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L. William O'Connell is a Director of Photography, Editor and Cinematography American born on 31 july 1890
Lewis William O'Connell — né le 31 juillet 1890 à Chicago (Illinois), mort en février 1985 à Pinopolis (Caroline du Sud) — est un directeur de la photographie américain, généralement crédité L. William O'Connell ou L. W. O'Connell.
Entretemps, il contribue à cent-soixante-dix huit autres films américains (produits notamment par la Warner Bros.), dont La Victoire mutilée de King Vidor (1923, avec Clara Kimball Young et John Bowers), L'Insoumise (1928, avec Charles Farrell et Greta Nissen) et Scarface (1932, avec Paul Muni et Ann Dvorak) d'Howard Hawks, À l'est de Shanghaï de John Farrow (1937, avec Boris Karloff et Beverly Roberts), ou encore One Mysterious Night d'Oscar Boetticher (1944, avec Chester Morris et Janis Carter).
S'ajoute un téléfilm diffusé en 1950.
(1928)
(Director of Photography)
(1931)
(Still Photographer)
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Birth name Lewis William O'Connell
Nationality USA
Birth 31 july 1890
Death 1 february 1985 (at 94 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 31 july 1890
Death 1 february 1985 (at 94 years)
Biography
Son premier film comme chef opérateur est Missing de James Young (avec Thomas Meighan et Sylvia Breamer), sorti en 1918. Le dernier est un court métrage de 1952.Entretemps, il contribue à cent-soixante-dix huit autres films américains (produits notamment par la Warner Bros.), dont La Victoire mutilée de King Vidor (1923, avec Clara Kimball Young et John Bowers), L'Insoumise (1928, avec Charles Farrell et Greta Nissen) et Scarface (1932, avec Paul Muni et Ann Dvorak) d'Howard Hawks, À l'est de Shanghaï de John Farrow (1937, avec Boris Karloff et Beverly Roberts), ou encore One Mysterious Night d'Oscar Boetticher (1944, avec Chester Morris et Janis Carter).
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Assigned to Danger (1948)
, 1h6Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Gene Raymond, Robert Bice, Noreen Nash, Martin Kosleck, Ralf Harolde, Gene Evans
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Frankie Mantell's gang pulls an $80,000 payroll stickup in Los Angeles. But getaway driver Nip Powers is killed and Frankie shot and wounded.
Repeat Performance (1947)
, 1h31Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Noir, Crime
Themes Time travel films
Actors Joan Leslie, Louis Hayward, Virginia Field, Tom Conway, Richard Basehart, John Ireland
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
On New Year's Eve 1946, a woman is standing over her dead husband with a gun in her hand. She panics and goes to her friends for help. While seeking help from her friends at a pair of parties, she wishes that she could live 1946 all over again.
Lost Honeymoon (1947)
, 1h11Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Franchot Tone, Ann Richards, Tom Conway, Frances Rafferty, Clarence Kolb, Una O'Connor
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
Soon after the end of World War II a young English woman, Amy Atkins (Ann Richards), goes back to the London flat where she and her best friend, Tillie Grey, once used to live. The housekeeper Mrs. Tubbs (Una O'Connor) meets Amy and reveals to her that Tillie went ill right before she was off to America to look for the man she married during the war. Tillie died from her illness before she could make her journey, and left two orphaned twin children, Joyce and Johnny Jr. To honor her old friend and make her husband honour his obligations Amy decides to make the journey that Tillie had planned and complete task of finding her husband, Johnny. Amy modifies Tillie's new passport and travels to America by boat on the ticket Tillie had bought, posing as her best friend.
Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947)
, 1h6Directed by Edward F. Cline
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joe Yule, Renie Riano, Wanda McKay, Herbert Evans, Jimmy Aubrey, Richard Irving
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Irish-American matriarch Maggie attempts to gain her family entry into New York's High Society.
Decoy (1946)
, 1h16Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Jean Gillie, Robert Armstrong, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard, Philip Van Zandt
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
The story picks up in Margot Shelby's apartment, as she is dying from a gunshot wound. Police detective Joe Portugal arrives at the scene to hear her last moments and possible confession. Margot recounts all the events that lead to Dr. Lloyd Craig shooting her shortly after arriving at her apartment. Via flash-back, we travel back to the beginning:
Decoy (1946)
, 1h16Directed by Jack Bernhard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley, Sheldon Leonard, Philip Van Zandt
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
Le cambrioleur Frank Olins (Robert Armstrong) purge une longue peine de prison après avoir organisé un casse fructueux. Il refuse de révéler à quiconque où se cache son butin. Quand son exécution est ordonnée, sa compagne, la femme fatale Margot Shelby (Jean Gillie), entreprend son évasion. Elle corrompt le docteur Craig (Herbert Rudley) pour l’aider dans sa tâche et demande au malfrat Jim Vincent (Edward Norris) de financer son plan. Mais de loin, le policier Portugal (Sheldon Leonard) surveille ce petit monde ...
The Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)
, 1h10Directed by William Castle
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Warner Baxter, John Litel, Dusty Anderson, Miles Mander, John Abbott, Arthur Aylesworth
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
In this entry Coulter Irwin plays a returning World War II veteran with a few problems: psychological problems that include blackouts, a dominating mother, and a beautiful girlfriend who turns up murdered. The police are quick to pin the killing on him, but the Crime Doctor (Warner Baxter) is not so sure.
The Monster and the Ape (1945)
Directed by Howard Bretherton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Crime
Actors Robert Lowery, George Macready, Ralph Morgan, Carole Mathews, Willie Best, Jack Ingram
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
The Monster of the title is the "Metalogen Man", a robot created by Professor Franklin Arnold. After displaying his invention, the robot is stolen by Professor Ernst with the aid of his trained ape, Thor. Ken Morgan leads the attempts to recover the stolen robot.
The Power of the Whistler (1945)
, 1h6Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell, Tala Birell, John Abbott, Nina Mae McKinney
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Dix plays an amnesiac who learns about his name and past through the help of amateur fortune teller Jean Lang (Janis Carter).
Cry of the Werewolf (1944)
, 1h3Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film
Actors Nina Foch, Osa Massen, Blanche Yurka, Barton MacLane, Ivan Triesault, John Abbott
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53%
A Romany princess descended from Marie LaTour has the ability to change into a wolf at will, just like her late mother. When she learns that Marie LaTour's tomb has been discovered, she decides to use her talent to kill everyone who knows the location, because it is a sacred secret that only her people are allowed to know.
One Mysterious Night (1944)
, 1h1Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Janis Carter, Richard Lane, William Wright, George E. Stone, Mark Roberts
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
The Blue Star of the Nile is stolen from an exhibition guarded by the police under Inspector Farraday. Under intense pressure from the police commissioner to recover the diamond, Farraday tells reporters, among them Dorothy Anderson, that he is sure Boston Blackie is responsible. However, he does not really believe that; it is only a ruse. When Blackie walks into Farraday's office, the inspector is so desperate he deputizes his old nemesis to get the jewel back, using his own methods.
The Missing Juror (1944)
, 1h6Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors Jim Bannon, Janis Carter, George Macready, Joseph Crehan, Carole Mathews, Edmund F. Cobb
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Un détective essaye de stopper l'assassinat des différents jurés d'un procès pour meurtre.
, 1h5Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chester Morris, Richard Lane, Ann Savage, George E. Stone, Lloyd Corrigan, Cy Kendall
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
When "Diamond" Ed Barnaby (an uncredited Walter Baldwin) is paroled, he sets out to give $100,000 worth of diamonds to his daughter, Betty (Ann Savage). Aware that several shady characters know he has the jewels, he stashes them in a safe deposit box in the Arcade Building. Betty later receives a call asking her to meet him there, but he never shows up. She contacts her father's only real friend: Horatio Black, better known as Boston Blackie. He agrees to help and drops Betty off at the apartment of his wealthy friend, Arthur Manleder (Lloyd Corrigan), for safekeeping. His sidekick, "the Runt" (George E. Stone), has to postpone his wedding to statuesque bubble dancer Dixy Rose Blossom.
The Return of the Vampire (1943)
, 1h9Directed by Lew Landers
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film
Actors Bela Lugosi, Frieda Inescort, Nina Foch, Miles Mander, Roland Varno, William Austin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
The film begins with Sir Fredrick Fleet (Miles Mander): The following events are taken from the notes of Professor Walter Saunders of King’s College, Oxford...
Rubber Racketeers (1942)
, 1h7Directed by Harold Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ricardo Cortez, Rochelle Hudson, Barbara Read, John Abbott, William Henry, Dewey Robinson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
A man (Ricardo Cortez) recently released from prison gets involved with the black market in synthetic rubber during wartime. The synthetic rubber is blamed for several people being killed in car accidents due to blowouts.