Paul Lohmann (cameraman)

Paul Fritz Lohmann (born February 5, 1926 in New York City , United States ; † December 10, 1995 in Los Angeles ) was an American cameraman, whose work is primarily associated with the central works of Robert Altman .

Live and act

Lohmann learned his craft from scratch, first as a camera assistant, later as a cameraman for short and documentary films and additional scenes. It wasn't until the beginning of the 1970s that the native New Yorker was able to get regular commissions for cinema films. In the middle of the same decade he had his breakthrough with his photography of the two Robert Altman productions Nashville and Buffalo Bill and the Indians, which were very well received by the critics . Between the two films, Paul Lohmann photographed the television production Eleanor and Franklin in 1975 (about the American presidential couple Roosevelt), which earned him a Primetime Emmy in 1976 . At the same time, Lohmann's achievements made Altman's colleague Mel Brooks sit up and take notice, who then hired the cameraman for the photography of his two comedies Silent Movie and Höhenkoller . Lohmann's excursions into adventure film and action, such as The White Buffalo with Charles Bronson and Meteor with Sean Connery , were far less convincing.

Despite great success with critics and audiences, Lohmann's career petered out at the end of the same decade. From the 1980s to the early 1990s, he almost exclusively photographed less important films, from the mid-1980s onwards only mainstream TV food. In 1992 Paul Lohmann, who occasionally received an "n" in the surname in the opening credits, withdrew to the senior part. Lohmann, who last lived in Avalon (California) , has a son of almost the same name, Paul J. Lohmann, who worked as a camera assistant.

Filmography

• 1965: Red Light, Green Light: Meeting Strangers (short documentary film)
• 1969: Hell's Angels '70
• 1970: His Land (documentary)
• 1970: To Catch a Pebble
• 1972: Fillmore (documentary)
• 1972: A Day at the White House
• 1973: Coffy - the big cat ( Coffy )
• 1974: The Diamond Quartet ( The Great Rip-Off )
• 1974: California Split
• 1975: Nashville
• 1975: The Kansas City Gangster Battle ( The Kansas City Massacre , Movie made for TV)
• 1975: Eleanor and Franklin (TV movie)
• 1976: Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
• 1976: Mel Brooks' Final Madness: Silent Movie (Silent Movie)
• 1976: The White Buffalo ( The White Buffalo )
• 1977: Mel Brooks' high anxiety
• 1977: Curse of the Black Widow (Movie made for TV)
• 1978: An Enemy of the People ( An Enemy of the People ) (1976 turned)
• 1978: The Cops of Dallas ( Dallas North Forty )
• 1979: Escape to the Future ( Time After Time )
• 1979: Meteor (shot in 1977)
• 1979: Violation ( Mrs. R's Daughter , TV movie)
• 1979: Tracks to nowhere ( Hide in Plain Sight )
• 1980: The Jayne Mansfield Story ( The Jayne Mansfield Story , Movie made for TV)
• 1980: Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen ( Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen )
• 1980: Masada (TV night divider)
• 1981: My dear bad mother ( Mommie Dearest )
• 1981: No murder off the peg ( Looker )
• 1982: The death out of nowhere ( Endangered Species )
• 1982: Confessions of a Married Man (TV movie)
• 1984: The Mud Babies ( Delta Pi )
• 1984: Dollmaker - A dream comes true ( The Dollmaker , TV movie)
• 1985: Vultures, Money and Golden Eggs (Lust in the Dust)
• 1986: Dark Mansions (TV movie)
• 1986: His Last Chance ( The Christmas Star )
• 1987: The Abduction of Kari Swenson ( The Abduction of Kari Swenson , TV movie)
• 1987: A Lady named Laura ( Laura Lansing Slept Here , Movie made for TV)
• 1988: Scandal in a Small Town (Movie made for TV)
• 1988: The Outside Woman (TV movie)
• 1989: The Nutt House (TV series)
• 1989: A Family for Joe (TV movie)
• 1990: The Relentless ( Johnny Ryan , Movie made for TV)
• 1990: Fire on board Flight 1501 ( Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501 , TV movie)
• 1991: Nightmare ( Aftermath: A Test of Love , TV movie)
• 1991: Verfluchte Liebe ( Love and Curses ... And All That Jazz , TV movie)
• 1992: Secrets (TV movie)

Web links

• Paul Lohmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)