Harold Rosson

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Harold Rosson (born April 6, 1895 in New York City , † September 6, 1988 in Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American cameraman .

Rosson, who has been a member of the American Society of Cinematographers since 1927 , appears in the credits as Hal Rosson or Harold G. Rosson , or Harold Hal Rosson .

Life

Harold Rosson first worked as a supporting actor in the Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn before moving to Hollywood in 1914, where his brothers, directors Arthur and Richard Rosson and his sister, actress Helen Rosson, worked. For the next several years Rosson worked in Los Angeles for a securities dealer and only on the side as an assistant at Metro Studios . During this time he acquired enough knowledge to be hired by Allan Dwan in 1915 as a cameraman for David Harum , with whom he worked frequently until the early 1930s. After the United States entered World War I , Rosson was drafted into the army. After his discharge from the army, he returned to Hollywood.

For his brother Arthur Rosson, Harold Rosson was behind the camera in Polly of the Storm Country 1920 and Garrison's Finish in 1923. That year, Rosson worked for the first time on Dark Secrets with director Victor Fleming , for whom he was often behind the camera in the years to come . Towards the end of the 1920s, Harold Rosson worked as a cameraman for Josef von Sternberg at The Dragnet and The Docks of New York , and for Howard Hawks at Trent's Last Case in 1929.

In the early 1930s, Rosson was hired by Cecil B. DeMille for Madame Satan and The Squaw Man . A year later, in 1932, Rosson directed the camera on Tarzan the Ape Man , the first Tarzan film with Johnny Weissmüller . The film was directed by WS Van Dyke . In 1933 the satire Sexbombe was created by director Victor Fleming, with Jean Harlow in the lead role. In the same year Rosson and Harlow married. Rosson, who was Harlow's third husband, had previously worked with the actress on Jungle in the Storm and Firehead . The marriage ended in divorce in 1935. In 1936 Rosson was hired as cameraman by David O. Selznick for The Garden of Allah , directed by Richard Boleslawski . For this work, Rosson's first color film, he received an honorary Oscar in 1938 .

In England Rosson led 1936 the camera at the man who wanted to change the world , a production of Alexander Korda and As You Like It , a film adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy directed by Paul Czinner , with Laurence Olivier as Orlando , he was involved as a second cameraman.

Rosson received an Oscar nomination for his cinematography on director Victor Flemings' The Wizard of Oz from 1939 . The cameraman received further Oscar nominations for Boom Town 1940, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo , 1944 and John Huston's Asphalt Jungle , 1950, for which he was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award .

In the 1940s Rosson worked as a cameraman for King Vidor's drama An American Romance , 1944 and the western Duel in der Sonne , 1946. Rosson was behind the camera as well as for Fred Zinnemann's comedy My Brother Talks to Horses , 1947 Sam Woods war film Command Decision , 1948.

During the 1950s Rosson led the camera under different for John Huston's The Red Bravery Medal , 1951, at you the Rain shalt be of Gene Kelly and Ulysses with Kirk Douglas in the lead role. For the 1956 film Böse Saat , Rosson received his fifth Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. After films such as Duel in the Atlantic , 1957 and The Onion Head , 1958, Rosson withdrew from the film business. Rosson went back behind the camera for Lewis Allen's decision at midnight in 1963 and Howard Hawks' Western El Dorado in 1967.

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SURNAME Rosson, Harold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosson, Hal; Rosson, Harold G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1988
Place of death Palm Beach , Florida , United States