Maury Gertsman

Maurice "Maury" Gertsman (born May 17, 1907 in Pennsylvania , United States , † December 13, 1999 in Encino , California ) was an American cameraman .

Life

Patricia Morison and Frederick Worlock in Gertsman's Sherlock Holmes crime thriller Hunt for Music Boxes (1946)

Gertsman spent his childhood in Grauton ( New Hampshire ) and came to California at a very early age. At the beginning of the sound film era, he was employed as a camera operator, camera assistant and finally a simple cameraman, and in this role he was also involved in the early horror film classic The Werewolf of London in 1934 .

In the middle of the Second World War, Universal Studios employed him as chief cameraman - initially for short films, and from 1944 also for full-length feature films. Gertsman has served exclusively B-productions throughout his three decades spanning career as chief photographer . The genre field that he preferred to look after was routine and artistically ambitious westerns and crime novels. Occasionally Gertsman also photographed costume and fantasy fabrics, more rarely romances and love stories. Sporadically he also returned to the horror film subject. In 1954 he was responsible for the design of the tough autobiographical war film To Hell and Back with Western star Audie Murphy .

In the early 1960s, Maury Gertsman shifted his work to series television and for many years was the chief cameraman of two long-lasting comedy shows with Lucille Ball , Oops Lucy! and Here's Lucy! . In 1974 he retired into private life.

Filmography

As head cameraman at the cinema, unless otherwise stated:

• 1942: Campus Capers (short film)
• 1944: Trail to Gunsight
• 1945: Blonde ransomware
• 1945: The Jungle Captive
• 1945: Strange Confession
• 1946: Blonde alibi
• 1946: The She-Wolf of London
• 1946: Hunting for music boxes (Dressed to Kill)
• 1946: Jewel theft (Terror by Night)
• 1947: Time out of Mind
• 1947: Singapore (Singapore)
• 1948: Marriage Without Love (Rachel and the Stranger)
• 1948: The Man Without a Face (Rogues' Regiment)
• 1949: The Brood of Satan (City Across the River)
• 1949: Cocaine (Johnny Stool Pigeon)
• 1950: South Sea Sinner
• 1950: Revolver Lady (Frenchie)
• 1950: In the land of the Comanches (Comanche Territory)
• 1950: Age does not protect against love (Louisa)
• 1951: Pirates of Macau (Smuggler's Island)
• 1951: The big train to Santa Fé (Cattle Drive)
• 1951: Determined to do anything (Meet Danny Wilson)
• 1952: It Grows on Trees
• 1952: The son of Ali Baba (Son of Ali Baba)
• 1953: The Great Sioux Uprising
• 1953: The glass network (The Glass Web)
• 1953: The Golden Sword (The Golden Blade)
• 1953: In spite of all dangers (Back to God's Country)
• 1954: Rails Into Laramie
• 1954: Tanganyika
• 1954: To Hell and Back (To Hell and Back)
• 1955: And if it weren't for love ... (One Desire)
• 1955: With Brute Force (The Spoilers)
• 1955: Just You Alone (Never Say Goodbye)
• 1956: The Pack Lurks Everywhere (Raw Edge)
• 1956: The Creature Walks Among Us
• 1956: Behind the High Wall
• 1957: The die is cast (Gun Duel in Durango)
• 1957: Devil in the Neck (Monkey on My Back)
• 1958: Satan with the Thousand Masks (How to Make a Monster)
• 1958: Timbuktu
• 1958: Youth without a law (Riot in Juvenile Prison)
• 1959: The Black Hand of the Mafia (Inside the Mafia)
• 1959: Danger in Havana (Pier 5, Havana)
• 1959: Settlement in Abilene (Gunfighters of Abilene)
• 1959: Murder Trio (Three Came to Kill)
• 1960: Cage of Evil
• 1960: In Sight (The Walking Target)
• 1960: Five Guns to Tombstone
• 1960: Between the fronts (Frontier Uprising)
• 1961: Mister Ed (TV series)
• 1961: Six Black Horses
• 1962–68: Oops Lucy! (TV series)
• 1966: The Sheriff fires back (Gunfight in Abilene)
• 1968–74: Here's Lucy! (TV series)

Web links

• Maury Gertsman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Life data at: ancestry.com.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Almost all secondary sources give “17. April ”, but the grave slab clearly says“ 17. May".
2. ↑ The census from the beginning of 1920 already shows a "Morris" ( information in ancestry.com ) Gertsman from Pennsylvania who was born around 1908 .