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Karl Freund

AKA: Carl Freund
Birthday: 1890-01-16
Died: 1969-05-03
Birthplace: Königinhof, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic]


​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.

Filmography

Michael
Character: LeBlanc - Art Dealer
You Can't Fool a Camera
Character: Himself
Metropolis
Job: Director of Photography

Dracula
Job: Director of Photography
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Job: Director of Photography

The Golem: How He Came Into the World
Job: Director of Photography
The Head of Janus
Job: Director of Photography

Pride and Prejudice
Job: Director of Photography
Key Largo
Job: Director of Photography
The Last Laugh
Job: Director of Photography

Manon Lescaut
Job: Director of Photography
Without Love
Job: Director of Photography
Mad Love
Job: Director

Die Heimkehr des Odysseus
Job: Director of Photography
The Mummy
Job: Director
Golden Boy
Job: Director of Photography

Undercurrent
Job: Director of Photography
South of St. Louis
Job: Director of Photography
The Seventh Cross
Job: Director of Photography

The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Job: Director of Photography
Gefangene Seele
Job: Director of Photography
Bright Leaf
Job: Director of Photography

Two Smart People
Job: Director of Photography
Moonlight and Pretzels
Job: Director
Dangerous Partners
Job: Director of Photography

Gift of Gab
Job: Director
Balalaika
Job: Director of Photography
A Letter for Evie
Job: Director of Photography

A Knight in London
Job: Director of Photography
Up for Murder
Job: Director of Photography
Zapata's Gang
Job: Director of Photography

Port of Seven Seas
Job: Director of Photography
The Kiss Before the Mirror
Job: Director of Photography
Conquest
Job: Director of Photography

Rose of Washington Square
Job: Director of Photography
Letter of Introduction
Job: Director of Photography
Tail Spin
Job: Director of Photography

Green Hell
Job: Director of Photography
Little Angel
Job: Director of Photography
Camille
Job: Director of Photography

Herzog Ferrantes Ende
Job: Director of Photography
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Job: Director of Photography
Tortilla Flat
Job: Director of Photography

A Guy Named Joe
Job: Director of Photography
The Finances of the Grand Duke
Job: Director of Photography
Tartuffe
Job: Director of Photography

The Great Ziegfeld
Job: Director of Photography
Poor Mother
Job: Director of Photography
The War Against Mrs. Hadley
Job: Director of Photography

That Hagen Girl
Job: Director of Photography
This Time for Keeps
Job: Director of Photography
I Love Lucy: The Movie
Job: Director of Photography

The Earl of Chicago
Job: Director of Photography
The Affairs of Martha
Job: Director of Photography
Lady Juan
Job: Director of Photography

Three Comrades
Job: Director of Photography
The White Roses
Job: Director of Photography
The Lottery Bride
Job: Director of Photography

Der Tiger des Zirkus Farini
Job: Director of Photography
Scandal for Sale
Job: Director of Photography
All Quiet on the Western Front
Job: Director of Photography

The Boudoir Diplomat
Job: Director of Photography
Der verlorene Schatten
Job: Director of Photography
Barricade
Job: Director of Photography

Afraid to Talk
Job: Director of Photography
Air Mail
Job: Director of Photography
Personal Maid
Job: Director of Photography

The Rats
Job: Director of Photography
A Yank at Eton
Job: Director of Photography
Das blinde Glück
Job: Director of Photography

The Chocolate Soldier
Job: Director of Photography
The Decision of Christopher Blake
Job: Director of Photography
The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
Job: Director of Photography

Variety
Job: Director of Photography
Man-Proof
Job: Director of Photography
We Who Are Young
Job: Director of Photography

Augen
Job: Cinematography
Augen
Job: Camera Department Manager
Dracula
Job: Co-Director

Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
Job: Production Supervisor
Madame Spy
Job: Director
Florian
Job: Director of Photography

Catherine the Great
Job: Cinematography
The Burning Soil
Job: Director of Photography
Wallflower
Job: Director of Photography

Agnes Arnau und ihre drei Freier
Job: Director of Photography
Sleeping Partners
Job: Director of Photography

Michael
Job: Director of Photography
Blossoms in the Dust
Job: Director of Photography
Metropolis
Job: Camera Operator

Phantome des Lebens
Job: Director of Photography
The Good Earth
Job: Director of Photography
Montana
Job: Director of Photography

The Expulsion
Job: Director of Photography
Strictly Dishonorable
Job: Director of Photography
Back Street
Job: Director of Photography

Comrade X
Job: Camera Operator
Torgus
Job: Director of Photography

Cry 'Havoc'
Job: Director of Photography
The Bad Sister
Job: Director of Photography
The Boy in Blue
Job: Director of Photography

Fräulein Else
Job: Director of Photography
Die Arche. 2. Teil: Die letzten Menschen
Job: Director of Photography
The Arc
Job: Director of Photography

Little Angel's Wedding
Job: Camera Operator
The Giant's Fist
Job: Director of Photography
Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell
Job: Director of Photography

I Give My Love
Job: Director
Die blaue Laterne
Job: Director of Photography
The Hunchback and the Dancer
Job: Director of Photography

Intoxication
Job: Director of Photography
Panic in the House of Ardon
Job: Director of Photography
A Venetian Night
Job: Director of Photography

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Job: Director of Photography
The Suffragette
Job: Director of Photography
The Film Prima Donna
Job: Director of Photography

Countess Kitchenmaid
Job: Director of Photography
Parnell
Job: Director of Photography
Der Liebesbrief der Königin
Job: Director of Photography

Das wandernde Licht
Job: Director of Photography
Du Barry Was a Lady
Job: Director of Photography
Lucrezia Borgia
Job: Director of Photography

Frau Eva
Job: Director of Photography
The Man in the Mirror
Job: Director of Photography
The Robber Bride
Job: Director of Photography

Bummelstudenten
Job: Director of Photography
Die Claudi vom Geiserhof
Job: Director of Photography
Satan
Job: Director of Photography

Marizza
Job: Director of Photography
Auf Probe gestellt
Job: Director of Photography
Das Feuer
Job: Writer

The Thin Man Goes Home
Job: Director of Photography
Das Geschlecht derer von Ringwall
Job: Director of Photography
Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach
Job: Director of Photography

Christa Hartungen
Job: Director of Photography
Das Maskenfest des Lebens
Job: Director of Photography
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
Job: Director of Photography

The Golem
Job: Director of Photography