George Greenbaum
George Greenbaum , actually Georg Grünbaum (born January 11, 1889 in Chicago , United States , † after 1929) was a German-American silent film cameraman with excursions to directing films.
Live and act
The son of the film producer Jules Greenbaum came to Berlin with his family in 1895, where his brother Max, who was to become a famous cameraman as Mutz Greenbaum , was born the following year . As early as 1905, George, who had attended grammar school and then the technical college, came across the film industry and learned the craft from scratch. Apparently he returned to the United States at a young age, as there is evidence that he was an American director in 1915. A little later, due to the developments in World War I, Greenbaum must have decided to return home to Germany.
In Berlin he worked as a cameraman from 1917 and initially photographed dramas for Treumann-Larsen-Film. Most recently he was behind the camera in productions by his father. Unlike his younger brother Mutz, however, George could not really assert himself as a cameraman. After the still photography for the German film The Queen of His Heart , made in the winter of 1927/28 , in which Mutz Greenbaum was the chief camera, George Greenbaum disappeared from the public eye. Possibly he returned to the USA. There he is said to have joined the management of Universal-Film Carl Laemmles . Nothing is known about his whereabouts, and no date of death can be determined in the United States.
Filmography
as a cameraman unless otherwise stated
- 1915: The World of Today (Director)
- 1917: The poison cup
- 1918: The Curse of Nuri
- 1918: The film Kathi
- 1918: your boy
- 1919: The Geisha and the Samurai
- 1919: The heir to Skialdingsholm
- 1920: The blue hotel
- 1920: Nirvana
- 1920: The uninhabited house
- 1920: your greatest trick
- 1920: The Abyss of Souls
- 1921: The Night of the Dead
- 1921: Stephan Huller's oath
literature
- Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. p. 67
Web links
- George Greenbaum in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- George Greenbaum at filmportal.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greenbaum, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grünbaum, George (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American silent film cameraman with trips to directing films |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1929 |