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Karl Freund

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  • 1890 - 1969

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Karl Freund, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Birthday: 1890-01-16

Born At: Königinhof, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic]

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Michael
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Metropolis
19
Dracula
138
Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt
222
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam
2972
Der Januskopf
3015
Der letzte Mann
5991
Manon Lescaut
6131
Key Largo
11016
The Mummy
15849
Mad Love
28261
Conquest
30630
The Great Ziegfeld
43277
A Guy Named Joe
43306
Golden Boy
43529
Rose of Washington Square
43834
Camille
43874
Undercurrent
44098
Tail Spin
45112
Die Finanzen des Großherzogs
55536
Herr Tartüff
55544
Der brennende Acker
55549
Michael
55587
Cry 'Havoc'
72103
Tortilla Flat
79372
Bright Leaf
83116
Blossoms in the Dust
84087
Two Smart People
87939
Die Spinnen, 1. Teil - Der Goldene See
91893
Die Spinnen, 2. Teil - Das Brillantenschiff
92332
Varieté
94803
Letter of Introduction
103197
Back Street
109197
Three Comrades
109970
Dangerous Partners
110473
The Earl of Chicago
116007
Montana
121707
Die Suffragette
125011
Moonlight and Pretzels
125428
Balalaika
127570
Green Hell
139775
Port of Seven Seas
139780
The Kiss Before the Mirror
139805
The Decision of Christopher Blake
148304
The Bad Sister
156322
Up for Murder
162572
Engelein
163195
Strictly Dishonorable
164272
Wallflower
173645
Marizza, genannt die Schmuggler-Madonna
175522
Gift of Gab
180924
Fräulein Else
190259
Die Filmprimadonna
191981
Man-Proof
213443
Florian
226482
A Letter for Evie
227717
Parnell
249799
Eine Nacht In London
269762
Zapatas Bande
269815
Eine venezianische Nacht
275025
We Who Are Young
394768
Madame Spy
415274
Der Mann im Spiegel
426592
Das wandernde Licht
426600
Die Räuberbraut
426602
Frau Eva
426713
Der Liebesbrief der Königin
426720
Gräfin Küchenfee
426728
Der Schrecken im Hause Ardon
426733
Der Schrecken im Hause Ardon
426742
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