Oscar Lagerstrom
Oscar Edmond Lagerstrom (born November 19, 1890 in Delhi , Minnesota , † July 30, 1974 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film and sound engineer .
biography
Lagerstrom began as a sound engineer in the Studio Sounds Department of the United Artists , was involved in the creation of a film for New York Nights for the first time in 1929 and worked on almost 30 films over the course of his career.
At the Academy Awards in November 1930 , he was first nominated for the Oscar for Best Sound in Raffles (1930). A second Oscar nomination in the Best Sound category followed in 1937 for Time of Love, Time of Farewell (1936).
Other well-known films he worked on as a sound engineer were Whoopee! (1930), A Star Rises (1937) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1937). Among the film directors with whom he worked, were George Fitzmaurice , Thornton Freeland , William Wyler , William A. Wellman and John Cromwell .
Web links
- Oscar Lagerstrom in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Camp current, Oscar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Camp Stream, Oscar Edmond (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and sound engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Delhi , Minnesota |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 30, 1974 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California |