Arthur Edeson

Director Of Photography

About

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Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

October 24, 1891

Died

February 14, 1970

Biography

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Former actor and portrait photographer who began a highly influential cinematographic career in 1914. Edeson shot many of Douglas Fairbanks' adventures from 1917 through the following decade and showed off his command of the moving camera in the early sound film "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930). After memorable collaborations with director James Whale at Universal on such horror c...

Filmography

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The Master Hand (1915)

Assistant Director

The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)

Two Guys from Texas (1948)

Director of Photography

Stallion Road (1947)

Director of Photography

My Wild Irish Rose (1947)

Director of Photography

The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)

Director of Photography

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Maltese Falcon, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) I Like To Talk

Maltese Falcon, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Such A Considerable Expense

Biography

Former actor and portrait photographer who began a highly influential cinematographic career in 1914. Edeson shot many of Douglas Fairbanks' adventures from 1917 through the following decade and showed off his command of the moving camera in the early sound film "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930). After memorable collaborations with director James Whale at Universal on such horror classics as "Frankenstein" (1931), "The Old Dark House" (1932) and "The Invisible Man" (1933), he made a significant contribution to the output of Warner Bros. from 1936 to 1947, photographing such classics as "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) and "Casablanca" (1942), before retiring in 1949.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The Master Hand (1915)

Assistant Director

Cinematography (Feature Film)

The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)

Two Guys from Texas (1948)

Director of Photography

Stallion Road (1947)

Director of Photography

My Wild Irish Rose (1947)

Director of Photography

The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)

Director of Photography

Nobody Lives Forever (1946)

Director of Photography

Three Strangers (1946)

Director of Photography

Never Say Goodbye (1946)

Director of Photography

Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)

Director of Photography

Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)

Director of Photography

The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)

Director of Photography

The Conspirators (1944)

Director of Photography

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Director of Photography

Casablanca (1942)

Director of Photography

Across the Pacific (1942)

Director of Photography

The Male Animal (1942)

Director of Photography

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Director of Photography

Sergeant York (1941)

Battle seq Photographer

Kisses for Breakfast (1941)

Director of Photography

Castle on the Hudson (1940)

Director of Photography

They Drive by Night (1940)

Director of Photography

Lady with Red Hair (1940)

Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)

Secret Service of the Air (1939)

Wings of the Navy (1939)

Kid Nightingale (1939)

Director of Photography

No Place to Go (1939)

Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)

Sweepstakes Winner (1939)

Each Dawn I Die (1939)

Mr. Chump (1938)

Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938)

Racket Busters (1938)

The Kid Comes Back (1938)

Swing Your Lady (1938)

They Won't Forget (1937)

The Go Getter (1937)

The Footloose Heiress (1937)

Submarine D-1 (1937)

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air (1937)

China Clipper (1936)

Hot Money (1936)

The Golden Arrow (1936)

The Golden Arrow (1936)

Satan Met a Lady (1936)

Ceiling Zero (1936)

Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Devil Dogs of the Air (1935)

While the Patient Slept (1935)

Maybe It's Love (1935)

The Merry Frinks (1934)

His Double Life (1934)

Here Comes the Navy (1934)

The Constant Woman (1933)

A Study in Scarlet (1933)

The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)

The Big Brain (1933)

The Invisible Man (1933)

Red Dust (1932)

The Last Mile (1932)

Those We Love (1932)

The Old Dark House (1932)

Strangers of the Evening (1932)

The Impatient Maiden (1932)

Cinematographer

Fast Companions (1932)

Cinematographer

Doctors' Wives (1931)

Waterloo Bridge (1931)

Cinematographer

The Man Who Came Back (1931)

Frankenstein (1931)

Cinematographer

Always Goodbye (1931)

The Big Trail (1930)

Grandeur Camera

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Director of Photography

Romance of the Rio Grande (1929)

Director of Photography

Girls Gone Wild (1929)

Director of Photography

The Cock-Eyed World (1929)

Director of Photography

In Old Arizona (1929)

Me, Gangster (1928)

Director of Photography

A Thief in the Dark (1928)

Director of Photography

The Gorilla (1927)

Director of Photography

The Patent Leather Kid (1927)

Director of Photography

McFadden's Flats (1927)

Director of Photography

The Drop Kick (1927)

Director of Photography

Sweet Daddies (1926)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Partners Again (1926)

Director of Photography

Subway Sadie (1926)

Director of Photography

Just Another Blonde (1926)

Director of Photography

Her Sister From Paris (1925)

Director of Photography

The Talker (1925)

Director of Photography

Waking Up the Town (1925)

Director of Photography

Stella Dallas (1925)

Director of Photography

One Way Street (1925)

Director of Photography

The Lost World (1925)

Director of Photography

Inez From Hollywood (1924)

Director of Photography

The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

Director of Photography

Robin Hood (1923)

Director of Photography

The Worldly Madonna (1922)

Director of Photography

Good Women (1921)

Director of Photography

The Three Musketeers (1921)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Forbidden Woman (1920)

Mid-Channel (1920)

For the Soul of Rafael (1920)

Cheating Cheaters (1919)

The Hushed Hour (1919)

The Better Wife (1919)

The Road Through the Dark (1918)

The Savage Woman (1918)

Nearly Married (1917)

The Page Mystery (1917)

The Social Leper (1917)

A Square Deal (1917)

The Stolen Paradise (1917)

Souls Adrift (1917)

The Price of Pride (1917)

A Woman Alone (1917)

Baby Mine (1917)

His Brother's Wife (1916)

Miss Petticoats (1916)

The Devil's Toy (1916)

The Gilded Cage (1916)

Bought and Paid for (1916)

The Master Hand (1915)

Hearts in Exile (1915)

The Deep Purple (1915)

The Dollar Mark (1914)

Cinematography (Short)

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestrae (1941)

Cinematographer

Life Events

1911

Hired as employee at Eclair

1918

Co-founded of the American Society of Cinematographers

1929

Pioneered location sound photography "In Old Arizona"

Videos

Maltese Falcon, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) I Like To Talk Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) visits the San Francisco hotel suite of "the fat man" Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet), who refuses to explain his interest in the black bird, in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

Maltese Falcon, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Such A Considerable Expense Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) in his first meeting with perfumed and mysterious Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre), inquiring about a bird, in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, 1941, from the Dashiell Hammett novel.

Maltese Falcon, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) A Guy Named Thursby Summoned from his bed at 2 a.m., San Francisco private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), with thus far friendly copper Polhaus (Ward Bond), at the scene of the murder of his partner Archer, written and directed by John Huston from the Dashiell Hammett novel, in The Maltese Falcon, 1941.

Maltese Falcon, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) Spade And Archer San Francisco detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) receives "Miss" O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor), soon joined by partner Miles Archer (Jerome Cowan), early in John Huston's The Maltese Falcon, 1941, from the Dashiell Hammett novel.

Casablanca (1942) -- (Movie Clip) In French Morocco The crackling and sometimes overlooked opening, Michael Curtiz directing, from the script by Julius and Philip Epstein and Howard Koch, featuring none of the famous players, narration by Lou Marcelle, from Casablanca, 1942.

Casablanca (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Of All The Gin Joints... A most famous scene, American ex-pat saloon owner Rick (Humphrey Bogart) in wartime Morocco, with employee Sam (Dooley Wilson), brooding over Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) having turned up at his joint, a flashback montage revealing why, in Casablanca, 1942.

Casablanca (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Are A Subject Of The German Reich Czech resistance hero Lazlo (Paul Henreid) and consort Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) arrive at Rick's Cafe, surprising Sam (Dooley Wilson), meeting Norwegian Berger (John Qualen), French Renault (Claude Rains) and German Strasser (Conrad Veidt), early in Casablanca, 1942.

Casablanca (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Letters Of Transit Introduction of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) at his Cafe` Americain, dismissing a smarmy German (Gregory Gaye), receiving sneaky Ugarte (Peter Lorre) introducing a key plot point, Dan Seymour the doorman, in Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, 1942.

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Blues In The Night, John Garfield Dinah Shore has just opened with the the title song, as radio host Don Wilson helps her segue to top-billed Eddie Cantor and the first big cameo, John Garfield (who co-founded the armed services pro-bono entertainment club the Hollywood Canteen, to which all the stars donated their salaries), with the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer tune, in one of the funniest bits in the bulky Warner Bros. wartime propaganda showcase, Thank Your Lucky Stars, 1943.

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) They're Either Too Young Or Too Old Bette Davis (like all the Warner Bros. stars, donating her salary to the Hollywood Canteen she co-founded), delivers an original by Arthur Schwartz and Frank Loesser which earned an Academy Award nomination and became a widely recorded hit, in the variety propaganda effort Thank Your Lucky Stars, 1943, Conrad Wiedell her dance partner.

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) That's What You Jolly Well Get The schtick for Errol Flynn (who like the other big names, donated his $50,000 salary to the armed services benefit Hollywood Canteen) for the wartime fundraiser show-within-a-show premise of the Warner Bros. propaganda feature is an original by Arthur Schwartz and Frank Loesser, staged by Leroy Prinz, in Thank Your Lucky Stars, 1943.

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Know Who You're Talking To? S.Z. “Cuddles” Sakall is the promoter with Edward Everett Horton of a fictional wartime benefit show, and they’re being driven nuts by (pretending) egomaniac star Eddie Cantor, so he doesn’t recognize Humphrey Bogart, maybe because of the impressive scruffy beard, in the Warner Bros. morale-Musical variety hit Thank Your Lucky Stars, 1943.

Wings Of The Navy - (Original Trailer) Pilot brothers (George Brent, John Payne) vie for the same woman (Olivia de Havilland) in Wings Of The Navy (1939).

Dinky - (Original Trailer) Jackie Cooper is a military school cadet who isn't told his mother has been framed and sent to prison in Dinky (1935).

Golden Arrow, The (1936) - (Original Trailer) A waitress posing as an heiress (Bette Davis) enters a "marriage of convenience" with a writer (George Brent) in The Golden Arrow (1938).

Cowboy from Brooklyn, The - (Original Trailer) A singing cowboy (Dick Powell) turns out to be a tenderfoot. Co-starring Pat O'Brien, directed by Lloyd Bacon.

China Clipper - (Original Trailer) A flyer (Pat O'Brien) sacrifices everything to open a transpacific airline in China Clipper (1936) co-starring Humphrey Bogart.

Castle on the Hudson - (Original Trailer) A hardened crook (John Garfield) vs. a reform-minded warden in a remake of 20,000 Years In Sing Sing, Castle on the Hudson (1940).

All Quiet On The Western Front - (Re-release trailer) The third Academy Award for Best Picture went to this searing saga of a young German soldier in World War I.

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air - (Original Trailer) A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio in the satire Mr. Dodd Takes The Air (1937).

Devil Dogs of the Air - (Original Trailer) James Cagney joins the Marine Flying Corps. Think he'll settle in without causing trouble? Think again in Devil Dogs of the Air (1935).

Satan Met a Lady - (Original Trailer) In Satan Met a Lady (1936), the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, Warren William is the detective and Bette Davis is the doublecrossing dame.

While the Patient Slept - (Original Trailer) A nurse investigates murder at a mysterious mansion in While The Patient Slept (1935) starring Aline MacMahon and Lyle Talbot.

Kid Nightingale - (Original Trailer) A waiter (John Payne) becomes a singing prizefighter in Kid Nightingale (1939) co-starring Jane Wyman.

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