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Ernest Palmer is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 6 december 1885 at Kansas City (USA)
Ernest G. Palmer (born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 6, 1885; died in Pacific Palisades, California, February 22, 1978) was a Hollywood cinematographer for more than 160 films. His earliest known credit was for a 1912 adaptation of Ivanhoe.
In 1941, Palmer won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography (in collaboration with Ray Rennahan) for Blood and Sand. Palmer was nominated on several other occasions—in 1928 for Four Devils, in 1929 for Street Angel, and in 1950 for Broken Arrow.
Palmer a obtenu l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie (en collaboration avec Ray Rennahan) pour Arènes sanglantes en 1941. Il fut nommé en plusieurs autres occasions - en 1928 pour Les Quatre Diables, en 1929 pour L'Ange de la rue et en 1950 pour La Flèche brisée.
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(1927)
(Director of Photography)
(1928)
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(1941)
(Director of Photography)
(1938)
(Director of Photography)
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Nationality USA
Birth 6 december 1885 at Kansas City (USA)
Death 22 february 1978 (at 92 years) at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Birth 6 december 1885 at Kansas City (USA)
Death 22 february 1978 (at 92 years) at Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography
In 1941, Palmer won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography (in collaboration with Ray Rennahan) for Blood and Sand. Palmer was nominated on several other occasions—in 1928 for Four Devils, in 1929 for Street Angel, and in 1950 for Broken Arrow.
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Ernest Palmer a participé à plus de 160 films dont le plus ancien est une adaptation de Ivanhoé en 1912.Palmer a obtenu l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie (en collaboration avec Ray Rennahan) pour Arènes sanglantes en 1941. Il fut nommé en plusieurs autres occasions - en 1928 pour Les Quatre Diables, en 1929 pour L'Ange de la rue et en 1950 pour La Flèche brisée.
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(1927)(Director of Photography)
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Broken Arrow (1950)
, 1h28Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, Debra Paget, Will Geer, Arthur Hunnicutt, Iron Eyes Cody
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Tom Jeffords (James Stewart) comes across a wounded, 14-year-old Apache boy dying from buckshot wounds in his back. Jeffords gives the boy water and heals his wounds. The boy's tribesmen appear and are at first hostile, but decide to let Jeffords go free. However, a group of gold prospectors happens by, and the Apache gag Jeffords and tie him to a tree. Helpless, he watches as they attack the prospectors and torture the survivors. The warriors then let him go but warn him not to enter Apache territory again.
Bait (1950)
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors John Bentley, Patricia Owens, Willoughby Wittenham Rees Goddard
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48%
This British mystery concerns a gang of four jewel thieves, led by Diana Napier, who steal two highly valuable diamonds out of a set of earrings. Napier sells them to a dishonest businessman (Willoughby Goddard) at his country estate, but the gang plans to return later and steal them back. However, Goddard's long-lost half-brother (John Benley) suddenly returns to the estate accompanied by his new fiancée (Patricia Owens). Bentley wants to claim his half of the inheritance, but soon discovers that his half-brother has squandered the family fortune and is now engaged in buying and selling stolen gems. He confronts Goddard, who panics, and hits Bentley over the head with a poker. As he is about to strike a death blow, a shot rings out and Goddard falls dead. The police arrest Bentley for the murder but soon have to release him for lack of evidence. Meanwhile, Patricia Owens tries to find the real killer by playing up to one of the members of the gang, who happens to be an old boyfriend of hers.
The Three Weird Sisters (1948)
, 1h22Directed by Daniel Birt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Nancy Price, Mary Clare, Mary Merrall, Raymond Lovell, Nova Pilbeam, Elwyn Brook-Jones
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
The elderly Morgan-Vaughan sisters Gertrude (Price), Maude (Clare) and Isobel (Merrall) live in a decaying and claustrophobic mansion in a Welsh mining village. Gertrude is blind, Maude almost deaf and Isobel crippled by arthritis. The local coal mine out of which the family made their fortune is almost worked-out and its tunnels and shafts are dangerously unstable. When a section of the underground workings collapses catastrophically, destroying a row of local cottages and unsettling the foundations of the mansion, the sisters feel honour-bound to finance repairs but have no capital with which to do so.
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
, 1h35Directed by F. Hugh Herbert
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Anne Revere, Natalie Wood, Robert Karnes
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
Farmer Milt Dominy (Henry Hull) and his son Daniel (Lon McCallister), who is called "Snug", commiserate with each other about their loathing of Judith (Anne Revere), Milt's second wife, and her brutish son Stretch (Robert Karnes). Milt decides to return to the sea while Snug takes a job as a hired hand with a neighboring farmer, Robert "Roarer" McGill (Tom Tully), with whose daughter, Rad (June Haver), he is in love, although the daughter gets her kicks out of keeping him guessing about her true feelings. Her father neither encourages nor endorses the courtship.
The Trial of Madame X (1948)
, 54minutesOrigin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Hamilton Deane
Roles Director of Photography
A woman is thrown out of her home by her jealous husband and sinks into depravity. Twenty years later, she finds herself accused of murder for saving her son, who does not know who she is. He finds himself defending her without knowing her background.
Centennial Summer (1946)
, 1h42Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, William Eythe, Constance Bennett
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
The movie is about two sisters growing up in Philadelphia in the 1870s. They both fall for a Frenchman who has to prepare the pavilion for the Centennial exposition.
29 Acacia Avenue (1945)
, 1h23Directed by Henry Cass
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Gordon Harker, Betty Balfour, Jimmy Hanley, Henry Kendall, Carla Lehmann, Dinah Sheridan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
Peter Robinson falls in love with the naïve country girl Fay and the worldly, wealthy and already-married Joan, and lives with them both (and Joan's husband) at his parents' house. However, one day Peter's parents unexpectedly return from holiday, and all hell breaks loose.
Pin Up Girl (1944)
, 1h24Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, John Harvey, John Harvey, Martha Raye, Joe E. Brown, Eugene Pallette
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Lorry Jones (Betty Grable) is working as a hostess at the local USO canteen in "Missoula, Missouri," where she performs as a singer and signs photographs of herself for adoring soldiers.
Sweet Rosie O'Grady (1943)
, 1h14Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, Robert Young, Adolphe Menjou, Reginald Gardiner, Virginia Grey, Sig Ruman
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Song of the Islands (1942)
, 1h16Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell, George Barbier, Hilo Hattie
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Jeff Harper sails to the tropical paradise Ahmi-Oni with his sidekick Rusty. He is there on behalf of his father to bargain for land with Dennis O'Brien. Jeff however falls in love with O'Brien's daughter Eileen and it is then up to Jeff's father to go to the island and try to break them up. A task easier said than done because Jeff's father also falls under the spell of the beautiful splendor of the islands.
Thunder Birds (1942)
, 1h18Directed by William A. Wellman, Phil Rosen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Gene Tierney, Preston Foster, John Sutton, Jack Holt, Reginald Denny, May Whitty
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Soon after the US enters World War II, Steve Britt (Preston Foster), a former World War I flying ace, arrives at Thunderbird Field, looking for a job as a civilian primary flight instructor. The base commander is an old friend, Lt. Col. "Mac" MacDonald (Jack Holt), working with Squadron Leader Barrett (Reginald Denny, himself a WWI aerial observer), who is in charge of the Royal Air Force cadets at the base.
Go to Blazes (1942)
, 9minutesDirected by Walter Forde
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Will Hay, Dame Thora Hird, Muriel George
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
When an incendiary bomb strikes his house during the Blitz, Hay fusses so ineptly with his extinguishing equipment that the bomb burns through the floor - and obligingly falls into a bucket of water in the basement. When a second bomb strikes, his daughter shows him how to do the job properly.
The Goose Steps Out (1942)
, 1h19Directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Will Hay, Frank Pettingell, Charles Hawtrey, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Ustinov, Barry Morse
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Set during the Second World War, The Goose Steps Out recounts the adventures of William Potts (Will Hay) after it is discovered that he is an exact double of a German spy who the British have just captured. Potts is flown into Nazi Germany to impersonate the spy and instructed to seek out and bring back details of a new German secret weapon.
Blood and Sand (1941)
, 2h5Directed by Budd Boetticher, Rouben Mamoulian, Robert D. Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Bullfighting films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Rita Hayworth, Alla Nazimova, Anthony Quinn, J. Carrol Naish
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
As a child Juan Gallardo (Rex Downing – young boy) wants only to become a bullfighter like his dead father. One night he has an argument with the pompous critic Natalio Curro (Laird Cregar) about his father's lack of talent in the bullring. The argument spurs Juan to travel to Madrid and achieve his dreams of success in the bullring. Before leaving he promises his aristocratic sweetheart Carmen Espinosa (Linda Darnell) he will return when he is a success and marry her.
Belle Starr (1941)
, 1h27Directed by Irving Cummings
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Gene Tierney, Randolph Scott, Dana Andrews, Shepperd Strudwick, Elizabeth Patterson, Chill Wills
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr (Randolph Scott), Belle Shirley (Gene Tierney) vows to take revenge. Breaking Starr out of prison, she joins his small guerrilla group for a series of raids on banks and railroads, carpetbaggers and enemy troops. Belle's bravado during the attacks earns her a reputation among the locals as well as the love of Starr himself. The pair get married, but their relationship starts to break down when Sam Starr lets a couple of psychotic rebels into the gang, leaving Belle to wonder if he really cares about the Southern cause.