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Bert Glennon is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 19 november 1893 at Anaconda (USA)

Bert Glennon

Bert Glennon
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Birth name Robert Lawrence Glennon
Nationality USA
Birth 19 november 1893 at Anaconda (USA)
Death 29 june 1967 (at 73 years) at Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles (USA)

Bert Glennon, né Robert Lawrence Glennon le 19 novembre 1893 à Anaconda (Montana), mort le 29 juin 1967 à Los Angeles — Quartier de Sherman Oaks (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie, réalisateur et acteur américain, membre de l'ASC.

Biography

Au cinéma, Bert Glennon apparaît comme acteur dans un court métrage muet (1912), puis dans un long métrage muet (1914), The Patchwork Girl of Oz de J. Farrell MacDonald, inspiré des récits du pays d'Oz, où il tient le rôle de l'épouvantail.

Cette première expérience reste sans lendemain et il devient chef opérateur à l'occasion de Ramona (réputé perdu), réalisé par Donald Crisp et sorti en 1916. Il exerce cette activité sur cent-quinze films américains (dont près de quarante muets), y compris plusieurs westerns. Son dernier long métrage est The Man from Galveston de William Conrad (1963, avec Jeffrey Hunter et James Coburn), après lequel il se retire.

En particulier, Bert Glennon est connu pour sa collaboration avec les réalisateurs Josef von Sternberg (quatre films, dont L'Impératrice rouge en 1934, avec Marlène Dietrich et John Lodge) et John Ford (huit films, dont Rio Grande en 1950, avec John Wayne et Maureen O'Hara). Sinon, il assiste notamment Cecil B. DeMille (deux films, dont Les Dix Commandements, version muette de 1923, avec Theodore Roberts et Charles de Rochefort), Raoul Walsh (deux films, dont La Charge fantastique en 1941, avec Errol Flynn et Olivia de Havilland), Michael Curtiz (quatre films, dont Mission à Moscou en 1943, avec Walter Huston et Ann Harding), Delmer Daves (quatre films, dont La Maison rouge en 1947, avec Edward G. Robinson et Judith Anderson), ou encore André De Toth (quatre films, dont Chasse au gang en 1953, avec Sterling Hayden), entre autres.

En 1940 et 1942, il obtient trois nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie (voir détails ci-dessous), mais n'en gagne pas.

En marge de son activité principale de chef opérateur, il est aussi réalisateur de neuf films (un seul muet), sortis entre 1928 et 1932, dont Perfect Crime (1928, avec Clive Brook et Irene Rich). Signalons qu'il est également monteur (l'unique fois de sa carrière) du dernier, South of Santa Fe.

Enfin, à la télévision, Bert Glennon est directeur de la photographie sur quatorze séries, de 1955 à 1963.

Il est inhumé au San Fernando Mission Cemetery à Mission Hills (Los Angeles).

Best films

This Is the Army (1943)
(Director of Photography)
San Antonio (1945)
(Director of Photography)
Stagecoach (1939)
(Director of Photography)
Morning Glory (1933)
(Director of Photography)
The Patriot (1928)
(Director of Photography)
The Hurricane (1937)
(Director of Photography)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bert Glennon (79 films)

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Director

Girl of the Port, 1h5
Directed by Bert Glennon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Sally O'Neil, Mitchell Lewis, John Webb Dillon, Donald MacKenzie, Crauford Kent, Frank Lackteen
Rating58% 2.913942.913942.913942.913942.91394
Jim, a British Lord, suffers from pyrophobia, a fear of fire, which he developed during the war. Unable to cope with his condition, he flees civilization, coming to rest in the island paradise of Suva, in Fiji. As he is attempting to drink himself into forgetfulness, he meets Josie, who is a showgirl stranded on the island. Josie had become friends with Kalita, who talked the owner of the bar into giving Josie a job. It is in the bar where Jim and Josie meet, and the two develop a liking for one another, which causes McEwen, the local heavy to become jealous.
Paradise Island, 1h8
Directed by Bert Glennon
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Kenneth Harlan, Marceline Day, Tom Santschi, Paul Hurst, Betty Boyd, Victor Potel
Rating47% 2.356582.356582.356582.356582.35658
Ellen Bradford arrive dans une île des mers du sud pour y retrouver son fiancé Roy Armstrong, mais il est devenu alcoolique et plein de dettes envers Lutze, le propriétaire du saloon local, qui fait aussi office de tripot. Réalisant son désarroi, Lutze lui vient en aide, en espérant qu'elle tombera amoureuse de lui. Mais l'intervention de Jim Thorne, qui regagne au jeu les dettes d'Armstrong, conduit Ellen à lui avouer son affection.
Syncopation, 1h23
Directed by Bert Glennon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Barbara Bennett, Ian Hunter, Osgood Perkins, Mackenzie Ward, Verree Teasdale, Dorothy Lee
Rating67% 3.3597453.3597453.3597453.3597453.359745
Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. The revue gets picked up and taken to New York City, to be on Broadway. However, it quickly folds, and the two are forced to look for other employment. They eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous.
Gang War
Gang War (1928)
, 1h10
Directed by Bert Glennon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Jack Pickford, Olive Borden, Mabel Albertson, Eddie Gribbon, Walter Long
Rating56% 2.814662.814662.814662.814662.81466
The film follows the saxophone player Clyde, who busks on the San Francisco Bay waterfront. One night, he meets Flowers, and teaches her to dance, but finds that "Blackjack" (Eddie Gribbon), the leader of a ruthless gang, is also in love with her. Despite the intense turf war between "Blackjack" and a rival gangster named Mike Luego (Walter Long), "Blackjack" wins the heart of Flowers and marries her, but without consummating the marriage. Clyde is eventually able to win "Blackjack" over however, and "Blackjack" sacrifices himself to protect Clyde and Flowers from Luego. Gang War was produced in black and white on Academy ratio 35 mm film, and was originally to be a silent film. However, a spoken prologue was added, in which a group of reporters (including one played by Mabel Albertson) discuss the events that are to come.

Scriptwriter

Second Wife, 1h4
Directed by Russell Mack
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Conrad Nagel, Lila Lee, Mary Carr
Rating51% 2.5826852.5826852.5826852.5826852.582685
Not long after the death of his first wife, Walter Fairchild becomes engaged to Florence Wendell. Florence ignores the warnings of Gilbert Gaylord, who is also interested in marrying her, that she doesn't know what she is getting herself into; that no woman will ever be able to fill the void in Fairchild's life left by the death of his wife. After they are married, Fairchild and Florence have some contention as she buys into the warnings given her by Gaylord. To appease her, they move out of the house he shared with his first wife, and allows her to furnish the new home. Sensing that he and his new wife need some time alone together to start their new lives, he sends his seven-year-old son, Walter Jr., to a boarding school in Switzerland. After Florence becomes pregnant, Fairchild is notified that is son is very ill, and will most likely not recover. Despite Florence's pleas for him not to leave her, he travels to his son's side. As he leaves, Florence tells him not to return.

Cameraman

Sergeant Rutledge, 1h51
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Films about racism
Actors Woody Strode, Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Billie Burke, Juano Hernández, Willis Bouchey
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73% 3.69493.69493.69493.69493.6949
The film revolves around the court-martial of 1st Sgt. Braxton Rutledge (Strode), a "Buffalo Soldier" of the 9th U.S. Cavalry. His defense is handled by Lt. Tom Cantrell (Hunter), Rutledge's troop officer. The story is told through a series of flashbacks, expanding the testimony of witnesses as they describe the events following the murder of Rutledge's Commanding Officer, Major Dabney, and the rape and murder of Dabney's daughter, for which Rutledge is the accused.
Davy Crockett and the River Pirates, 1h21
Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Children's films
Actors Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Jeff York, Kenneth Tobey, Clem Bevans, Mort Mills
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2951753.2951753.2951753.2951753.295175
Davy Crockett and George "Georgie" Russel are loaded with pelts as they make their way to the Mississippi River after a successful season of trapping and hunting in Kentucky. There they encounter Mike Fink, a blowhard keelboat captain who refuses to take them downriver, unless they pay a ridiculously high fee. That evening, Fink gets Georgie drunk and convinces him to keelboat race down the Mississippi with the season's pelts as wager.
Crime Wave
Crime Wave (1954)
, 1h13
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk, Ted de Corsia, Charles Bronson, Jay Novello
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.645413.645413.645413.645413.64541
'Doc' Penny (Ted de Corsia) and his gang rob a gasoline station and in the process a police officer is killed and one of the gang members is wounded. The wounded thug imposes himself on Steve Lacey (Gene Nelson), an ex-con trying to start a new life, and demands he call a disreputable doctor for help. The doctor arrives, but too late. The gang member is dead. After his death, Lacey calls his parole officer who involves a hard-nosed cop, Detective Lieutenant Sims (Sterling Hayden), who doesn't think he can reform.
Riding Shotgun, 1h13
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Wayne Morris (acteur britannique), Joan Weldon, Charles Bronson, Joe Sawyer
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.196143.196143.196143.196143.19614
Stagecoach guard Larry Delong is ambushed by a gang of outlaws associated with a man he's searching for, Dan Marady, who murdered Delong's sister and nephew. But when he returns to the town of Deep Water, nearly everyone there believes that Delong was involved in the holdup, in which the stage driver was killed.
The Mad Magician, 1h12
Directed by John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery, Patrick O'Neal, Donald Randolph
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.25133.25133.25133.25133.2513
Don Gallico (Vincent Price) is a magician, master of disguise, and inventor of stage-magic effects in the late 1800s aspiring to become a star magician under the stage name Gallico the Great. Disguised as The Great Rinaldi, a headlining rival magician, Mr. Gallico performs a number of magic tricks successfully, building up to the reveal of his latest invention, the buzz-saw, an illusion that "severs" the head of the magician's assistant Karen Lee (Mary Murphy). Before Mr. Gallico can perform the buzz-saw illusion, the curtains come down to stop the performance. Businessman Ross Ormond (Donald Randolph) and his lawyer serve Mr. Gallico a cease and desist order against the performance of the buzz-saw trick much to the anger of Mr. Gallico. Ms. Lee's boyfriend, police detective Lt. Alan Bruce (Patrick O'Neal), is asked by her to intervene in the dispute between Mr. Gallico and Mr. Ormond. Mr. Gallico informs the detective that he signed a contract to Mr. Ormond's Illusions, Inc., a magician's trick provider, to invent new tricks, the issue is that Mr. Ormond owns all work created by Mr. Ormond, not just the ones produced for Illusions, Inc., Mr. Gallico's understanding.
The Moonlighter, 1h17
Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Ward Bond, William Ching, John Dierkes, Morris Ankrum
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58% 2.902462.902462.902462.902462.90246
Wes Anderson has been "moonlighting," rustling cattle. A lynch mob led by rancher Alex Prince hangs the wrong man. Wes escapes.