Lothrop Worth

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Lothrop B. Worth (born July 11, 1903 in Melrose , United States , † March 16, 2000 in Woodland Hills , California , United States) was an American cameraman .

Live and act

Lothrop Worth grew up in Los Angeles since 1907, where his mother took over the beauty care of Cecil B. DeMille's then wife. Mrs. DeMille made sure that young Lothrop got a job in her husband's production machinery. In 1923 he got his first camera job: DeMille had him photograph the titles for his large-scale production The Ten Commandments . Until the rise of the sound film, where he began as a sound engineer, Worth kept afloat with small film jobs. From 1929 he began to work behind the camera constantly; initially as an assistant, from the Second World War as a simple cameraman like DeMilles Dr. Wassell's Escape from Java and Billy Wilder's I kiss your hand, Madame .

Lothrop was almost 50 years old when he played a decisive role in the development of the 3D film with his work on Bwana, the Devil . He also worked as a specialist in three-dimensional camera recordings in the following 3D film, the horror story The Cabinet of Professor Bondi . Then, as head cameraman, Worth photographed sometimes obscure C-Pictures such as the science fiction flick Gog , the horror story I Was a Teenage Frankenstein and the strange horror western genre mix Billy the Kid vs. Dracula , but also cheaply and quickly produced late wests from the AC Lyles production ( The Lawless Three, Texas Desperados ). His main field of activity until his retirement from the film business in 1970 was working for American television. Here he photographed countless episodes for series such as The Real McCoys, Mother is the very best and, above all, the charming Jeannie, who is also popular in Germany .

From 1989, the year his wife died, Lothrop B. Worth spent the rest of his life in a retirement home for veteran filmmakers, the Motion Picture & Television Fund Country House, in Woodland Hills, California. Here he died at the beginning of 2000 at the age of 97.

Filmography (selection)

as head cameraman:

  • 1952: Natural Vision 3-Dimension (short documentary film)
  • 1953: Fort Ti
  • 1954: Gog
  • 1955: SOS! Fly forward! ( Battle Taxi )
  • 1955: The Great Gildersleeve (TV series)
  • 1955–56: Screen Directors Playhouse (TV series)
  • 1956–57: The Gale Storm Show (TV series)
  • 1957: I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
  • 1958: Unwed Mother
  • 1962: Shoot Out at Bag Sag
  • 1963: The Real McCoys (TV series)
  • 1965: Mother is the Very Best ( The Donna Reed Show , TV series)
  • 1966: Billy the Kid vs. Dracula
  • 1966: Jesse James meets Frankenstein's Daughter
  • 1967: Texas Desperados ( Hostile Guns )
  • 1967: The Lawless Three ( Fort Utah )
  • 1969: Three's a Crowd
  • 1966–70: Charming Jeannie (TV series, I Dream of Jeannie )

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personal data
SURNAME Worth, Lothrop
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Worth, Lothrop B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Melrose , United States
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2000
Place of death Woodland Hills