in Fort Worth, Texas.
Known For
Filmography
Counterplot
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The Alligator People
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Machete
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The Fly
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The Deerslayer
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She Devil
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Kronos
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Mohawk
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Attila
Camera Operator
Poverty and Nobility
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Two Nights with Cleopatra
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Funniest Show on Earth
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Neapolitan Turk
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Mesa of Lost Women
Cinematography
Domenica a Capri
Director
Limelight
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Tarzan's Savage Fury
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Rose of Cimarron
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Lady Possessed
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Tarzan's Peril
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The Cinematographer
Self
The Texan Meets Calamity Jane
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The Return of Jesse James
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It's a Small World
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Rocketship X-M
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Call of the Forest
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Tarzan's Magic Fountain
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Siren of Atlantis
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Hello Out There
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The Dude Goes West
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The Macomber Affair
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Suspense
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Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
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Bring on the Girls
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Rainbow Island
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And the Angels Sing
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Riding High
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Journey into Fear
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Happy Go Lucky
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Aloma of the South Seas
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Caught in the Draft
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The Great Dictator
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The Star Maker
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Island of Lost Men
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Zenobia
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Paris Honeymoon
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Thanks for the Memory
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Sing, You Sinners
Cinematography
Every Day's a Holiday
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Mountain Music
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