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Jack Greenhalgh is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 23 july 1904 at New York City (USA)

Jack Greenhalgh

Jack Greenhalgh
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Birth name John H. Greenhalgh Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 23 july 1904 at New York City (USA)
Death 3 september 1971 (at 67 years)

Jack Greenhalgh est un directeur de la photographie américain (membre de l'ASC), né John H. Greenhalgh Jr. le 23 juillet 1904 à New York (État de New York), mort le 3 septembre 1971 à Los Angeles — Quartier de North Hollywood (Californie).

Biography

Assistant opérateur vers la fin des années 1920, Jack Greenhalgh est chef opérateur sur deux-cent quatre films américains de série B, sortis entre 1935 et 1953. Un grand nombre d'entre eux sont des réalisations de Sam Newfield produites par la Producers Releasing Corporation, dont des westerns (notamment avec Buster Crabbe ou Tim McCoy) et des films d'horreur.

Mentionnons Reefer Madness de Louis J. Gasnier (1936, avec Dave O'Brien et Thelma White), Hitler's Madman de Douglas Sirk (1943, avec Patricia Morison et John Carradine), Plaisirs interdits de Sam Newfield (1949, avec Alan Baxter et Lyle Talbot), ou encore Robot Monster de Phil Tucker (son avant-dernier film, 1953, avec George Nader et Selena Royle).

Pour la télévision, Jack Greenhalgh contribue à deux séries en 1951 et 1952, dont Les Aventures de Kit Carson (1951).

Best films

Hell's Angels (1930)
(Aerial Camera)

Usually with

Sam Newfield
Sam Newfield
(22 films)
Sigmund Neufeld
Sigmund Neufeld
(19 films)
Leo Erdody
Leo Erdody
(9 films)
Hugh Beaumont
Hugh Beaumont
(8 films)
John Elliott
John Elliott
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jack Greenhalgh (46 films)

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Cameraman

Robot Monster, 1h2
Directed by Phil Tucker
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Post-apocalyptic films, La préhistoire, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Animaux préhistoriques, Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors George Nader, George Barrows, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle, John Mylong, John Brown
Roles Director of Photography
Rating30% 1.51711.51711.51711.51711.5171
Evil Moon robot Ro-Man Extension XJ-2 (George Barrows), referred to as just Ro-Man, has seemingly destroyed all human life on Earth with a Calcinator death ray, all except for eight humans that remain alive. The survivors are an older scientist (John Mylong), his wife, two daughters, his young son Johnny (Gregory Moffett), his assistant, and two space pilots that shortly take off in a spaceship for an orbiting space platform. All eight have now developed an immunity to Ro Man's death ray, having received an experimental antibiotic serum developed by the scientist.
FBI Girl
FBI Girl (1951)
, 1h14
Directed by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Cesar Romero, Margia Dean, George Brent, Audrey Totter, Tom Drake, Raymond Greenleaf
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.00133.00133.00133.00133.0013
Governor Grisby is politically ambitious, as is ruthless right-hand man Blake and a man on their payroll, Chercourt, an influential lobbyist. There is a problem, though: Grisby is actually a wanted murderer named John Williams.
Lost Continent, 1h23
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, La préhistoire, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Whit Bissell, Chick Chandler, Sid Melton, Hugh Beaumont
Roles Director of Photography
Rating33% 1.664541.664541.664541.664541.66454
Maj. Joe Nolan (Cesar Romero) is the head of an expedition to the South Pacific to retrieve an atomic-powered rocket that vanished without a trace. He had previously lived in a South American jungle, as has fellow serviceman and pilot Lt. Danny Wilson (Chick Chandler), who is also on the expedition. Aircraft mechanic Sgt. William Tatlow (Sid Melton) is also recruited for the expedition, which includes the three scientists who helped build the rocket.
New Mexico
New Mexico (1951)
, 1h16
Directed by Irving Reis
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Lew Ayres, Robert Hutton, Marilyn Maxwell, Andy Devine, Raymond Burr, Lloyd Corrigan
Roles Additional Photography
Rating56% 2.808332.808332.808332.808332.80833
Abraham Lincoln himself comes to New Mexico to discuss living together in peace with Acoma, a feared and respective Indian chief. He presents the chief with a cane as a gift and symbol of their friendship.
Slaughter Trail, 1h18
Directed by Irving Allen
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Brian Donlevy, Gig Young, Virginia Grey, Andy Devine, Robert Hutton, Lois Hall
Roles Director of Photography
Rating46% 2.3286952.3286952.3286952.3286952.328695
A trio of masked bandits rob a stagecoach secretly assisted by one of the passengers. The fleeing bandits come across some unarmed Navajo who they shoot and steal their horses. One of the Navajo survives and informs the tribe who sets his tribe on the warpath against all whites. The commander of the US Cavalry fort who is friendly with the Navajo chief is caught in the middle.
Dakota Lil
Dakota Lil (1950)
, 1h28
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Marie Windsor, John Emery, Wallace Ford, Jack Lambert
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58% 2.9063252.9063252.9063252.9063252.906325
Tom, un agent secret à la recherche de bande de faussaires, gagne la confiance de l'un des instigateurs du gang.
Wild Weed
Wild Weed (1949)
, 1h10
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Documentary films about health care
Actors Alan Baxter, Lyle Talbot, Lila Leeds, David Jack Holt, Donald Patrick Harvey II, Joseph Kenneth Shovlin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating44% 2.229732.229732.229732.229732.22973
Leeds' character is "Anne Lester", a young orphan who is trying to pay for her brother's college education. After meeting Markey, a drug dealer, Anne begins to believe that she must smoke marijuana to fit in with her friends. She then goes to a "tea party", where she tries the drug for the first time. She is unaffected by the initial experiment, and loses her fear of drugs as she continues to smoke.
State Department: File 649, 1h27
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films
Actors William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce, Jonathan Hale, Frank Ferguson, Richard Loo, Philip Ahn
Roles Director of Photography
Rating47% 2.393942.393942.393942.393942.39394
Kenneth Seeley (William Lundigan), member of the U. S. State Department's Foreign Service Bureau, and Marge Weldon (Virginia Bruce ), a morale worker with the bureau, are assigned to an area in Mongolia dominated by an outlaw warlord. The latter captures the village where they reside and they´ll have to make a plan to escape.
Dead Men Walk, 1h4
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Dwight Frye, George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young, Forrest Taylor, Fern Emmett
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48% 2.405442.405442.405442.405442.40544
The story involves a kindly small-town physician Doctor Lloyd Clayton (George Zucco), who attends the funeral of his twin brother, the evil magician Elwyn, whom he has secretly murdered because of the latter's deep involvement in the occult sciences. Evil Elwyn's hunchback assistant Zolarr (Dwight Frye) suspects the good doctor of doing away with his master and confronts him on this matter, but the doctor swears that he only acted in self-defense when his brother had become a danger to society. Unfortunately, the evil twin brother had gone too far meddling with the dark arts before his demise, and with the help of his assistant he returns to life as a vampire. The doctor and his beautiful young niece, Gayle Clayton (Mary Carlisle) soon discover that evil forces still are at work even after Elwyn's funeral and are horrified to learn that the resurrected Elwyn is set on a gruesome revenge against his brother and his niece.
Money Madness, 1h13
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Hugh Beaumont, Frances Rafferty, Harlan Warde, Lane Chandler, Dick Elliott, Don C. Harvey
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58% 2.9402252.9402252.9402252.9402252.940225
Steve Clark (Hugh Beaumont) is on a Los Angeles-bound bus and gets off in a small town on the way. He first hides a large amount of cash he had been carrying in his suitcase. Then he gets a job, which leads him to a chance encounter with Julie Saunders (Frances Rafferty), a local woman in her 20s. Julie lives with an elderly, bitter aunt who makes her life miserable. Clark, with his charm and original outlook on life, instantly becomes a ray of sunlight for her, and they quickly marry.
Miraculous Journey, 1h23
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Rory Calhoun, Virginia Grey, Audrey Long, Thurston Hall, George Cleveland, Jim Bannon
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1768053.1768053.1768053.1768053.176805
A group of seven people - an actress, a blind girl, a financier, a gangster, an heiress, a hostess, and a pilot - survive an airplane crash to find themselves deserted in an African jungle. The group come across an old hermit who has been living on the island for a while. The hermit teaches them how to survive in the jungle, though the unrepentant gangster is eaten by a crocodile. Eventually, a member of the group named Larry uses a canoe to get off the island. Larry locates a helicopter and flies back to the island, where he picks up the rest of the group. Although they offer the hermit a ride, he declines the offer, feeling he has become too attached to the jungle.
Fear in the Night, 1h12
Directed by Maxwell Shane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Ann Doran, Charles Victor, Robert Emmett Keane, Jeff York
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1941853.1941853.1941853.1941853.194185
Bank teller Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley) dreams that he stabs a man in an octagonal room of mirrors and locks the body in a closet. When he wakes up, he discovers marks on his throat, a strange key and a button in his pocket, and blood on his cuff. Cliff Herlihy (Paul Kelly), his police officer brother-in-law, tries to convince him it was just a dream.
Too Many Winners, 1h1
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Actors Hugh Beaumont, Trudy Marshall, Ralph Dunn, Claire Carleton, Grandon Rhodes, John Hamilton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.0893953.0893953.0893953.0893953.089395
Le détective privé Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont) se retrouve embarqué dans une affaire de faux billets ayant pour cadre l'hippodrome local. Il fait tour à tour la rencontre du propriétaire du journal local, Gil Madden (Ben Welden ), de la riche Mayme Martin (Claire Carleton), du directeur de la piste John Hardeman (Grandon Rhodes), de l'imprimeur Ben Edwards (Byron Foulger) et d'un tas d'autres personnages et ce sous l'œil du détective Pete Rafferty (Ralph Dunn ) et secondé par sa secrétaire Phyllis Hamilton (Trudy Marshall).