Merritt B. Gerstad

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1900-07-05 (74 years old)

Deathday

1974-03-01

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Merritt B. Gerstad

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Merritt B. Gerstad (5 July 1900, Chicago, Illinois – 1 March 1974, Laguna Beach, California) was an American cinematographer of silent and early sound films. After beginning as a cinematographer on films for Universal, he worked for MGM, working with director Tod Browning on (the lost) London After Midnight (1927) and Freaks (1932), and Sam Wood on the Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera (1935). Later he was at Warner Bros. for Watch on the Rhine (1943) starring Bette Davis, Conflict (1945) with Humphrey Bogart in the lead, and the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), his last credit.

Production

1932

Freaks

as Director of Photography

1930

Call of the Flesh

as Director of Photography

1932

Payment Deferred

as Director of Photography

1940

The House Across the Bay

as Director of Photography

1937

She Married an Artist

as Director of Photography

1941

Tom, Dick and Harry

as Director of Photography

1927

The Unknown

as Director of Photography

1932

Night World

as Director of Photography

1929

Devil-May-Care

as Director of Photography

1932

Strange Justice

as Director of Photography

1929

Navy Blues

as Director of Photography

1931

The Great Lover

as Director of Photography

1945

Conflict

as Director of Photography

1934

Social Register

as Director of Photography

1933

The Secret of Madame Blanche

as Director of Photography

1936

Strike Me Pink

as Director of Photography

1929

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

as Director of Photography

1930

A Lady to Love

as Director of Photography

1930

Remote Control

as Director of Photography

1931

Flying High

as Director of Photography

1930

Our Blushing Brides

as Director of Photography

1933

Only Yesterday

as Director of Photography

1929

The Thirteenth Chair

as Director of Photography

1937

Seventh Heaven

as Director of Photography

1931

Gentleman's Fate

as Cinematography

1945

Rhapsody in Blue

as Additional Photography

1935

A Night at the Opera

as Director of Photography

1934

Imitation of Life

as Director of Photography

1936

The Magnificent Brute

as Director of Photography

1935

The Daring Young Man

as Cinematography

1943

Watch on the Rhine

as Director of Photography

1930

Every Woman's Longing

as Director of Photography

1936

The Great Ziegfeld

as Director of Photography

1929

A Man's Man

as Director of Photography

1927

Mockery

as Director of Photography

1934

Beloved

as Director of Photography

1931

Guilty Hands

as Director of Photography

1930

Those Three French Girls

as Director of Photography

1939

Slightly Honorable

as Director of Photography

1939

Winter Carnival

as Director of Photography

1933

Goldie Gets Along

as Director of Photography

1929

Tide of Empire

as Cinematography

1937

Souls at Sea

as Director of Photography

1939

Eternally Yours

as Director of Photography

1927

London After Midnight

as Director of Photography

1926

The Ice Flood

as Director of Photography

1939

Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police

as Director of Photography

1942

Night in New Orleans

as Director of Photography

1936

One Rainy Afternoon

as Director of Photography

1924

The Phantom Horseman

as Cinematography

1931

Never the Twain Shall Meet

as Director of Photography

1931

Daybreak

as Director of Photography

1933

The Mayor of Hell

as Director of Photography

1924

The Man from Wyoming

as Director of Photography

1936

The Luckiest Girl in the World

as Director of Photography

1925

The Mad Whirl

as Director of Photography

1931

West of Broadway

as Director of Photography

1925

Tessie

as Cinematography

1929

Wonder of Women

as Director of Photography

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