Biografía y filmografía

Karl Freund

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Karl W. Freund, A.S.C. (January 16, 1890-May 3, 1969) was a cinematographer and film director. Born in Dvůr Králové (Königinhof), Bohemia, his career began in 1905 when, at age 15, he got a job as an assistant projectionist for a film company in Berlin where his family moved in 1901. He worked as a cinematographer on over 100 films, including the German Expressionist films The Golem (1920), The Last Laugh (1924) and Metropolis (1927). Freund emigrated to the United States in 1929 where he continued to shoot well remembered films such as Dracula (1931) and Key Largo (1948). He won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for The Good Earth (1937).

In 1937, he went to Germany to bring his only daughter, Gerda Maria Freund, back to the United States, saving her from almost certain death in the concentration camps. Karl's ex-wife, Susette Freund (née Liepmannssohn), remained in Germany where she was interned at the Ravensbrück concentration camp and eventually taken in March, 1942 to Bernburg Euthanasia Center where she was murdered.

Between 1921 and 1935, Freund also directed ten films, of which the best known are probably The Mummy (1932) starring Boris Karloff, and his last film as director, Mad Love (1935) starring Peter Lorre. Freund's only known film as an actor is Carl Dreyer's Michael (1924) in which he has a cameo as a sycophantic art dealer who saves the tobacco ashes dropped by a famous painter. At the beginning of the 1950s, he was persuaded by Desi Arnaz at Desilu to be the cinematographer in 1951 for the televisions series I Love Lucy. Critics have credited Freund for the show's lustrous black and white cinematography, but more importantly, Freund designed the "flat lighting" system for shooting sitcoms that is still in use today. This system covers the set in light, thus eliminating shadows and allowing the use of three moving cameras without having to modify the lighting in-between shots. And where Freund did not invent the three camera shooting system, he did perfect it for use with film cameras in front of a live audience. Freund and his production team also worked on other sitcoms produced at/through Desilu such as "Our Miss Brooks".

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Fotos

Películas (137)

The Golem

1960 · Director of Photography

I Love Lucy: The Movie

1953 · Director of Photography

Bright Leaf

1950 · Director of Photography

Montana

1950 · Director of Photography

South of St. Louis

1949 · Director of Photography

The Decision of Christopher Blake

1948 · Director of Photography

Key Largo

1948 · Director of Photography

Wallflower

1948 · Director of Photography

That Hagen Girl

1947 · Director of Photography

This Time for Keeps

1947 · Director of Photography

Undercurrent

1946 · Director of Photography

A Letter for Evie

1946 · Director of Photography

Two Smart People

1946 · Director of Photography

Dangerous Partners

1945 · Director of Photography

Without Love

1945 · Director of Photography

The Thin Man Goes Home

1944 · Director of Photography

The Seventh Cross

1944 · Director of Photography

A Guy Named Joe

1944 · Director of Photography

Cry 'Havoc'

1943 · Director of Photography

Du Barry Was a Lady

1943 · Director of Photography

A Yank at Eton

1942 · Director of Photography

The War Against Mrs. Hadley

1942 · Director of Photography

The Affairs of Martha

1942 · Director of Photography

Tortilla Flat

1942 · Director of Photography

The Chocolate Soldier

1941 · Director of Photography

Blossoms in the Dust

1941 · Director of Photography

You Can't Fool a Camera

1941 · Himself

Comrade X

1940 · Camera Operator

Pride and Prejudice

1940 · Director of Photography

We Who Are Young

1940 · Director of Photography

Florian

1940 · Director of Photography

Green Hell

1940 · Director of Photography

The Earl of Chicago

1940 · Director of Photography

Balalaika

1939 · Director of Photography

Barricade

1939 · Director of Photography

Golden Boy

1939 · Director of Photography

Rose of Washington Square

1939 · Director of Photography

Tail Spin

1939 · Director of Photography

Letter of Introduction

1938 · Director of Photography

Port of Seven Seas

1938 · Director of Photography

Three Comrades

1938 · Director of Photography

Man-Proof

1938 · Director of Photography

Conquest

1937 · Director of Photography

Parnell

1937 · Director of Photography

The Good Earth

1937 · Director of Photography

Camille

1936 · Director of Photography

The Great Ziegfeld

1936 · Director of Photography

Mad Love

1935 · Director

Gift of Gab

1934 · Director

I Give My Love

1934 · Director

Uncertain Lady

1934 · Director

The Countess of Monte Cristo

1934 · Director

Madame Spy

1934 · Director

Moonlight and Pretzels

1933 · Director

The Kiss Before the Mirror

1933 · Director of Photography

The Mummy

1932 · Director

Afraid to Talk

1932 · Director of Photography

Air Mail

1932 · Director of Photography

Back Street

1932 · Director of Photography

Scandal for Sale

1932 · Director of Photography

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1932 · Director of Photography

Strictly Dishonorable

1931 · Director of Photography

Personal Maid

1931 · Director of Photography

Up for Murder

1931 · Director of Photography

The Bad Sister

1931 · Director of Photography

Dracula

1931 · Director of Photography, Co-Director

The Boudoir Diplomat

1930 · Director of Photography

The Lottery Bride

1930 · Director of Photography

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930 · Director of Photography

Sleeping Partners

1930 · Director of Photography

Fräulein Else

1929 · Director of Photography

A Knight in London

1928 · Director of Photography

Lady Juan

1928 · Director of Photography

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

1927 · Producer, Director of Photography

Metropolis

1927 · Director of Photography, Camera Operator

Madame Wants No Children

1926 · Producer

Adventures of a Ten Mark Note

1926 · Production Supervisor

Manon Lescaut

1926 · Director of Photography

Tartuffe

1926 · Director of Photography

Variety

1925 · Director of Photography

The Last Laugh

1924 · Director of Photography

Michael

1924 · LeBlanc - Art Dealer, Director of Photography

The Finances of the Grand Duke

1924 · Director of Photography

The Expulsion

1923 · Director of Photography

The Tiger of the Farini Circus

1923 · Director of Photography

Herzog Ferrantes Ende

1922 · Director of Photography

Lucrezia Borgia

1922 · Director of Photography

The Burning Soil

1922 · Director of Photography

Marizza

1922 · Director of Photography

Das blinde Glück

1922 · Director of Photography

Torgus

1921 · Director of Photography

The Rats

1921 · Director of Photography

The Boy in Blue

1921 · Director of Photography

The Lost Shadow

1921 · Director of Photography

The Golem: How He Came into the World

1920 · Director of Photography

Catherine the Great

1920 · Cinematography

Panic in the House of Ardon

1920 · Director of Photography

The Head of Janus

1920 · Director of Photography

The Hunchback and the Dancer

1920 · Director of Photography

Die Nacht auf Goldenhall

1920 · Director of Photography

The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship

1920 · Director of Photography

Satan

1920 · Director of Photography

The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea

1919 · Director of Photography

Die Arche. 2. Teil: Die letzten Menschen

1919 · Director of Photography

The Arc

1919 · Director of Photography

Intoxication

1919 · Director of Photography

Eyes

1919 · Cinematography, Camera Department Manager