Karl Struss

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1886-11-30 (95 years old)

Deathday

1981-12-16

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Karl Struss

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karl Struss, A.S.C. (November 30, 1886 – December 15, 1981) was an American photographer and a cinematographer of the 1900s through the 1950s. He was also one of the earliest pioneers of 3-D films. While he mostly worked on films, such as F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator and Limelight, he was also one of the cinematographers for the television series Broken Arrow and photographed 19 episodes of My Friend Flicka. In 1919, after his discharge from WWI, he moved to Los Angeles and signed on with Cecil B. DeMille as a cameraman, initially for the film For...

Production

1927

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

as Director of Photography

1940

The Great Dictator

as Director of Photography

1931

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Director of Photography

1932

Island of Lost Souls

as Director of Photography

1949

Siren of Atlantis

as Director of Photography

1943

Journey into Fear

as Director of Photography

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

as Director of Photography

1958

The Fly

as Director of Photography

1957

The Deerslayer

as Director of Photography

1952

Limelight

as Director of Photography

1950

Rocketship X-M

as Director of Photography

1950

It's a Small World

as Director of Photography

1954

Attila

as Camera Operator

1926

Hell's Four Hundred

as Director of Photography

1950

The Texan Meets Calamity Jane

as Director of Photography

1957

She Devil

as Director of Photography

1939

Island of Lost Men

as Director of Photography

1921

Fool's Paradise

as Director of Photography

1950

The Return of Jesse James

as Director of Photography

1949

Tarzan's Magic Fountain

as Director of Photography

1943

Riding High

as Director of Photography

1944

Rainbow Island

as Director of Photography

1932

Forgotten Commandments

as Director of Photography

1932

Dancers in the Dark

as Director of Photography

1954

Two Nights with Cleopatra

as Director of Photography

1947

The Macomber Affair

as Director of Photography

1941

Aloma of the South Seas

as Director of Photography

1930

Abraham Lincoln

as Director of Photography

1939

The Star Maker

as Director of Photography

1949

Call of the Forest

as Director of Photography

1932

Two Kinds of Women

as Director of Photography

1941

Caught in the Draft

as Director of Photography

1944

And the Angels Sing

as Director of Photography

1933

Torch Singer

as Director of Photography

1931

The Road to Reno

as Director of Photography

1946

Suspense

as Director of Photography

1949

Hello Out There

as Director of Photography

1936

The Preview Murder Mystery

as Director of Photography

1935

Two for Tonight

as Director of Photography

1952

Lady Possessed

as Director of Photography

1939

Zenobia

as Director of Photography

1939

Paris Honeymoon

as Director of Photography

1954

Poverty and Nobility

as Director of Photography

1930

The Bad One

as Director of Photography

1946

Tarzan and the Leopard Woman

as Director of Photography

1957

Kronos

as Director of Photography

1958

Machete

as Director of Photography

1934

Four Frightened People

as Director of Photography

1933

Tonight Is Ours

as Director of Photography

1932

The Sign of the Cross

as Director of Photography

1932

The Man from Yesterday

as Director of Photography

1959

The Alligator People

as Director of Photography

1920

Something to Think About

as Director of Photography

1951

Tarzan's Peril

as Director of Photography

1959

Counterplot

as Director of Photography

1952

Rose of Cimarron

as Director of Photography

1937

Every Day's a Holiday

as Director of Photography

1922

Minnie

as Director of Photography

1934

Here Is My Heart

as Director of Photography

1933

The Story of Temple Drake

as Director of Photography

1936

Hollywood Boulevard

as Director of Photography

1929

The Taming of the Shrew

as Director of Photography

1953

Neapolitan Turk

as Director of Photography

1953

Funniest Show on Earth

as Director of Photography

1948

The Dude Goes West

as Director of Photography

1938

Thanks for the Memory

as Director of Photography

1930

Be Yourself!

as Director of Photography

1953

Mesa of Lost Women

as Cinematography

1953

Domenica a Capri

as Director

1936

Anything Goes

as Director of Photography

1932

The World and the Flesh

as Director of Photography

1933

Disgraced!

as Director of Photography

1956

Mohawk

as Director of Photography

1936

Go West Young Man

as Director of Photography

1936

Too Many Parents

as Cinematography

1930

One Romantic Night

as Director of Photography

1935

Goin' to Town

as Director of Photography

1943

Happy Go Lucky

as Director of Photography

1922

1926

Sparrows

as Director of Photography

1931

Skippy

as Director of Photography

1928

The Battle of the Sexes

as Director of Photography

1928

Night Watch

as Director of Photography

1926

Forever After

as Director of Photography

1931

Up Pops the Devil

as Director of Photography

1933

The Woman Accused

as Director of Photography

1923

Poor Men's Wives

as Director of Photography

1931

Danger Lights

as Director of Photography

1945

Bring on the Girls

as Director of Photography

1930

Lummox

as Director of Photography

1929

Coquette

as Director of Photography

1927

Babe Comes Home

as Director of Photography

1936

Let's Make a Million

as Director of Photography

1937

Mountain Music

as Director of Photography

1938

Sing, You Sinners

as Cinematography

1934

Belle of the Nineties

as Cinematography

1923

Mothers-in-Law

as Director of Photography

1935

Mississippi

as Director of Photography

1922

Saturday Night

as Director of Photography

1952

Tarzan's Savage Fury

as Director of Photography

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