Merritt B. Gerstad

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Merritt B. Gerstad (5 July 1900, Chicago, Illinois – 1 March 1974, Laguna Beach, California) was an American cinematographer of silent and early sound films. After beginning as a cinematographer on films for Universal, he worked for MGM, working with director Tod Browning on (the lost) London After Midnight (1927) and Freaks (1932), and Sam Wood on the Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera (1935). Later he was at Warner Bros. for Watch on the Rhine (1943) starring Bette Davis, Conflict (1945) with Humphrey Bogart in the lead, and the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), his last credit.

Camera

1920

[ ] The Poor Simp (Director of Photography)

1924

[ ] The Man from Wyoming (Director of Photography)
[ ] Fight and Win (Director of Photography)
[ ] The Galloping Ace (Director of Photography)

1925

[ ] The Mad Whirl (Director of Photography)

1926

[ ] The Ice Flood (Director of Photography)

1927

[ ] The Unknown (Director of Photography)
[ ] Mockery (Director of Photography)
[ ] London After Midnight (Director of Photography)

1929

[ ] The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Director of Photography)
[ ] The Thirteenth Chair (Director of Photography)
[ ] Devil-May-Care (Director of Photography)
[ ] Navy Blues (Director of Photography)
[ ] A Man's Man (Director of Photography)
[ ] Wonder of Women (Director of Photography)

1930

[ ] Call of the Flesh (Director of Photography)
[ ] Remote Control (Director of Photography)
[ ] A Lady to Love (Director of Photography)
[ ] Our Blushing Brides (Director of Photography)
[ ] Every Woman's Longing (Director of Photography)
[ ] Those Three French Girls (Director of Photography)

1931

[ ] The Great Lover (Director of Photography)
[ ] Flying High (Director of Photography)
[ ] Guilty Hands (Director of Photography)
[ ] Never the Twain Shall Meet (Director of Photography)
[ ] Daybreak (Director of Photography)
[ ] West of Broadway (Director of Photography)

1932

[ 7/10 ] Freaks (Director of Photography)
[ ] Payment Deferred (Director of Photography)
[ ] Strange Justice (Director of Photography)
[ ] Night World (Director of Photography)

1933

[ ] The Secret of Madame Blanche (Director of Photography)
[ ] Only Yesterday (Director of Photography)
[ ] Goldie Gets Along (Director of Photography)
[ ] The Mayor of Hell (Director of Photography)

1934

[ ] Social Register (Director of Photography)
[ ] Imitation of Life (Director of Photography)
[ ] Beloved (Director of Photography)

1935

[ ] A Night at the Opera (Director of Photography)

1936

[ ] Strike Me Pink (Director of Photography)
[ ] The Magnificent Brute (Director of Photography)
[ ] The Great Ziegfeld (Director of Photography)
[ ] One Rainy Afternoon (Director of Photography)
[ ] The Luckiest Girl in the World (Director of Photography)

1937

[ ] She Married an Artist (Director of Photography)
[ ] Seventh Heaven (Director of Photography)
[ ] Souls at Sea (Director of Photography)

1939

[ ] Slightly Honorable (Director of Photography)
[ ] Winter Carnival (Director of Photography)
[ ] Eternally Yours (Director of Photography)
[ ] Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (Director of Photography)

1940

[ ] The House Across the Bay (Director of Photography)
[ ] Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things (Director of Photography)

1941

[ ] Tom, Dick and Harry (Director of Photography)

1942

[ ] Night in New Orleans (Director of Photography)

1943

[ ] Watch on the Rhine (Director of Photography)

1945

[ ] Conflict (Director of Photography)
[ ] Rhapsody in Blue (Additional Photography)

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