Walter Lundin

Walter Lundin (born April 20, 1892 in Chicago , United States , † June 21, 1954 in Los Angeles ) was an American cameraman who was able to celebrate his greatest successes in slapstick films from the late 1910s to the early 1930s.

Live and act

After a short time, Lundin rose to become head cameraman as a camera assistant and from 1913 onwards he photographed a wealth of short films. In 1914, his new employer, the same-age producer Hal Roach , brought him together with the one year younger comedian Harold Lloyd , a Roach discovery. Lundin and Lloyd were to work together regularly for the next two decades. Lundin photographed some of the highlights in Lloyd's filmmaking, including Grandmother's Favorite , 1000: 1 = Harold Lloyd, The Sports Student , For Heaven's Sake and, above all, Skyscrapers! .

This extremely successful collaboration ended after four early sound films. Around the same time, Lundin (often unnamed) helped out with the camera work for one or the other Laurel & Hardy film, also from the Roach production. As a result of Roach's separation from Dick & Doof, Lundin's rapid decline began. From then on he only photographed short films or third-rate cheap productions. After the Second World War , Lundin hardly received any more orders.

Filmography

• 1913: Slim Gets the Reward
• 1914: Slim's Last Trick
• 1914: Slim to the Rescue
• 1914: Slim Becomes a Cook
• 1917: Over the Fence
• 1917: Bliss
• 1917: All Aboard
• 1917: Move On
• 1918: "He" as a fireman (Fireman, Save My Child)
• 1918: "He" as a photographer (Look Pleasant Please)
• 1918: "He" with the Turks (Somewhere in Turkey)
• 1918: "He" catches bears (An Ozark Romance)
• 1918: "He" as Mr. Jazz (Young Mr. Jazz)
• 1919: Si Señor
• 1919: "He" as a marathon runner (The Marathon)
• 1919: Sultry spring days (Spring Fever)
• 1919: Two Good Neighbors (Just Neighbors)
• 1919: "He" - dreams are foams (The Rajah)
• 1919: "He" as a gate pusher (At the Old Stage Door)
• 1919: "He" as a prairie hunter (Heap Big Chief)
• 1919: "He" as a false prince
• 1919: From Hand to Mouth
• 1920: "He" in the House of Secrets (Haunted Spooks)
• 1920: "He" in the wild west (An Eastern Westerner)
• 1920: "He" heals the moonstruck / Höhenrausch (High and Dizzy)
• 1920: Number Please
• 1920: "He" in the sleeping car (Now or Never)
• 1921: "He" as a father of twenty (I Do)
• 1921: "He" on a fox hunt / High Society (Among Those Present)
• 1921: "He" in paradise / Just don't weaken (Never Weaken)
• 1921: High Society (Among Those Present)
• 1921: A Sailor-Made Man
• 1922: Grandmother's Favorite (Grandma's Boy)
• 1922: Dr. Jack (Dr. Jack)
• 1923: Skyscrapers of all places! (Safety load!)
• 1923: 1000: 1 = Harold Lloyd (Why Worry?)
• 1924: Girl Shy (Girl Shy)
• 1924: Harold's dear mother-in-law (Hot Water)
• 1925: The Freshman (The Freshman)
• 1926: For heaven's sake (For Heaven's Sake)
• 1927: Harold the Unlucky (The Kid Brother)
• 1928: Go - Harold - go (Speedy)
• 1929: The Dragon Slayer (Welcome Danger)
• 1930: The Dream Dancer (Feet First)
• 1930: Laurel and Hardy: Without Fear and Blame (The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case)
• 1930: Harold, hold on! (Feet First)
• 1931: What a Bozo!
• 1931: The Pajama Party
• 1932: Dick and Doof in the ring (The Chimp)
• 1932: The grueling piano transport (The Music Box)
• 1932: Movie Crazy (Movie Crazy)
• 1933: The Rummy
• 1934: Harold Lloyd, the straw man (The Cat's Paw)
• 1935: We're from the Scottish Infantry Regiment (Bonnie Scotland)
• 1936: Night Cargo
• 1936: General Spanky
• 1936: The girl from the Bohemian Forest (The Bohemian Girl)
• 1937: Two rode to Texas (Way Out West)
• 1939: See Your Doctor
• 1940: Quicker'n a Wink
• 1941: Third Dimension Murder
• 1942: Victory Quiz
• 1942: Don't Lie
• 1943: My Tomato
• 1943: Laurel and Hardy - Terror of All Spies (Air Raid Wardens)
• 1944: Adventure in Music
• 1944: Gentle Annie
• 1945: badminton
• 1947: A Really Important Person
• 1952: Reducing

Web links

• Walter Lundin in the Internet Movie Database (English)