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John Arnold is a Actor, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 16 november 1889 at New York City (USA)

John Arnold

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Birth name John Charles Arnold
Nationality USA
Birth 16 november 1889 at New York City (USA)
Death 11 january 1964 (at 74 years) at Palm Springs (USA)

John (Charles) Arnold, né le 16 novembre 1889 à New York (État de New York), mort le 11 janvier 1964 à Palm Springs (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain, membre de l'ASC.

Biography

John Arnold débute comme chef opérateur en 1914 et, à ce titre, contribue à quatre-vingt-six films muets américains jusqu'en 1928. Cinquante-quatre d'entre eux, de 1915 à 1924, ont pour vedette Viola Dana (le dernier est Along Came Ruth d'Edward F. Cline, avec Tully Marshall).

Les deux seuls films parlants (musicaux) dont il dirige les prises de vues sont Broadway Melody (avec Anita Page et Bessie Love) de Harry Beaumont et Hollywood chante et danse de Charles Reisner, tous deux sortis en 1929.

De 1917 jusqu'à la fin de sa carrière, John Arnold travaille au sein de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (la Metro Pictures Corporation avant 1924). De 1931 à 1956 (année où il se retire), il y exerce exclusivement des responsabilités au département caméra (déjà à partir de 1925), dans le choix des équipements et des chefs opérateurs, pour l'ensemble des productions du studio.

Parmi ses autres films notables comme directeur de la photographie, mentionnons La Grande Parade (1925, avec John Gilbert et Renée Adorée) et Mirages (1928, avec Marion Davies et William Haines), tous deux réalisés par King Vidor, La Morsure de Tod Browning (1927, à nouveau avec le couple Gilbert-Adorée), ou encore Le Vent de Victor Sjöström (1928, avec Lillian Gish et Lars Hanson).

Membre de l'American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), John Arnold en est le président de 1931 à 1937, puis de 1939 à 1941.

Best films

The Broadway Melody (1929)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

King Vidor
King Vidor
(3 films)
Viola Dana
Viola Dana
(7 films)
Marion Davies
Marion Davies
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Arnold (26 films)

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Actor

9 Month Stretch, 1h17
Directed by Albert Dupontel
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Pregnancy films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Sandrine Kiberlain, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Uchan, Nicolas Marié, Bouli Lanners, Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus
Roles Avocat lavabo
Rating64% 3.2019353.2019353.2019353.2019353.201935
Ariane Felder is pregnant. This is all the more surprising since this examining magistrate is an old-fashioned single person. But even more surprising is the fact that, according to DNA tests, the father is no other than Bob, a criminal prosecuted for atrocious assault and battery. Ariane, who does not remember anything, tries to understand what happened.

Cameraman

The Broadway Melody, 1h50
Directed by Harry Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Charles King, Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, Jed Prouty, James Gleason
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55% 2.797652.797652.797652.797652.79765
The plot involves the romances of musical comedy stars, set against the backstage hubbub of a Broadway revue. Anita Page and Bessie Love play a vaudeville sister act who have come to New York for their big break on Broadway. Charles King plays the song-and-dance man whose affection for one sister (Harriet alias Hank) is supplanted by his growing love for the younger, more beautiful sister (Queenie). Queenie tries to protect her sister and derail the love triangle by dating a wealthy but unscrupulous "stage door Johnny."
The Hollywood Revue of 1929, 1h56
Directed by Charles Reisner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films
Actors Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Anita Page, Marie Dressler
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58% 2.9002852.9002852.9002852.9002852.900285
Avec l'arrivée du cinéma parlant et les prémices du Technicolor les grandes compagnies cinématographiques hollywoodiennes décidèrent de mettre en chantier ce que l'on n'appelait pas encore "superproduction". De fait il s'agissait de réunir dans un même film l'ensemble des acteurs composant leurs écuries respectives. Ainsi la Warner Bros. fit-elle réaliser son The Show of Shows tandis que de son côté La Métro sortait Hollywood chante et danse rassemblant ses comédiens parmi lesquels naturellement Stan Laurel et Oliver Hardy. Pas de scénario dans ce fil qui est composé d'une succession de numéros musicaux pour lesquels les acteurs furent invités à faire un peu le contraire de ce qu'ils faisaient d'habitude à l'écran. Laurel et Hardy s'en tirent plutôt bien en jouant les présentateurs magiciens.
The Garden of Eden, 1h19
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Maude George, Charles Ray, Edward Martindel
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.385313.385313.385313.385313.38531
A Viennese ingénue named Toni LeBrun, Corinne Griffith, is determined not to be content in her current life, staying with her aunt and uncle and working in their pretzel bakery. The young girl earns a correspondence course degree as an opera singer and dreams of fame on the stage. She decides to leave her small town life, traveling to Budapest to answer an ad from the Palais de Paris. However, the ad was a sham, a way to get girls for cheap stage shows and more, for its wealthier clientele.
Show People, 1h23
Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about television
Actors William Haines, Marion Davies, Dell Henderson, Polly Moran, Tenen Holtz, Harry Gribbon
Roles Director of Photography
Rating75% 3.794253.794253.794253.794253.79425
Young Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) wants to be in motion pictures, so her father (Dell Henderson) drives her across the country from their home in Georgia to Hollywood. After some initial disillusionment, she meets Billy Boone (William Haines) in a studio commissary; he tells her to show up at his set if she wants work. Peggy goes, gets sprayed with seltzer water at her first entrance, and is at first shocked and dismayed to find she is doing slapstick comedy in low-budget "Comet" productions, but she decides to "take it on the chin" and, with Billy's loving support, becomes a success.
The Wind
The Wind (1928)
, 1h35
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Edward Earle, William Orlamond
Roles Director of Photography
Rating79% 3.9941953.9941953.9941953.9941953.994195
An impoverished young woman named Letty (Lillian Gish) travels west by train from Virginia to live at her cousin Beverly's isolated ranch in Sweet Water. On the way, she is bothered by the constantly blowing wind. Fellow passenger and cattle buyer Wirt Roddy (Montagu Love) makes her acquaintance and tells her the wind usually drives women crazy.
Detectives
Detectives (1928)

Directed by Chester M. Franklin, Chester Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Karl Dane, George K. Arthur, Marceline Day, Tenen Holtz
Roles Director of Photography
Rating76% 3.807853.807853.807853.807853.80785
The Cardboard Lover, 1h11
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes La provence, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Marion Davies, Nils Asther, Pepi Lederer, Jetta Goudal, Andres de Segurola, Tenen Holtz
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.2466653.2466653.2466653.2466653.246665
Sally, une chasseuse d'autographes américaine, voyage en Europe avec ses camarades de classe. Elle jette son dévolu sur André, un champion de tennis français. Elle découvre que l'amie d'André, Simone, n'est pas honnête ; et André, qui est malheureusement épris d'elle, engage Sally pour le tenir à l'écart de Simone. Sally s'occupe du couple et ne leur laisse jamais un instant de paix, emménageant finalement dans la maison d'André afin de convaincre Simone qu'André en a fini avec elle. André finit par aimer cette américaine excentrique et l'épouse.
Mr. Wu
Mr. Wu (1927)
, 1h30
Directed by William Nigh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lon Chaney, Louise Dresser, Renée Adorée, Holmes Herbert, Ralph Forbes, Gertrude Olmstead
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.189083.189083.189083.189083.18908
In the prologue, Chaney plays Grandfather Wu, entrusting his grandson's education to a trusted English associate, stating "The West is coming to the East. He [my heir] must be prepared for both." Chaney also plays the part of the grandson as a young man who enters an arranged marriage with a delicate girl who dies after giving birth to a daughter. Wu swears he will raise the child as a daughter and a son.
The Show
The Show (1927)
, 1h6
Directed by Tod Browning
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Circus films
Actors John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Connelly, Polly Moran, Gertrude Short
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68% 3.438143.438143.438143.438143.43814
Cock Robin (John Gilbert) is a sideshow barker in Budapest. He also participates in one of the acts; his former girlfriend Salome (Renée Adorée) dances before Herod in exchange for the head of "Jokanaan". As Jokanaan, Robin has his head seemingly chopped off and presented to the dancer on a platter, much to the delight of the audience.
The Understanding Heart, 1h7
Directed by Jack Conway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Joan Crawford, Francis X. Bushman, Jr., Rockliffe Fellowes, Carmel Myers, Richard Carle, Harvey Clark
Roles Director of Photography
Rating28% 1.406291.406291.406291.406291.40629
Forest ranger Bob Mason (Fellowes) kills a man in self-defense. Kelcey Dale (Carmel Myers), to whom Bob is attracted, commits perjury and causes him to be convicted for murder. Bob escapes and is sheltered by Kelcey's sister, Monica Dale (Crawford).
Dance Madness, 1h10
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Claire Windsor, Conrad Nagel, Hedda Hopper, Pauline Starke
Roles Director of Photography

May (Claire Windsor) is married to Roger, an alcoholic hell-raiser (Conrad Nagel). During one of their riotous parties, she tests his fidelity by impersonating a notorious masked dancer (Hedda Hopper) and trying to seduce him.
The Big Parade, 2h21
Directed by King Vidor, George William Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell, Claire Adams, Karl Dane
Roles Director of Photography
Rating78% 3.9457453.9457453.9457453.9457453.945745
In the United States in 1917, James "Jim" Apperson's (John Gilbert) idleness (in contrast to his hardworking brother) incurs the great displeasure of his wealthy businessman father. Then America enters World War I. Jim informs his worried mother that he has no intention of enlisting, and his father threatens to kick him out of the house if he does not join. However, when he runs into his patriotic friends at a send-off parade, he is persuaded to enlist, making his father very proud.
Proud Flesh, 1h10
Directed by King Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Eleanor Boardman, Patrick H. O'Malley Jr., Harrison Ford, Trixie Friganza, Sōjin Kamiyama, George Nichols
Roles Director of Photography
Rating51% 2.577322.577322.577322.577322.57732
A San Francisco earthquake orphan is adopted by relatives in Spain and gets wooed by a Romeo there. She turns him down to return to a San Francisco plumber.
Sally, Irene and Mary, 58minutes
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, Sally O'Neil, William Haines, Henry Kolker, Kate Price
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.8108252.8108252.8108252.8108252.810825
The film takes a behind-the-scenes look at the romantic lives of three chorus girls and the way their preferences in men affect their lives. Sally is brassy, self-assured chorine in search of a sugar daddy. Irene is a romantic girl easily seduced by con men. Whereas Mary is the true heroine of the story, leaving the sordidness behind to settle down