Name Merritt Gerstad | Role Cinematographer | |
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Died March 1, 1974, Laguna Beach, California, United States Movies Freaks, A Night at the Opera, The Unknown, London After Midnight, Watch on the Rhine Similar People Henry Victor, Roscoe Ates, Rose Dione, Leila Hyams, Walter Woolf King | ||
Merritt B. Gerstad (5 July 1900, Chicago, Illinois – 1 March 1974, Laguna Beach, California) was an American cinematographer of silent and early sound films.
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Career
After beginning as a cinematographer on films for Universal, he worked for MGM, working with director Tod Browning on (the lost) London After Midnight (1927) and Freaks (1932), and Sam Wood on the Marx Brothers A Night at the Opera (1935). Later he was at Warner Bros. for Watch on the Rhine (1943) starring Bette Davis, Conflict (1945) with Humphrey Bogart in the lead, and the Gershwin biopic Rhapsody in Blue (1945), his last credit.
Selected filmography
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