Ted Voigtlander

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Theodore William "Ted" Voigtlander (born August 3, 1913 in Kellogg , United States , † December 7, 1988 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American cameraman for film and television.

Live and act

Theodore, called "Ted", William Voigtländer, descendant of German immigrants, had studied bacteriology at the University of Idaho and made a name for himself as a musician and scientist. Then (still in the 1930s) he went to Los Angeles. It was more by chance that Voigtlander came across film while he was working at MGM and helping a cameraman to set up a studio. Voigtlander soon learned everything about photography on site and began working regularly as a camera assistant in the industry since 1943. After the war he was still used as an assistant but also as a color film technician. In the Egyptian drama The Valley of the Kings , Ted Voigtlander was demonstrably first employed as a simple cameraman in 1953/54.

Voigtlander was late in moving up to the position of chief cameraman; Since the early 1960s, he has been shooting a wealth of individual films and animated television series, including Ben Casey, Crazy Wild West , Cowboy in Africa and, above all, Bonanza . Here he met the actor who played Little Joe, Michael Landon , for whose follow-up series Our Little Farm and An Angel on Earth Voigtlander should also be behind the camera. Landon's individual production Sam's Son , shot for the cinema in 1983 , was also photographed by Ted Voigtlander. For his work on It's Good to Be Alive and Our Little Farm he received a total of four Primetime Emmys . The cameraman died in Los Angeles at the age of 75, a few months after filming his last episode for An Angel on Earth .

Filmography

  • 1961–65: Ben Carey (TV series)
  • 1965–67: Crazy Wild West ( The Wild Wild West , TV series)
  • 1967: Companero (The Bandits)
  • 1967–68: Cowboy in Africa ( Cowboy in Africa , TV series)
  • 1968–73: Bonanza (TV series)
  • 1972: Rabbits (Night of the Lepus)
  • 1973: Key West
  • 1973–74: Room 222 (TV series)
  • 1974: It's Good to be Alive
  • 1975: Brenda Starr
  • 1976: Amelia Earhart
  • 1976: The victory of his life (The Loneliest Runner)
  • 1977: Columbo (two episodes of the TV series)
  • 1977: Dead killers don't murder (The Mask of Alexander Cross)
  • 1978: Killing Stone
  • 1979: The Miracle Worker
  • 1980: The Diary of Anne Frank
  • 1981: Dreams melt away like sand (Splendor in the Grass)
  • 1974–83: Our Little Farm (Little House on the Prairie)
  • 1983: Two corpses at supper (Sparkling Cyanide)
  • 1983: Sam's Son
  • 1984: No Man's Land
  • 1984: The Bad Seed
  • 1984–88: An Angel on Earth (Highway to Heaven)

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personal data
SURNAME Voigtlander, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voigtlander, Theodore William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film and television cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Kellogg , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1988
Place of death Los Angeles , California