George Barnes

Director Of Photography

About

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Also Known As

George S Barnes, George Scott Barnes, George S. Barnes

Birth Place

California, USA

Born

October 16, 1892

Died

May 30, 1953

Biography

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Shot his first feature in 1918 and went on to work with such illustrious directors as King Vidor, Henry King, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille. Barnes also served as a mentor to Gregg Toland, who went on to become one of Hollywood's finest cinematographers. Married to Joan Blondell from 1932 to 1936....

Filmography

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Hypnotized (1910)

Pocahontas (1910)

The Great Train Robbery (1903)

Crown Heights (2017)

Camera Operator

Kickboxing Academy (1999)

Camera Operator

Kickboxing Academy (1999)

Director Of Photography

Photos & Videos

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Sadie Thompson (1928) -- (Movie Clip) It's Bound To Be Worse Tomorrow

Black Legion (1936) — (Movie Clip) How’d You Like The Picture

Family & Companions

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Joan Blondell

Wife

Actor. Married in 1932; divorced in 1936.

Biography

Shot his first feature in 1918 and went on to work with such illustrious directors as King Vidor, Henry King, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille. Barnes also served as a mentor to Gregg Toland, who went on to become one of Hollywood's finest cinematographers. Married to Joan Blondell from 1932 to 1936.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Hypnotized (1910)

Pocahontas (1910)

The Great Train Robbery (1903)

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Crown Heights (2017)

Camera Operator

Kickboxing Academy (1999)

Camera Operator

Kickboxing Academy (1999)

Director Of Photography

Road to Bali (1953)

Director of Photography

Little Boy Lost (1953)

Director of Photography

The War of the Worlds (1953)

Director of Photography

Somebody Loves Me (1952)

Director of Photography

Something to Live For (1952)

Director of Photography

Just for You (1952)

Director of Photography

The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

Director of Photography

Here Comes the Groom (1951)

Director of Photography

Let's Dance (1950)

Director of Photography

Mr. Music (1950)

Director of Photography

The File on Thelma Jordon (1950)

Director of Photography

Samson and Delilah (1950)

Director of Photography

Riding High (1950)

Force of Evil (1949)

Director of Photography

Good Sam (1948)

Director of Photography

The Emperor Waltz (1948)

Director of Photography

The Boy with Green Hair (1948)

Director of Photography

No Minor Vices (1948)

Director of Photography

Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)

Director of Photography

Sinbad the Sailor (1947)

Director of Photography

From This Day Forward (1946)

Director of Photography

Sister Kenny (1946)

Director of Photography

Spellbound (1945)

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

Director of Photography

The Spanish Main (1945)

Director of Photography

Jane Eyre (1944)

Director of Photography

Since You Went Away (1944)

Frenchman's Creek (1944)

Director of Photography

None But the Lonely Heart (1944)

Director of Photography

Mr. Lucky (1943)

Director of Photography

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

Director of Photography

Broadway (1942)

Director of Photography

Nightmare (1942)

Director of Photography

Remember the Day (1942)

Director of Photography

Rings on Her Fingers (1942)

Director of Photography

Unholy Partners (1941)

Director of Photography

Hudson's Bay (1941)

Director of Photography

That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

Director of Photography

Meet John Doe (1941)

Director of Photography

Ladies in Retirement (1941)

The Girl from Avenue A (1940)

Director of Photography

Maryland (1940)

Parole Fixer (1940)

Director of Photography

Free, Blonde and 21 (1940)

Director of Photography

The Return of Frank James (1940)

Director of Photography

Second Fiddle (1939)

Our Neighbors--the Carters (1939)

Director of Photography

Devil's Island (1939)

Jesse James (1939)

Here I Am a Stranger (1939)

Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

The Beloved Brat (1938)

Hollywood Hotel (1938)

Music numbers Photographer by

Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)

Music numbers Photographer

Love, Honor and Behave (1938)

Varsity Show (1937)

Finale Photographer by

Black Legion (1937)

The Barrier (1937)

Ever Since Eve (1937)

Marked Woman (1937)

The Prince and the Pauper (1937)

Cain and Mabel (1936)

The Singing Kid (1936)

Love Begins at Twenty (1936)

The Irish in Us (1935)

I Live for Love (1935)

Broadway Gondolier (1935)

Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)

In Caliente (1935)

Traveling Saleslady (1935)

Stars over Broadway (1935)

He Was Her Man (1934)

Massacre (1934)

Gambling Lady (1934)

Kansas City Princess (1934)

Flirtation Walk (1934)

Peg O' My Heart (1933)

Goodbye Again (1933)

Footlight Parade (1933)

Havana Widows (1933)

Broadway Bad (1933)

The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932)

Society Girl (1932)

Blondie of the Follies (1932)

Sherlock Holmes (1932)

Polly of the Circus (1932)

Street Scene (1931)

One Heavenly Night (1931)

Five and Ten (1931)

The Unholy Garden (1931)

Director of Photography

A Lady's Morals (1930)

Director of Photography

What a Widow (1930)

Director of Photography

The Devil to Pay (1930)

Director of Photography

Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Director of Photography

The Rescue (1929)

Director of Photography

This Is Heaven (1929)

Director of Photography

The Trespasser (1929)

Director of Photography

Condemned (1929)

Director of Photography

Sadie Thompson (1928)

Director of Photography

The Awakening (1928)

Director of Photography

Our Dancing Daughters (1928)

Director of Photography

Two Lovers (1928)

Director of Photography

Venus of Venice (1927)

Director of Photography

The Night of Love (1927)

Director of Photography

The Magic Flame (1927)

Director of Photography

The Devil Dancer (1927)

Cinematog Camera

The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)

Director of Photography

The Son of the Sheik (1926)

Director of Photography

Mademoiselle Modiste (1926)

Director of Photography

The Dark Angel (1925)

Director of Photography

Zander The Great (1925)

Director of Photography

The Eagle (1925)

Director of Photography

The Teaser (1925)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Janice Meredith (1924)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Alice Adams (1923)

Director of Photography

The Love Piker (1923)

Director of Photography

Conquering the Woman (1922)

Director of Photography

Dusk to Dawn (1922)

Director of Photography

Peg o' My Heart (1922)

Director of Photography

The Real Adventure (1922)

Director of Photography

Woman, Wake Up (1922)

Director of Photography

The Beautiful Gambler (1921)

Director of Photography

The Bronze Bell (1921)

Director of Photography

The Heart Line (1921)

Director of Photography

Opened Shutters (1921)

Director of Photography

The False Road (1920)

Silk Hosiery (1920)

The Woman in the Suitcase (1920)

Hairpins (1920)

Her Husband's Friend (1920)

Dangerous Hours (1920)

The Law of Men (1919)

The Haunted Bedroom (1919)

What Every Woman Learns (1919)

The Virtuous Thief (1919)

Partners Three (1919)

Stepping Out (1919)

Vive La France! (1918)

Producer (Feature Film)

Kickboxing Academy (1999)

Beyond Desire (1996)

South Beach (1993)

Executive Producer

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Devil Danger (1927)

Film Production - Unit (Feature Film)

South Beach (1993)

Unit Manager Assistant

Life Events

1918

First film as director of photography, "The Biggest Show on Earth

1940

Won Oscar for work on "Rebecca"

Videos

Sadie Thompson (1928) -- (Movie Clip) It's Bound To Be Worse Tomorrow The quick pictorial introductions of the key characters, Lionel Barrymore and Blanche Frederici as the puritanical Davidsons, Charles Lane the more worldly MacPhail, then Gloria Swanson, the producer in the title role, in the first feature based on the provocative Somerset Maugham story, co-starring and directed by Raoul Walsh, Sadie Thompson, 1928.

Black Legion (1936) — (Movie Clip) How’d You Like The Picture Betty (Ann Sheridan) after the movies steamrolls factory worker Ed (Dick Foran) into the proposal for which she’s been angling, at the soda shop, Pat C. Flick the proprietor Nick, and Helen Flint as the brassy widow at the counter, in the progressive Warner Bros. melodrama Black Legion, 1937.

Black Legion (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Do I Have To Say This? Xenophobic factory worker Frank (Humphrey Bogart) hesitates a little, being sworn into his new anti-immigrant club, hooded Hargrave (Alonzo Price) officiating, in Warner Bros.' Black Legion, 1936.

Wet Parade, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) A Menacing Group Of Bluenose Puritans New York 1916, the presidential election looming, boozy hotelier "Pow" Tarleton (Walter Huston) speaks for Woodrow Wilson, as a less impressive campaigner (Clarence Wilson) supports Charles Evans Hughes, in Victor Fleming's The Wet Parade, 1932, from the Upton Sinclair novel.

Wet Parade, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Four Years More! Election day 1916, Southern author Roger (Neil Hamilton) arrives in New York, greeted by Democrats "Pow" Tarleton (Walter Huston), his son Kip (Robert Young) and newsman friend Jerry (Wallace Ford), when surprising news arrives from California, in The Wet Parade, 1932.

Wet Parade, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Just A Low Down Cowardly Drunkard Increasingly dissolute Southern patriarch Chilcote (Lewis Stone) resists when daughter Maggie (Dorothy Jordan) snatches him from the saloon, early in Victor Fleming's The Wet Parade, 1932, from an Upton Sinclair novel.

Marked Woman (1937) -- (Movie Clip) How Do You Entertain These Men? Prosecutor Graham (Humphrey Bogart) gets the I-D from night-club hostess Mary (Bette Davis), who's worried about what her kid sister (Jane Bryan) in the gallery will think, then defends her against the attorney (Raymond Hatton) for mobster Vanning (Eduardo Cianelli), in Marked Woman, 1937.

Marked Woman (1937) -- (Movie Clip) From Tiddlywinks To Roulette Gangster Johnny Vanning (Eduardo Cianelli), his character inspired by Charles "Lucky" Luciano, surveys the goods (including staff hostesses, Bette Davis as Mary, Lola Lane as Gabby, Isabel Jewell as Emmy Lou and Mayo Methot as Estelle) in the night club he's taken over, early in Marked Woman, 1937.

Marked Woman (1937) -- (Movie Clip) There's A Law In This State! Prosecutor Graham (Humphrey Bogart) in his first interview with night club hostess Mary (Bette Davis) who he knows can put away the gangster he's after, in Warner Bros.' Marked Woman, 1937.

War Of The Worlds, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) It's One Of Them! Librarian Sylvia (Ann Robinson) stays composed enough when assaulted by the alien in the basement, scientist Clayton (Gene Barry) wielding the axe, in George Pal's The War Of The Worlds, 1953.

War Of The Worlds, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I've Seen Enough At the American headquarters in Washington, the Secretary of Defense (Freeman Lusk) concludes it's time to nuke the Martians, in the 1953 George Pal production of H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds.

War Of The Worlds, The (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Super Science The 1953 George Pal production of H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds, getting modern right off the bat with ominous narration by Paul Frees and war footage covering 20th century events, script by Barrè Lyndon.

War Of The Worlds, The (1953) -- (Original Trailer) Trailer for the 1953 Technicolor box-office hit production of the H.G. Wells story, from Paramount and producer George Pal, The War Of The Worlds.

Irish in Us, The -- (Original Trailer) An' begorrah, why would we be runnin' a James Cagney-Pat O'Brien comedy, now? Blame it on The Irish in Us (1935).

Unholy Partners - (Original Trailer) The editor of a tabloid (Edward G. Robinson) takes money from a gangster in Unholy Partners (1941).

Greatest Show On Earth, The - (Original Trailer) Cecil B. DeMille won his one Academy Award® for Best Picture for the circus drama The Greatest Show On Earth (1952).

Goodbye Again (1933) - (Original Trailer) Warren William is a sexy author, Joan Blondell his long-suffering secretary in Goodbye Again (1933) a racy pre-code comedy.

Gambling Lady - (Original Trailer) Barbara Stanwyck is Lady Lee, Gambling Lady (1934), in love with accused murderer Joel McCrea.

Flirtation Walk - (Original Trailer) 42nd Street stars Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler head a musical salute to West Point in Flirtation Walk (1934).

File on Thelma Jordon, The - (Original Trailer) Barbara Stanwyck seduces a District Attorney and pulls him into a web of theft and murder in The File on Thelma Jordon (1950).

Massacre - (Original Trailer) A college-educated Sioux (Richard Barthelmess) goes to Washington to fight for his people's rights in Massacre (1934).

Broadway Gondolier - (Original Trailer) Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou cut up with Frank McHugh in the trailer for the "radio romance" Broadway Gondolier (1935).

Beloved Brat, The - (Original Trailer) A compassionate teacher (Dolores Costello) tries to reach a spoiled tomboy (Bonita Granville) in The Beloved Brat (1938).

Devil's Island - (Original Trailer) Boris Karloff in one of his rare sympathetic roles as a doctor unjustly accused of aiding traitors and sent to Devil's Island (1940).

Companions

Joan Blondell

Wife

Actor. Married in 1932; divorced in 1936.

Bibliography

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