Irving Glassberg

Irving Glassberg (born October 1, 1906 in Warsaw , Russian Empire ; † September 9, 1958 in Los Angeles ) was a Russian-Polish-born American cameraman .

Live and act

Glassberg came to the United States as a child and learned his photographic craft in Hollywood in the late 1920s. With the dawn of the sound film age, at the beginning of the 1930s, Glassberg was first proven to be a camera assistant in the service of First National Pictures . In 1931 he moved to Warner Bros. and worked in the same role in the legendary classic gangster film The Public Enemy with James Cagney . The following year, Glassberg was allowed to participate in The Midnight Patrol for the first time as co-responsible cameraman in the creation of a film. In 1935 Irving Glassberg moved up to become a simple cameraman (so-called camera operator) and remained in this position until the early post-war period.

Irving Glassberg was only able to photograph films regularly as head cameraman since he was 40. During the remaining decade of his life, the native of Warsaw shot an abundance of B-Pictures (54 films in just twelve years!) On behalf of Universal International Pictures , mainly westerns, but also crime novels, adventure stories and dramas, but hardly any comedies. His best-known works include Anthony Mann's western classic Mutiny on the Serpent River with James Stewart , the knight film The Iron Knight of Falworth , the horror story Behind the Walls of Horror with Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff, and the Douglas-Sirk melodrama Duel in the Clouds .

In 1958, the year he died, Glassberg moved to the tiny Canon Productions company. Glassberg died, not yet 52 years old, in the middle of the shooting of the Canon crime film In den Klauen der Unterwelt ; his work, which only premiered in August 1959, was completed by his colleague Philip H. Lathrop .

Filmography

• 1947: The Web
• 1948: The Black Mask (Black Bart)
• 1948: Casbah - Forbidden Alleys (Casbah)
• 1948: Rivals on the torrent (River Lady)
• 1948: Fraud (Larceny)
• 1948: The Red Canyon
• 1949: Steppe Rebels (Calamity Jane and Sam Bass)
• 1949: Arctic Manhunt
• 1949: Sword in the Desert (Sword in the Desert)
• 1949: The Story of Molly X
• 1949: Deadly Suction (Undertow)
• 1949: Francis - a donkey, Mr. General (Francis)
• 1950: I Was a Shoplifter (I Was a Shoplifter)
• 1950: Spy Hunt
• 1950: Without scruples (Shakedown)
• 1950: Horsemen Without Mercy (Kansas Raiders)
• 1951: The Prince Who Was a Thief
• 1951: The Cave of Outlaws
• 1951: Behind the Walls of Horror (The Strange Door)
• 1952: Mutiny at the Bend of the River
• 1952: His Great Fight (Flesh and Fury)
• 1952: Shots in New Mexico (The Duel at Silver Creek)
• 1952: The Black Castle
• 1953: Dangerous Blood (The Lawless Breed)
• 1953: The World Is His (The Mississippi Gambler)
• 1954: The Devil's Passage ( Border River)
• 1954: Ride with the Devil (Ride Clear of Diablo)
• 1954: The Iron Knight of Falworth (The Black Shield of Fallworth)
• 1955: When the Chains Break (Captain Lightfoot)
• 1955: The Purple Mask
• 1955: Seduced by the Devil (The Rawhide Years)
• 1956: Merciless (The Price of Fear)
• 1956: The Secret of the Five Tombs (Backlash)
• 1956: You or I (Outside the Law)
• 1956: Shots lash through the night (Showdown at Abilene)
• 1956: For Whom the Stars Shine (Four Girls in Town)
• 1957: The Rose of Tokyo (Joe Butterfly)
• 1957: Duel in the Clouds (The Tarnished Angels)
• 1957: Day of the Badman
• 1957: This is Music (The Big Beat)
• 1958: Always Trouble with Women (The Lady Takes a Flyer)
• 1958: Twilight for the Gods
• 1958: The Rabbit Trap
• 1959: In the Claws of the Underworld (Cry Tough)

Web links

• Irving Glasberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual proof

1. ↑ According to the California Death Index. The dates of birth to be read elsewhere “1. October 1903 "(IMDb) and" 19. October 1906 ”(English and French Wikipedia) are therefore not applicable.