Lloyd Ahern senior

Lloyd George Ahern , later also known as Lloyd Ahern sr. led (born April 7, 1905 in Biloxi (Mississippi) , United States ; † December 29, 1983 in Culver City ) was an American cameraman who made a name for himself as a "master of the" film noir "mystery styles and as a photographer leading Hollywood “glamor” stars ”.

Live and act

Ahern, born in the state of Mississippi, came to Los Angeles in the early 1920s, where he joined the film business when he was around 20. In 1926 he began as a camera assistant under his teacher Charles Edgar Schoenbaum and was initially involved in the photography of cheap serial westerns based on Zane Gray 's. At the end of the silent film era, Ahern was already working in this same role in A-films such as the Foreign Legionnaires' adventure The White Harem, shot in 1927, with the young Gary Cooper in the leading role. At the beginning of the sound film era, there were also collaborations with star directors such as Ernst Lubitsch ( The Man Who Driven His Conscience ) and Cecil B. DeMille ( Crusader Richard the Lionheart ). Ahern did not become a simple cameraman until late, and in this position he was behind the camera in Otto Preminger's film noir classic Laura in 1944 . Two years later, after working as a camera on the Lubitsch comedy Cluny Brown on Free Feet and on John Ford's western classic Law of the Prairie , Lloyd Ahern was finally promoted to chief cameraman.

With the film adaptation of a dark Raymond Chandler crime novel about the private detective Philip Marlowe, The Brasher Doubloon , Lloyd Ahern set accents straight away with his first film and established himself as an expert in moody black and white photography. At the side of Charles G. Clarke, he worked in the same year 1946 on the classic Christmas film The Miracle of Manhattan . With Robert Siodmak's Schrei der Großstadt in 1948, Ahern returned to the film noir genre he was familiar with. The cameraman then also photographed cinema productions - mostly B-films - of completely different genres, until he almost completely left the cinema business in 1955. When his employer, the production company Twentieth Century Fox , turned to television that year, Ahern put them there. Ahern photographed various Twentieth Century Fox Hour productions and, starting with the stories about the horse Flicka , was brought in for series from the start. In 1963 he was also behind the camera in the pilot episode of the legendary crime series Auf der Flucht . At the end of the 1970s - Lloyd Ahern celebrated a late success as the cameraman of some early episodes of the US version of The Dream Ship , Love Boat - Ahern withdrew to his retirement.

Ahern, who won a Primetime Emmy in 1972 for the Columbo crime episode Monument for Eternity and was nominated for two other Primetime Emmys in his career, had a son, Lloyd Ahern II (* Los Angeles June 17, 1942), who was in his Followed in footsteps and also worked as a cameraman (and occasionally as a television director).

Filmography

only as head cameraman for movies, unless otherwise stated:

• 1946: The Brasher Doubloon
• 1947: The Miracle of Manhattan ( Miracle on 34th Street )
• 1948: Cry of the City ( Cry of the City )
• 1949: Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
• 1949: Father Was a Fullback
• 1950: For Heavens Sake
• 1950: Love That Brute
• 1951: Love Nest
• 1952: Five Pearls (O. Henry's Full House)
• 1953: The Silver Whip ( The Silver Wheep )
• 1954: River of Vengeance ( The Gambler from Natchez )
• 1954: Princess of the Nile ( Princess of the Nile )
• 1954: The Coney Island Shrike ( Gorilla at Large )
• 1955: Looters on Pikes Peak ( The Looters )
• 1955: Flicka (TV series)
• 1956–57: You Are There (TV series)
• 1957–58: How to Marry a Millionaire (TV series)
• 1959: Dangerous Business ( The Third Man , TV series)
• 1959–62: Adventures in Paradise (TV series)
• 1961: The Sand Castle
• 1963: Auf der Flucht ( The Fugitive ) (pilot of the TV series)
• 1963-66: Katy (TV series)
• 1966: Hot Rods to Hell
• 1966–67: Occasional Wife (TV series)
• 1967–68: The Second Hundred Years (TV series)
• 1968: Mad Mad Scientist (TV movie)
• 1968–69: Julia (TV series)
• 1971: Colmubo: Monument for Eternity ( Blueprint for Murder ) (TV movie)
• 1972–73: Where All Roads End ( Night Gallery ) (three episodes of the TV series)
• 1973: Diana (two episodes of the TV series)
• 1974: Cursed They All ( The Klansman )
• 1977–78: Love Boat (TV series)

Individual evidence

1. ^ According to obituary in American Cinematographer, February 1984

Web links

• Obituary and Biography in American Cinematographer, Vol. 65, No. 2, February 1984
• Lloyd Ahern senior in the Internet Movie Database (English)