Harry J. Wild

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Harry J. Wild , also Harry Wild or Harry Wilde, (born July 5, 1901 in New York , † February 24, 1961 in Los Angeles ) was an American cameraman .

Live and act

Wild joined the film in his hometown of New York in 1917 as a messenger boy for Paramount and got to know the industry from the bottom up. In 1925 he moved to Los Angeles, now a camera assistant. There he became chief cameraman in 1936 and initially had to limit himself to photography for B-Westerns.

At the beginning of the Second World War, Wild made a name for himself as the RKO's in- house photographer . He was particularly convincing as a specialist in light and shadow effects and demonstrated a sure feeling for effective lighting, also at the side of Stanley Cortez in Orson Welles ' early masterpiece The Shine of the House of Amberson . He owes much to a number of reasonably priced mystery thrillers starring Dick Powell , Robert Mitchum and Victor Mature , which he photographed between the mid-1940s and early 1950s, and two Jane Russell melodramas in 1950 ( Macao and Ein Satansweib ) Camera work. Other well-known wild films are two Tarzan films, Jean Renoir's film noir The Woman on the Beach (1947) and the classic comedy Blondes preferred (1953) with Marilyn Monroe .

He has not received any feature films since 1955, and so he subsequently only shot episodes of various television series, including Panic , The Bob Cummings Show , Incredible Stories (The Twilight Zone) and, most recently, The Bounty Hunter (Wanted: Dead or Alive) with the young Steve McQueen in the title role.

For the film Army Girl , Wild and his colleague Ernest Miller were nominated for an Oscar in 1939 .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 8: T - Z. David Tomlinson - Theo Zwierski. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 382.

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personal data
SURNAME Wild, Harry J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wild, Harry; Wilde, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1961
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States