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George Robinson is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 2 april 1890

George Robinson

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Birth name George Hiram Robinson
Nationality USA
Birth 2 april 1890
Death 30 august 1958 (at 68 years)

George Hiram Robinson, connu comme George Robinson, est un directeur de la photographie (membre de l'ASC), acteur, réalisateur et producteur américain, né le 2 avril 1890 à South Riverside dans le comté de San Bernardino en Californie, mort le 30 août 1958 à Los Angeles (Californie).

Biography

Au cinéma, George Robinson débute comme acteur, apparaissant dans dix courts métrages muets de 1912 à 1916, expérience non-renouvelée.

Puis, comme chef opérateur, il fait carrière principalement au sein d'Universal Pictures et contribue à cent-soixante quinze films américains (notamment dans les genres du film d'horreur et du western), entre 1921 et 1957.

Parmi ses films notables, citons Le Rayon invisible de Lambert Hillyer (1936, avec Boris Karloff et Béla Lugosi), Le Fils de Monte-Cristo de Rowland V. Lee (1940, avec Joan Bennett et Louis Hayward), Le Signe du cobra de Robert Siodmak (1944, avec Maria Montez et Jon Hall), ou encore Tarantula ! de Jack Arnold (1955, avec John Agar).

Fait particulier, il photographie le duo comique Abbott et Costello dans dix films, entre 1945 et 1956, dont Deux nigauds contre l'homme invisible de Charles Lamont (1951).

Toujours au cinéma, il est réalisateur et producteur de sept courts métrages musicaux, sortis de 1953 à 1958, année de sa mort.

Enfin, George Robinson est directeur de la photographie à la télévision, avec trois séries en 1952 et 1953. Principalement, il retrouve le duo comique pré-cité, sur vingt-six épisodes de la sitcom The Abbott and Costello Show .

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of George Robinson (98 films)

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Cameraman

The Night Runner, 1h19
Directed by Abner Biberman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Ray Danton, Colleen Miller, Merry Anders, Eddy Waller, Willis Bouchey, Bill Erwin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.9937152.9937152.9937152.9937152.993715
Roy Turner (Danton), a mental patient with a violent past, is prematurely released from the ward due to overcrowding. The doctors tell him to avoid stressful situations. Realizing that he can't handle the pressures of big-city life he moves into a beachside motel in a small coastal town. There he falls in love with Susan Mayes (Miller), the daughter of the motel's owner. But when her father discovers that he is a mental patient he threatens Turner to have him recommitted unless he leaves his daughter alone. Turner snaps momentarily, killing him, and he and Suisan flee down the beach. He tries to kill her by pushing her into the water, but comes to his senses and rescues her. He ends up turning himself in.
Francis in the Haunted House, 1h20
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Mickey Rooney, Paul Frees, David Janssen, Timothy Carey, James Flavin, Paul Cavanagh
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.8543552.8543552.8543552.8543552.854355
Francis witnesses a murder and then befriends bumbling reporter David Prescott (Mickey Rooney), who may be next in line. With Francis' help and guidance, Prescott uncovers a mystery involving murder, an inheritance, and a spooky old mansion on the edge of town.
The Kettles in the Ozarks, 1h21
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Marjorie Main, Arthur Hunnicutt, Una Merkel, Ted de Corsia, Richard Deacon, Dave O'Brien
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.194053.194053.194053.194053.19405
With Pa out of the way, Ma and the kids head out to help Pa's brother Sedgewick with the his farm in Mournful Hollow, Arkansas. Things get tighter when a couple of bootleggers rent Sedge's barn to manufacture moonshine. With Ma and the kids, the bootleggers get their pay.
Rock, Pretty Baby, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Sal Mineo, John Saxon, Luana Patten, Fay Wray, Edward Platt, George Winslow
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1813153.1813153.1813153.1813153.181315
Toy Tiger
Toy Tiger (1956)
, 1h28
Directed by Jerry Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jeff Chandler, Laraine Day, Timothy Hovey, Richard Haydn, Cecil Kellaway, Judson Pratt
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.188463.188463.188463.188463.18846
New York City advertising executive Gwen Harkinson is a widow with a son, Timmy, who lives full-time in an upstate boarding school. She sends art director Rick Todd in that direction to try to rehire Mike Wyman, a former creative talent for the ad agency who has given up that life to become a sculptor.
Gun for a Coward
Directed by Abner Biberman
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Dean Stockwell, Janice Rule, Chill Wills, Josephine Hutchinson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.99882.99882.99882.99882.9988
Will Keough is a rancher with two younger brothers, who are called Bless and Hade. They live with their widowed mother, Hannah, whose husband was bitten by a rattlesnake when Bless was a young boy. Ever since that day, Hannah has been determined to shield Bless from the hard life of the West and turn him instead into a refined, gentler soul. In so doing, she sometimes embarrasses Bless in front of the ranch's other men.
Dance With Me, Henry, 1h20
Directed by Charles Barton
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Gigi Perreau, Rusty Hamer, Mary Wickes, Ted de Corsia
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.8018552.8018552.8018552.8018552.801855
Lou Henry (Lou Costello) is the owner of Kiddyland, an amusement park, and Bud Flick (Bud Abbott) is his friend and partner. Together they share a home with two orphan children, Duffer (Rusty Hamer) and Shelly (Gigi Perreau). Welfare worker Miss Mayberry (Mary Wickes) does not think that their home is a suitable environment for the children and attempts to remove them. One of the reasons is that Bud is a gambler and owes $10,000 to Big Frank (Ted de Corsia), who offers to forget the debt if Bud agrees to help launder $200,000 that Big Frank took from a Chicago bank. Bud agrees to meet Big Frank's man, Mushie (Richard Reeves), at Kiddyland to pick up the money and a plane ticket. Lou, however, informs District Attorney Proctor (Robert Shayne) of the plan and he shows up at Kiddyland during Bud and Mushie's meeting. Mushie sees the DA and hides the money just before he murders Proctor and frames Lou for it. Miss Mayberry uses Lou's arrest as a reason to take the children from his home.
Gun for a Coward, 1h28
Directed by Abner Biberman
Genres Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Jeffrey Hunter, Janice Rule, Chill Wills, Dean Stockwell, Josephine Hutchinson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.99882.99882.99882.99882.9988
Will Keough est propriétaire d'un ranch avec ses deux petits frères, Bless et Hade. Ils vivent avec leur mère devenue veuve, Hannah. Leur père a été mordu par un serpent à sonnettes quand Bless était un jeune garçon. Depuis ce jour, Hannah est déterminée à protéger Bless de la vie dure de l'Ouest et son tournent.
Tarantula
Tarantula (1955)
, 1h16
Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Natural horror films, Films about spiders, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors John Agar, Leo G. Carroll, Mara Corday, Clint Eastwood, Nestor Paiva, Ross Elliott
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.2008353.2008353.2008353.2008353.200835
A man with Neanderthal features and wearing pajamas stumbles through the Arizona desert, falls and dies. Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar), a bright, handsome and sympathetic doctor from the small town of Desert Rock, is called to view the body. Asked to give an opinion as to cause of death, he finds himself perplexed. Surprised to learn the deceased was someone he knew – biological research scientist Eric Jacobs – Dr. Hastings suggests he be given permission to perform an autopsy to learn why the man's face is distorted beyond recognition. The sheriff refuses, judging an autopsy unnecessary as Jacobs' associate, Dr. Gerald Deemer (Leo G. Carroll), signed the death certificate and there is no indication of foul play.
The Square Jungle
Directed by Jerry Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Tony Curtis, Barney Phillips, Pat Crowley, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Kelly, Jim Backus
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.241273.241273.241273.241273.24127
Pat Quaid, an alcoholic San Francisco widower, ends up in jail. His grocery-clerk son, Eddie, needs $25 to bail him out. When he can't borrow it, Eddie enters an amateur fight contest and wins it.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, 1h19
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa, Comedy horror films, Buddy films
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Richard Deacon, Dan Seymour
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.0990953.0990953.0990953.0990953.099095
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are Americans who are stranded in Cairo, Egypt. They happen to overhear Dr. Gustav Zoomer (Kurt Katch) discussing the mummy Klaris, the guardian of the Tomb of Princess Ara. Apparently the mummy has a sacred medallion that shows where the treasure of Princess Ara can be found. The Followers of Klaris, led by Semu (Richard Deacon), overhear the conversation along with Madame Rontru (Marie Windsor), a businesswoman interested in stealing the treasure of Princess Ara.
Destry
Destry (1954)
, 1h35
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Western
Actors Mari Blanchard, Audie Murphy, Lyle Bettger, Thomas Mitchell, Lori Nelson, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2929253.2929253.2929253.2929253.292925
The sheriff of a small western town dies of a heart attack and the crooked mayor, The Honorable Hiram J. Sellers (Edgar Buchanan), and leading crook Phil Decker (Lyle Bettger) appoint the town drunk, Reginald T. "Rags" Barnaby (Thomas Mitchell), as the new sheriff, believing that he will be easily controlled by them. Rags, however, announces he is giving up drinking and refuses to accept Decker as his new deputy, telling them that he has someone else in mind: Tom Destry.
Black Horse Canyon, 1h21
Directed by Jesse Hibbs
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joel McCrea, Mari Blanchard, Murvyn Vye, Irving Bacon, John M. Pickard
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0488553.0488553.0488553.0488553.048855
En Arizona, un magnifique cheval noir nommé Bandit (Outlaw dans la version originale) redevenu sauvage erre dans les plaines et délivre les chevaux retenus dans les enclos. Del Rockwell accompagné du jeune Ti envisage de le capturer pour monter son élevage. Dans un ranch voisin, Doc Spain et sa nièce Aldis, qui a marqué Bandit lorsqu'il n'était qu'un poulain, revendiquent sa propriété. Enfin, un troisième éleveur, Jennings, dont un des hommes qui tentait d'immobiliser Bandit a été piétiné à mort, est prêt à tuer l'animal qu'il estime indomptable et dangereux. Le shérif donne une semaine à Aldis pour capturer et dresser Bandit, faute de quoi Jennings sera libre de mettre sa menace à exécution. Malgré son désir de réussir seule sa chasse, Aldis doit se faire assister par Del et Ti.
Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation, 1h16
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins, Barbara Brown, Sig Ruman, Ivan Triesault
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2948853.2948853.2948853.2948853.294885
Ma and Pa Kettle are invited, by their in-law counterparts, Jonathan and Elizabeth Parker,
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1h16
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films
Actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Eddie Parker, Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.198723.198723.198723.198723.19872
A rash of murders (by an unknown "monster") is plaguing London, and police are baffled. A newspaper reporter, Bruce Adams (Craig Stevens), finds one of the murder victims while coming home from a bar at night and calls the police. The next day, two American policemen, Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello), who are working for the London Police Force, respond to a mob fight at a Women's Suffrage Rally in Hyde Park. Reporter Adams, young suffragette Vicky Edwards (Helen Westcott), Slim, and Tubby, all get caught up in the fray and wind up in jail. Later, Vicky's guardian, Dr. Henry Jekyll (Boris Karloff), bails Vicky and Adams out. Tubby and Slim are thereafter kicked off the police force. Unknown to anyone, however, Dr. Jekyll has developed an injectable serum which transforms him into Mr. Hyde (the "monster" responsible for the recent murders). When Jekyll notices Vicky's and Bruce's mutual attraction, he has more thoughts of murder, injects himself, and transforms once again into Hyde (with the intent of murdering Adams).