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Karl Struss, A.S.C. (November 30, 1886 β 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 Better, For Worse starring Gloria Swanson, followed by another Swanson film Male and Female and leading to a two-year contract with the studio In early 1921, he married Ethel Wall, who helped to support him in his photographic work independent of the film studios, which included pictorial views set in California In the 1920s, Struss worked on such films as Ben-Hur and F. W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. In 1927, he contracted with United Artists, where he worked with D. W. Griffith on such films as Drums of Love and also filmed Mary Pickford's first talking film Coquette. He continued his experimental work with camera technology, developing the "Lupe Light" and a new bracket system for the Bell & Howell camera.
From 1931 through 1945, Struss worked as a cameraman for Paramount, where he worked on a variety of material including films featuring Mae West, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour Struss also aimed to shape the field through publishing; for example, in 1934 he authored "Photographic Modernism and the Cinematographer" for American Cinematographer. Struss was later admitted to the American Society of Cinematographers, and was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts. In 1949, while working as a freelancer, he began his work in "stereo cinematography", becoming one of the first proponents of that art form. Unfortunately, he did most of his 3D film work in Italy and none of his films were subsequently released in 3D in the United States.
Struss's photographic archive of exhibition prints, film stills, negatives and papers (3 linear feet of materials) is available at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art located in Fort Worth, Texas.
Filmography
all 116
Movies 116
Director 32
Counterplot (1959)
The Alligator People (1959)
The Rebel Set (1959)
Here Come the Jets (1959)
Machete (1958)
The Hot Angel (1958)
The Fly (1958)
The Rawhide Trail (1958)
The Deerslayer (1957)
She Devil (1957)
Kronos (1957)
Mohawk (1956)
Attila (1954)
Poverty and Nobility (1954)
Two Nights with Cleopatra (1954)
Funniest Show on Earth (1953)
Neapolitan Turk (1953)
Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
Domenica a Capri (1953)
Limelight (1952)
Rose of Cimarron (1952)
Lady Possessed (1952)
Tarzan's Peril (1951)
Father's Wild Game (1950)
The Texan Meets Calamity Jane (1950)
The Return of Jesse James (1950)
It's a Small World (1950)
Rocketship X-M (1950)
Call of the Forest (1949)
Bad Boy (1949)
Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Siren of Atlantis (1949)
Hello Out There (1949)
The Dude Goes West (1948)
The Macomber Affair (1947)
Mr. Ace (1946)
Suspense (1946)
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
Bring on the Girls (1945)
Rainbow Island (1944)
And the Angels Sing (1944)
Riding High (1943)
Journey into Fear (1943)
Aloma of the South Seas (1941)
Caught in the Draft (1941)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Star Maker (1939)
Island of Lost Men (1939)
Some Like It Hot (1939)
Zenobia (1939)
Paris Honeymoon (1939)
Thanks for the Memory (1938)
Sing, You Sinners (1938)
Every Day's a Holiday (1937)
Thunder Trail (1937)
Mountain Music (1937)
Go West Young Man (1936)
Let's Make a Million (1936)
Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
Too Many Parents (1936)
The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
Two for Tonight (1935)
Goin' to Town (1935)
Here Is My Heart (1934)
Belle of the Nineties (1934)
Four Frightened People (1934)
Torch Singer (1933)
Disgraced! (1933)
The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
The Woman Accused (1933)
Tonight Is Ours (1933)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Guilty as Hell (1932)
The Man from Yesterday (1932)
Forgotten Commandments (1932)
The World and the Flesh (1932)
Dancers in the Dark (1932)
Two Kinds of Women (1932)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
The Road to Reno (1931)
Murder by the Clock (1931)
Up Pops the Devil (1931)
Skippy (1931)
Kiki (1931)
Danger Lights (1930)
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Zampa (1930)
The Bad One (1930)
One Romantic Night (1930)
Be Yourself! (1930)
Lummox (1930)
The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
Coquette (1929)
The Battle of the Sexes (1928)
Night Watch (1928)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Babe Comes Home (1927)
Forever After (1926)
Sparrows (1926)
Hell's Four Hundred (1926)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
The Winding Stair (1925)
White Man (1924)
Poisoned Paradise (1924)
Maytime (1923)
Poor Men's Wives (1923)
Thorns and Orange Blossoms (1922)
Minnie (1922)
Fools First (1922)
Saturday Night (1922)
Law and the Woman (1922)
Fool's Paradise (1921)
The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Forbidden Fruit (1921)
Something to Think About (1920)
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Known ForCamera
GenderMale
Birthday1886-11-30
Deathday1981-12-15 (95 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsCarlo Struss, Karl O. Struss
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Cinematography
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