Ted Pahle
Ted Pahle (born August 23, 1899 as Theodor Joseph Pahle in New York City , New York ; † January 9, 1979 ibid) was an American cameraman .
Live and act
Pahle, a descendant of German immigrants, began to gain early film experience at the Astoria Studios in New York shortly after the end of the First World War, before receiving assignments as head cameraman from Paramount Pictures in the late 1920s, while the movie was still silent .
Since the beginning of the sound film era, Pahle worked in various European studios, initially primarily in France , where he photographed his first important work in 1931 with Marius , the first part of Marcel Pagnol's famous Marseille trilogy . In 1936 Willi Forst engaged him for his pretentious, top-class productions Allotria and Burgtheater . Back in Paris, Ted Pahle worked on some lavish commercial productions - mainly adventure stories based on external tension and cosmopolitan tears without artistic aspirations. It was directed by the emigrants Fedor Ozep , Richard Oswald and Robert Wiene, who fled Hitler's Germany .
In the autumn of 1938, Forst again brought the French elect to be with him; this time to Vienna to film the Maupassant story Bel Ami with him, the most elaborate and “Parisian” project . Pahle's elegant camera work and Forst's light-handed direction conveyed a flair that was unusually open, urbane and “spicy and sinful” for Nazi cinema; that of the Belle Epoque .
Shortly after the end of the Spanish Civil War and before the outbreak of World War II, Ted Pahle went to Madrid , where he immediately caught up with the film scene there. During the war he also served as press attaché for the US embassy in the Spanish capital. In the 1950s, Anglo-American directors who produced the outdoor shots for their films in Spain also resorted to Pahle, who worked as a second-unit cameraman in such cases. In this function he was between 1952 and 1957 a. a. in the films That Man From Tangier , The King's Lady , Alexander the Great and Flamenca - an American worked in Spain .
After his return to the USA at the end of the 1950s, Pahle found hardly any employment in film and had to limit his activity to a few smaller tasks in television. Pahle's activities as a cameraman and his services for US diplomacy made him one of the most traveled men in his country in the interwar period: between 1925 and 1937 alone, a dozen voyages were guaranteed with him on board, most of them between the USA and Europe.
Filmography (selection)
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literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 119.
Web links
- Ted Pahle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Pahl, Ted |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pahle, Theodor Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , NY, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1979 |
| Place of death | New York City , NY, USA |