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Henry W. Gerrard is a Actor, Director of Photography and Cinematography Canadien born on 3 january 1899
Henry W. Gerrard (parfois crédité Henry Gerrard) , né vers 1894 au Canada, mort le 19 novembre 1934, est un directeur de la photographie canadien.
En particulier, il assiste le réalisateur William A. Wellman sur six films (certains perdus), dont Les Mendiants de la vie (1928, avec Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen et Wallace Beery). Parmi ses autres films notables, mentionnons Les Chasses du comte Zaroff d'Ernest B. Schoedsack et Irving Pichel (1932, avec Joel McCrea, Fay Wray et Leslie Banks), Les Quatre Filles du docteur March de George Cukor (1933, avec Katharine Hepburn et Joan Bennett), ou encore L'Emprise de John Cromwell (1934, avec Leslie Howard et Bette Davis).
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Installé aux États-Unis, Henry W. Gerrard débute comme chef opérateur sur Ali Baba et les Quarante Voleurs, film muet de la Fox réalisé par les frères Sidney et Chester M. Franklin, sorti en 1918. Puis il exerce régulièrement à ce poste de 1927 à 1934, au sein de la Paramount jusqu'en 1931, à la RKO ensuite. En tout, il contribue à trente-six films américains, dont trois westerns (ex. : L'Attaque de la caravane en 1931, avec Gary Cooper et Lili Damita). Il collabore aussi à deux films britanniques, sortis respectivement en 1931 et 1932.En particulier, il assiste le réalisateur William A. Wellman sur six films (certains perdus), dont Les Mendiants de la vie (1928, avec Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen et Wallace Beery). Parmi ses autres films notables, mentionnons Les Chasses du comte Zaroff d'Ernest B. Schoedsack et Irving Pichel (1932, avec Joel McCrea, Fay Wray et Leslie Banks), Les Quatre Filles du docteur March de George Cukor (1933, avec Katharine Hepburn et Joan Bennett), ou encore L'Emprise de John Cromwell (1934, avec Leslie Howard et Bette Davis).
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Tabusse (1949)
, 1h35Directed by Jean Gehret
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Rellys, Paulette Andrieux, Marcel Lévesque, Yvonne Yma, Robert Seller, Jane Morlet
Dans les Cévennes, Tabusse est une figure du village. Coléreux et mais aussi amoureux, il traverse de nombreuses péripéties.
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The Fountain (1934)
, 1h23Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Ann Harding, Jean Hersholt, Brian Aherne, Paul Lukas, Ralph Forbes, Violet Kemble-Cooper
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Success at Any Price (1934)
Directed by J. Walter Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Genevieve Tobin, Colleen Moore, Frank Morgan, Edward Everett Horton, Nydia Westman
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Joe, an amoral capitalist and boyfriend of Sarah Griswold, gets a job as a clerk in a New York City advertising agency and starts to work his way to the top. He is fired, but Sarah intervenes on his behalf and he manages to create an ad that earns him a promotion. He meets the mistress of his boss and decides he wants to win her from him. The company is in trouble, but Joe has invested wisely and sells out his boss to his competitor. He abandons Sarah and proposes to the mistress, who marries him. Joe becomes head of his agency, but because he neglects his new wife, she becomes the mistress of another man. He attempts suicide, but Sarah rescues him and nurses him back to health.
Of Human Bondage (1934)
, 1h23Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Frances Dee, Kay Johnson, Reginald Denny, Reginald Owen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
Sensitive, club-footed artist Philip Carey is a Briton who has been studying painting in Paris for four years. His art teacher tells him his work lacks talent, so he returns to London to become a medical doctor, but his moodiness and chronic self-doubt make it difficult for him to keep up in his schoolwork.
The Little Minister (1934)
, 1h50Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, John Beal, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp, Lumsden Hare, Andy Clyde
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Set in rural 1840s Scotland, the plot focuses on labor and class issues while telling the story of Gavin Dishart, a staid cleric newly assigned to Thrums' Auld Licht church, and Babbie, a member of the nobility who disguises herself as a gypsy girl in order to interact freely with the local villagers and protect them from her guardian, Lord Rintoul, who wants to keep them under his control. Initially the conservative Dishart is appalled by the feisty girl, but he soon comes to appreciate her inner goodness. Their romantic liaison scandalizes the townspeople, and the minister's position is jeopardized until Babbie's true identity is revealed.
Man of Two Worlds (1934)
Directed by J. Walter Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Francis Lederer, Elissa Landi, Henry Stephenson, J. Farrell MacDonald, Walter Byron, Forrester Harvey
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Little Women (1933)
, 1h57Directed by John Lodge, George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about families, Political films, Children's films
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Jean Parker, Frances Dee, Douglass Montgomery, Edna May Oliver
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Set in Concord, Massachusetts, during and after the American Civil War, the film is a series of vignettes focusing on the struggles and adventures of the four March sisters and their mother, affectionately known as Marmee (Spring Byington), while they await the return of their father, who serves as a colonel and a chaplain in the Union Army. Spirited tomboy Jo (Katharine Hepburn), who caters to the whims of their well-to-do Aunt March (Edna May Oliver), dreams of becoming a famous author, and she writes plays for her sisters to perform for the local children. Amy (Joan Bennett) is pretty but selfish, Meg (Frances Dee) works as a seamstress, and sensitive Beth (Jean Parker) practices on her clavichord, an aging instrument sorely in need of tuning.
Blind Adventure (1933)
, 1h5Directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack
Origin USA
Actors Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Ralph Bellamy, Roland Young, John Miljan, Laura Hope Crews
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
, 1h3Directed by Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Serial killer films, Road movies, Chase films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson, Hale Hamilton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
In 1932, a luxury yacht is sailing through a channel off the western coast of South America. The captain is worried about the channel lights not matching the charts, but is quickly dissuaded from changing course by the wealthy passengers for the sake of time, including famous big game hunter and author Bob Rainsford (Joel McCrea). It is a calm evening, with the cheerful passengers relaxing over drinks and a game of cards. Bob and his companions are debating about whether hunting is at all sporting for the animal being hunted after a friend asks if he would exchange places with a tiger he had recently hunted in Africa. Bob replies that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who hunt and those who are hunted.
Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
, 1h10Directed by George Archainbaud
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Donald Cook, Mae Clarke, Edgar Kennedy
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
Gwen Parker (Mae Clarke) meets her former boyfriend Philip Seymour (Donald Cook) at the local aquarium and asks him for some money so she can leave her husband, stockbroker Gerald Parker. However, Mr. Parker receives an anonymous telephone call tipping him off to the rendezvous. When he confronts the pair, Seymour knocks him out with a punch. As there are no witnesses to the altercation, he hides the unconscious man in the room behind an exhibit.
Two White Arms (1932)
Directed by Fred Niblo
Genres Comedy
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Claud Allister, Jane Baxter, Kenneth Kove, Rene Ray, Jean Cadell
Roles Director of Photography
The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)
, 1h16Directed by J. Walter Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Anita Louise, Bess Flowers, H. B. Warner
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Ricardo Cortez as Gary Curtis (alias Farnsbarns who is known for being a PI that skirts the law in New York) is sent to get some letters from Karen Morley as Jenny Wren (who is a courtisan). Jenny Wren tells H. B. Warner as Priam Andes to have some of her former lovers come to a gathering at Crestwood. Jenny Wren at the gathering tells her former lovers that she is leaving but wants money from all of them, she explains that a boy she was trifling with committed suicide. Later that night Jenny Wren is killed. A road washed out keeps everyone at Crestwood. Now Gary Curtis must find out who the murder is before the police arrive and pin it on him.
Fighting Caravans (1931)
, 1h32Directed by Otto Brower, David Burton
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Fred Kohler, Eugene Pallette
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson (Ernest Torrence) and Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice (Lili Damita) into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married her the previous night. Clint is released so he can accompany Felice on the wagon train heading west to California.
Many Waters (1931)
Directed by Milton Rosmer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lillian Hall-Davis, Arthur Margetson, Elizabeth Allan, Donald Calthrop, Mary Clare, Robert Douglas
Roles Director of Photography
Dude Ranch (1931)
, 1h11Directed by Frank Tuttle
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green, June Collyer, Charles Sellon
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%