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- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Oscar-winning cinematographer Karl Struss was born on November 30, 1886, in New York City. He became a professional photographer after studying photography with Clarence H. White and became part of the group associated with the great photographer Alfred Stieglitz. His photographs, which he characterized as "pictorial" rather than "fashion", were published in leading magazines, including "Harper's Bazaar," "Vanity Fair" and "Vogue."
Struss moved to Los Angeles in 1919 to practice his craft as a still photographer. He subsequently was hired by producer-director Cecil B. DeMille to serve as a cameraman in his second-unit. Along with Charles Rosher, he won the first Oscar ever awarded for cinematography at the first Academy Awards, for photographing Sunrise (1927) for F.W. Murnau. He was nominated for the Academy Award three more times for his cinematography.
In addition to DeMille and Murnau, Struss worked with such greats as Charles Chaplin and D.W. Griffith. After being the director of photography on Mary Pickford's Sparrows (1926), he was the lighting cameraman on her first sound film, Coquette (1929), for which she won a Best Actress Academy Award. He worked with other top stars such as Fredric March, who won an Oscar on the Struss-photographed Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), for which Struss was also Oscar-nominated.
Karl Struss was not only one of the first cinematographers to work in color (he shot in two-strip Technicolor on the original screen version of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)), he also was a pioneer in three-dimensional cinematography in the 1940s and 1950s.
Karl Struss died on December 15, 1981. He was 95 years old.- Writer
- Music Department
- Producer
Lawrence Edward Watkin was born on 9 December 1901 in New York, USA. Lawrence Edward was a writer and producer, known for Enchanted (2007), Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and The Great Locomotive Chase (1956). Lawrence Edward died on 16 December 1981 in San Joaquin County, California, USA.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Edith Bell was born in 1923 in Seattle, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for The Crazies (1973). She was married to Lee Hessel. She died on 16 December 1981 in Tarrytown, New York, USA.- Marsh Maslin died on 16 December 1981 in Berkeley, California, USA.
- Victor Kugler was born on 5 June 1900 in Hohenelbe, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Vrchlabí, Czech Republic]. He died on 16 December 1981 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.