Fritz Mandl (cameraman)

Fritz Mandl , also Fred Mandel or Fred Mandl (born July 13, 1908 in Cologne , Germany , † February 21, 1985 in Culver City , California , United States ) was a German-American cameraman .

Live and act

Mandl began his career in Austria at the side of his experienced colleague Hans Androschin . He then took pictures for the newsreel . After the seizure of power , the Jew Mandl fled to Spain . There he was behind the camera in some films under the slightly changed name of Fred Mandel. After the outbreak of the civil war , Mandl left the country again in 1936 and settled in the USA shortly before the end of the year.

Mandl became an American citizen in 1940 and served as a cameraman in the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II . He could barely gain a foothold in American cinema films, but in the 1950s he photographed some ambitious Hollywood productions as a simple or second-unit cameraman such as Endstation Sehnsucht , The Caine was her fate and Stanley Kramer's historical epic Pride and Passion and filmed in Spain William Wyler's Grand West Wide Land .

Since 1962, Fritz Mandl was a sought-after cameraman for popular US television series, including Auf der Flucht , The Munsters and Daktari . In 1970 he returned to the cinema and directed the camera in Russ Meyer's bestselling film The Seven Minutes .

Filmography

Movies unless otherwise stated

• 1928: happiness in women
• 1928: The dream of an Austrian reservist
• 1934: Crisis mundial
• 1934: El negro que tenia alma blanca
• 1935: El cura de Aldea
• 1935: La hila del penal
• 1935: Paloma de mis amores
• 1935: Rumbo al Cairo
• 1935: La verbena de la paloma
• 1936: Nuestra Natacha
• 1936: La reina mora
• 1940: Odio
• 1946: My Dog Shep
• 1947: Hot Heir (short film)
• 1962: Checkmate (TV series)
• 1962: You have to be an adult (TV series)
• 1963: St. Dominik and his sheep (TV series)
• 1963/64: On the run (TV series)
• 1964/65: The Munsters (TV series)
• 1965/66: The Man Without a Name (TV series)
• 1966–68: Daktari (TV series)
• 1970: The Seven Minutes
• 1973: Tom Sawyer (TV movie)
• 1973: In the Trap - Attack of the Killer Dogs (TV movie)
• 1977: Keeper of the Wild (an episode of the TV series)

literature

• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 328.

Web links

• Fritz Mandl in the Internet Movie Database (English)