Robert De Grasse

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Robert De Grasse (born February 9, 1900 in Maplewood , † January 28, 1971 in Newport Beach ) was an American cameraman .

Life

Robert De Grasse came to film through his two uncles, film director Joseph De Grasse and actor Sam De Grasse , during the silent film era . De Grasse started out as a camera operator and eventually became head of the camera team. De Grasse made his first film as a cameraman, Western Desperate Trails , in 1921, directed by John Ford .

After the silent film era, De Grasse's last silent film was The One Man Dog from 1929, he started all over again to learn the peculiarities and techniques of the sound film as a cameraman. As a camera assistant he shot in 1932, among other things, alongside cameraman Robert G. Martin , the Sherlock Holmes film The Sign of the Four , with Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes . From 1935 he was again chief cameraman at RKO Pictures .

De Grasse led the camera in some of Ginger Rogers ' films , such as Vivacious Lady , for which De Grasse received an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematographer in 1939 . When Miss Kitty ( Kitty Foyle , 1940), for the Rogers with the Oscar as Best Actress Award, he also stood behind the camera.

In the 1940s, De Grass led the camera in such films as The Leopard Man (1943) directed by Jacques Tourneur , Der Leichendieb ( The Body Snatcher , 1945) and Love Is Not So Simple ( The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer , 1947) with Cary Grant .

In 1950 De Grasse was hired as cameraman for Fred Zinnemann's drama The Men ( The Men ). Before he retired from the film business, got Robert De Grasse in 1953 for Frank Tashlins film Marry me again ( Marry Me again ) behind the camera.

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SURNAME De Grasse, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Maplewood
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1971
Place of death Newport Beach