Eric Cross (cinematographer)
Eric Cross ( born May 31, 1902 in London Hendon as Eric Leon D. Cross, † March 1, 2004 in Hillingdon, Middlesex County ) was a British cinematographer.
Life
Eric Leon Cross had received his training at Coopers in Dunstable (north of London), and as a still photographer debuts in film. 1927/1928 he was GDP and " Elstree " Chef of the current state of photography departments before he started in 1929 to work as a cameraman for the production companies.
Over the next three decades photographed Cross for entertainment films. During the Second World War it was used by the film company " Two Cities " producer Sydney Box. Cross worked throughout his career along with a number of well-known directors, including Philip Leacock, Roy Ward Baker, John Boulting and Ken Annakin. This was primarily a dramatic fabrics.
In the second half of the 1950s Cross also photographed the international, English-language film debut of Germany's former young stars Hardy Kruger - the war film One came through - and Horst Buchholz - the crime drama Tiger Bay.
Shortly before his retirement in the early 1960s brought the Austrian Remigrant John Olden Eric Cross to Hamburg for two of its television productions ( Waldhausenstraße 20 and Look Homeward, Angel, the latter with Olden's wife Inge Meysel in the lead role ).
Cross died at 102 years of age.