Franz Planer
Franz planner ( born March 29, 1894 in Karlsbad, Austria - Hungary, † January 10, 1963 in Hollywood, California ) was an Austrian cinematographer.
Life
Franz planners trained as a photographer in Vienna, as which he worked from 1910. At the same time, he began to turn for newsreel reports in Vienna and Paris. From 1920 he worked mainly in Germany, first as director of photography for the Emelka in Munich. After completion of Murnau's film The finances of the Grand Duke, together with Karl Freund on the Adriatic Sea and in Berlin studio, he moved to Berlin. He turned for the time being mediocre entertainment films, but received at the beginning of the sound film, orders for more demanding productions. For example, for Wilhelm Thiele's operetta film The Three out of the gas station ( 1930). 1933, after the Nazi seizure of power in Germany, he returned with his Jewish wife to Vienna. He frequently turned to also emigrated German filmmakers such as Max Ophuls on. But he also photographed for some Austrian film productions, including the few masterpieces like My songs beckon softly (1933 ), opera Ring (1936 ) or masquerade by Willi Forst ( 1934). He was regarded as the best Austrian cinematographer of the 1930s. Occasionally, he continued to work in German studios, about 1937 Capriolen in the Tobis - Atelier Berlin -Johannisthal for Gustav Gründgens.
In 1937 he emigrated to the United States, where he was hired by the Columbia and was also known as Frank planner. His first film in the U.S. was Holiday by George Cukor. As a result, it studio films of all genres have been transferred. He worked regularly in films of directors Sidney Salkow, Jason Leigh and Charles Barton. 1945 ran from his Columbia contract. From then he worked mainly with other European emigrants together, as the producer Seymour Nebenzahl and the directors Edgar G. Ulmer (Her Sister 's Secret, 1946), Robert Siodmak ( Consenting Alibi, 1948) and Max Ophüls ( Stefan Zweig adaptation Letter from an Unknown Woman, 1947/1948 ). More were Curtis Bernhardt and Anatole Litvak, with whom he had previously collaborated in the 30s.
Planner's films were often photographed on location and were characterized by a hard, black and white, documentary style. From the 1950s, he also shot in color. Franz planner has been nominated a total of five times for an Oscar, most recently in 1961, but did not win a single time. His last completed film was The Children's Hour in the same year.
Filmography (selection)
Oscar nominations
- Best Cinematography (Black and White ) 1950: Between Women and ropes
- Best Cinematography (Black and White ) 1952: Death of a Salesman
- Best Cinematography (Black and White ) 1954: A heart and a crown
- Best Cinematography (Color) 1960: Nun's Story
- Best Cinematography (Black and White ) 1962: The Children's Hour