Gordon Jennings

Personal Info

Know For

Crew

Gender

Male

Birthday

1896-06-25 (57 years old)

Deathday

1953-01-11

Place of Birth

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Gordon Jennings

Biography

Gordon Jennings, A.S.C. (1896 – January 11, 1953) was an American special effects artist. He received seven Academy Awards (mainly for Best Special Effects) and was nominated for eight more in the same category. After starting in 1919 in Hollywood as a camera assistant, he worked from 1932 until 1953 on the visual and special effects of more than 180 films. His older brother was cinematographer Devereaux Jennings (1884-1952), who filmed, for instance, Buster Keaton's monumental The General in 1926. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Jennings, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

1923

Our Hospitality

as Director of Photography

1945

The Lost Weekend

as Visual Effects

1952

Just for You

as Special Effects

1940

The Mad Doctor

as Special Effects

1944

Going My Way

as Special Effects

1947

California

as Visual Effects

1946

Road to Utopia

as Special Effects

1947

Road to Rio

as Special Effects

1942

Road to Morocco

as Special Effects

1953

Little Boy Lost

as Special Effects

1949

The Great Lover

as Special Effects

1952

Off Limits

as Special Effects

1951

My Favorite Spy

as Special Effects

1950

Fancy Pants

as Special Effects

1949

Sorrowful Jones

as Special Effects

1933

King of the Jungle

as Special Effects

1947

My Favorite Brunette

as Special Effects

1946

Monsieur Beaucaire

as Special Effects

1947

Where There's Life

as Special Effects

1948

The Paleface

as Special Effects

1946

The Virginian

as Visual Effects

1950

No Man of Her Own

as Special Effects

1948

A Foreign Affair

as Special Effects

1943

No Time for Love

as Visual Effects

1952

The Turning Point

as Special Effects

1947

Saigon

as Visual Effects

1949

The Great Gatsby

as Special Effects

1952

Son of Paleface

as Special Effects

1948

Whispering Smith

as Visual Effects

1946

Calcutta

as Visual Effects

1949

The Accused

as Visual Effects

1945

A Medal for Benny

as Special Effects

1940

North West Mounted Police

as Visual Effects

1946

The Bride Wore Boots

as Visual Effects

1921

The Blot

as Director of Photography

1935

Peter Ibbetson

as Visual Effects

1943

China

as Visual Effects

1942

This Gun for Hire

as Special Effects

1953

Shane

as Visual Effects

1947

My Favorite Brunette

as Visual Effects

1937

Make Way for Tomorrow

as Visual Effects

1943

For Whom the Bell Tolls

as Special Effects

1949

The Heiress

as Visual Effects

1951

Here Comes the Groom

as Special Effects

1951

A Place in the Sun

as Special Effects

1950

The Furies

as Visual Effects

1937

Wells Fargo

as Special Effects

1952

My Son John

as Visual Effects

1944

1948

Hazard

as Visual Effects

1945

Bring on the Girls

as Visual Effects

1945

Bring on the Girls

as Matte Painter

1939

Union Pacific

as Special Effects

1949

The File on Thelma Jordon

as Special Effects

1948

The Sainted Sisters

as Visual Effects

1943

So Proudly We Hail

as Special Effects

1945

Murder, He Says

as Visual Effects

1942

I Married a Witch

as Special Effects

1943

So Proudly We Hail

as Visual Effects

1950

Sunset Boulevard

as Visual Effects

1938

If I Were King

as Visual Effects

1953

Stalag 17

as Special Effects

1939

Rulers of the Sea

as Visual Effects

1947

Unconquered

as Visual Effects Director

1942

Reap the Wild Wind

as Visual Effects

1948

Sorry, Wrong Number

as Special Effects

1953

The War of the Worlds

as Visual Effects

1945

Kitty

as Visual Effects

1937

Artists & Models

as Special Effects

1953

Scared Stiff

as Special Effects

1951

The Stooge

as Special Effects

1952

Sailor Beware

as Special Effects

1950

My Friend Irma Goes West

as Special Effects

1952

Jumping Jacks

as Special Effects

1949

My Friend Irma

as Special Effects

1953

Here Come the Girls

as Special Effects

1953

Road to Bali

as Special Effects

1947

California

as Special Effects

1936

The General Died at Dawn

as Visual Effects

1934

Death Takes a Holiday

as Visual Effects

1938

If I Were King

as Special Effects

1933

Three Cornered Moon

as Visual Effects

1948

The Big Clock

as Special Effects

1953

Come Back, Little Sheba

as Visual Effects

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