Henry Sharp

Director Of Photography

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Also Known As

Henry Schacht, Harry Sharp, Henry T. Sharp

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Died

January 10, 1964

Biography

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Leading cinematographer of the 1920s who lent his expertise to such major silent films as King Vidor's "The Crowd" (1928) and a number of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., vehicles. Sharp's career leveled off with the advent of sound although he worked on a number of fine films, notably Alan Dwan's "The Iron Mask" (1929) and Fritz Lang's "Ministry of Fear" (1944), he worked mainly in TV from the 1...

Filmography

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The Violators (1957)

David Baumgarden

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Mask of the Avenger (1951)

A Song to Remember (1945)

Till We Meet Again (1944)

The Very Thought of You (1944)

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It's A Gift (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Your Uncle Bean

It's A Gift (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I Want Ten Pounds Of Cumquats

Biography

Leading cinematographer of the 1920s who lent his expertise to such major silent films as King Vidor's "The Crowd" (1928) and a number of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., vehicles. Sharp's career leveled off with the advent of sound although he worked on a number of fine films, notably Alan Dwan's "The Iron Mask" (1929) and Fritz Lang's "Ministry of Fear" (1944), he worked mainly in TV from the 1950s.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Violators (1957)

David Baumgarden

A Face in the Crowd (1957)

Mask of the Avenger (1951)

A Song to Remember (1945)

Till We Meet Again (1944)

The Very Thought of You (1944)

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Young Land (1959)

Director of Photography

The Lawton Story (1949)

Cinecolor Photographer

Daughter of the West (1949)

Perilous Waters (1948)

Director of Photography

Strike It Rich (1948)

Director of Photography

High Tide (1947)

Director of Photography

Violence (1947)

Director of Photography

It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)

Director of Photography

The Guilty (1947)

Director of Photography

The Glass Alibi (1946)

The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)

The Woman Who Came Back (1945)

What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945)

Director of Photography

Jealousy (1945)

Tomorrow, the World! (1944)

Director of Photography

Crime by Night (1944)

Director of Photography

The Man in Half Moon Street (1944)

Director of Photography

Ministry of Fear (1944)

Director of Photography

The National Barn Dance (1944)

Director of Photography

The Mysterious Doctor (1943)

Director of Photography

The Hidden Hand (1942)

Director of Photography

Henry Aldrich, Editor (1942)

Director of Photography

Adventure in Washington (1941)

Director of Photography

Our Wife (1941)

Broadway Limited (1941)

Director of Photography

The Way of All Flesh (1940)

Director of Photography

Geronimo (1940)

Golden Gloves (1940)

Director of Photography

Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Director of Photography

Boy Trouble (1939)

Sudden Money (1939)

His Exciting Night (1938)

Director of Photography

Campus Confessions (1938)

Illegal Traffic (1938)

Scandal Street (1938)

Hotel Haywire (1937)

Wild Money (1937)

Blonde Trouble (1937)

This Way Please (1937)

Murder Goes to College (1937)

Partners in Crime (1937)

Hold 'Em Navy! (1937)

Early to Bed (1936)

Rose Bowl (1936)

Lady Be Careful (1936)

The Accusing Finger (1936)

Our Little Girl (1935)

Cameraman for added scenes

All the King's Horses (1935)

The Glass Key (1935)

It's a Gift (1934)

Six of a Kind (1934)

Here Comes the Groom (1934)

Many Happy Returns (1934)

The Lemon Drop Kid (1934)

Ladies Should Listen (1934)

Melody in Spring (1934)

Song of the Eagle (1933)

Duck Soup (1933)

From Hell to Heaven (1933)

Alice in Wonderland (1933)

This Reckless Age (1932)

Madison Sq. Garden (1932)

Cinematographer

The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932)

The Devil Is Driving (1932)

The Man Called Back (1932)

Madame Racketeer (1932)

70,000 Witnesses (1932)

The Broken Wing (1932)

Strangers in Love (1932)

The False Madonna (1931)

The Lion and the Lamb (1931)

Mordprozess Mary Dugan (1931)

Photographerraphie [Photographer]

Around the World in Eighty Minutes with Douglas Fairbanks (1931)

Fotografiada por [Photographer]

Way Out West (1930)

Director of Photography

Love in the Rough (1930)

Director of Photography

Sins of the Children (1930)

Director of Photography

Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)

Director of Photography

The Iron Mask (1929)

Director of Photography

Speedway (1929)

Director of Photography

Where East Is East (1929)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Brotherly Love (1928)

Director of Photography

While the City Sleeps (1928)

Director of Photography

Diamond Handcuffs (1928)

Director of Photography

The Crowd (1928)

The Big City (1928)

Director of Photography

The Lovelorn (1927)

Director of Photography

Slide, Kelly, Slide (1927)

Director of Photography

The Boy Friend (1926)

Director of Photography

The Black Pirate (1926)

Director of Photography

Enticement (1925)

Director of Photography

Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925)

Director of Photography

A Girl of the Limberlost (1924)

Director of Photography

Judgment of the Storm (1924)

Director of Photography

Barbara Frietchie (1924)

Director of Photography

Tiger Thompson (1924)

Director of Photography

The Marriage Cheat (1924)

Director of Photography

Christine of the Hungry Heart (1924)

Director of Photography

Dynamite Smith (1924)

Director of Photography

The Mirage (1924)

Director of Photography

Anna Christie (1923)

Director of Photography

Human Wreckage (1923)

Director of Photography

What a Wife Learned (1923)

Director of Photography

Soul of the Beast (1923)

Director of Photography

The Sunshine Trail (1923)

Director of Photography

The Third Alarm (1923)

The Hottentot (1922)

Director of Photography

Lorna Doone (1922)

Director of Photography

Lying Lips (1921)

Director of Photography

Beau Revel (1921)

Director of Photography

Hail the Woman (1921)

Director of Photography

Mother o' Mine (1921)

Director of Photography

Homespun Folks (1920)

Cast (Special)

The Great Waltz (1955)

Johann Strauss Sr

Cast (Short)

Trial by Trigger (1944)

Cinematography (Short)

Hazard House (1952)

Director Of Photography

To My Unborn Son (1943)

Director Of Photography

INFLATION (1943)

Cinematographer

Life Events

1915

Entered film as lab technician

1920

First film "Homespun Folks"

Videos

It's A Gift (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Your Uncle Bean It's actually big news arriving, as Bissonette (W.C. Fields) attempts to share the bathroom with his daughter Mildred (Jean Rouverol) while he's shaving, in Paramount's It's A Gift, 1934.

It's A Gift (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I Want Ten Pounds Of Cumquats The second source of frustration in the life of New Jersey grocer Bissonette (W.C. Fields), where he has incompetent help (Tammany Young), a customer seeking cumquats (Morgan Wallace) and another who’s blind (Charles Sellon), in It’s A Gift, 1934, co-written by Fields as “Charles Bogle.”

It's A Gift (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Sleigh Bells Just a portion of the epic back-porch sequence, as Bissonette (W.C. Fields) carries on his battle to get some sleep, in It's A Gift, 1934.

Crowd, The (1928) -- (Movie Clip) Hospital Panicky John (James Murray) amid exaggerated sets for the birth of his first child with Mary (Eleanor Boardman) madonna-like, in King Vidor's silent everyman epic The Crowd, 1928.

Face in the Crowd, A (1957) -- (Movie Clip) Cold Fish Respectable Girls Marcia (Patricia Neal), discoverer of radio phenom Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith), introduces a Memphis agent (Henry Sharp), then follows him through a broadcast, a gag on her station-manager father, and an on-air negotiation, in Elia Kazan's A Face In The Crowd, 1957.

Ministry Of Fear (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Getting About In The Dark In provincial wartime England, on the evening of his release an asylum, having won a cake at a carnival, wrongly-sentenced Neale (Ray Milland) meets a blind man (Eustace Wyatt) on the train to London, in Fritz Lang's Ministry Of Fear, 1944, from a Graham Greene novel.

Ministry Of Fear (1944) -- (Movie Clip) To Watch The Last Minute Fritz Lang's spooky opening, with a clock, in an asylum, with hero Ray Milland (as "Neale") and Lester Matthews as his doctor, from Ministry Of Fear, 1944, from a Graham Greene novel.

Alice In Wonderland (1933) -- (Movie Clip) In Order Of Appearance The unique opening credit sequence, remarkable in many ways including the presentation of the only cast ever to feature both Gary Cooper and Cary Grant, from the Paramount 1933 version of Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland, starring Charlotte Henry, co-written by designer William Cameron Menzies.

Alice In Wonderland (1933) -- (Movie Clip) Everything Is Backward A key technical sequence, Charlotte Henry (title character) through the looking glass, special effects credited to Gordon Jennings and Farciot Edouart, Colin Kenny playing the clock, in Paramount's Alice In Wonderland, 1933, directed by Norman Z. McLeod.

Black Pirate, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Even On This Dark Soil Writer, producer and star Douglas Fairbanks doesn’t appear in the opening, as we join the prologue, pirates looting a taken ship, with general and specific callous acts of murder, Anders Randolf their captain, in the third feature made with two-strip Technicolor, from United Artists, The Black Pirate, 1926.

Black Pirate, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) I Would Join Your Company! The pirates (Anders Randolf the leader, Donald Crisp their second) who took the ship on which he traveled have appeared on the island where survivor Douglas Fairbanks (the co-writer, producer and star) has just buried, and sworn to avenge, his father, launching his infiltration scheme, in The Black Pirate, 1926.

Black Pirate, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Single-Handed Undertaking a test he proposed, in order to gain membership to the pirate band that murdered his father, Douglas Fairbanks (title character) begins the work of taking the “next ship you pick” single-handed, with some famous stunts, in The Black Pirate, 1926.

Duck Soup - (Original Trailer) In Duck Soup (1933), their masterpiece and one of the greatest comedies of all time, The Marx Brothers take over the tiny nation of Freedonia.

Face in the Crowd, A - (Original Trailer) Television turns a folk-singing drifter (Andy Griffith) into a media celebrity in Elia Kazan's A Face in the Crowd (1957).

Alice in Wonderland (1933) - (Original Trailer) A trip through the looking glass and down a rabbit hole sends an English girl into a world of fantastic characters and strange potions in Alice in Wonderland (1933).

What Next, Corporal Hargrove? - (Original Trailer) A bumbling soldier and his scheming friend take France by storm in What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945) starring Robert Walker.

Ministry Of Fear - (Original Trailer) Ray Milland gets the microfilm and into a lot of trouble in Fritz Lang's Ministry Of Fear (1944), based on the Graham Greene novel.

Mysterious Doctor, The - (Original Trailer) Nazi agents use a headless ghost as a front in the thriller The Mysterious Doctor (1943) starring Eleanor Parker.

Very Thought of You, The - (Original Trailer) For the wartime romance The Very Thought Of You (1944), director Delmar Daves shot on location at Cal Tech and the San Diego Navy Yards.

Crime by Night - (Original Trailer) Married detectives investigating a small-town murder uncover a spy ring in Crime by Night (1944) starring Jane Wyman.

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