About

Known credits:
57
Birthday:
1900-07-05
Place of birth:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Website:
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Merritt B. Gerstad

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Merritt B. Gerstad (5 July 1900, Chicago, Illinois – 1 March 1974, Laguna Beach, California) was an American cinematographer of silent and early sound films.

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.

Known for

Camera
1945 Rhapsody in Blue Camera Additional Photography 59
Average
1945 Conflict Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1943 Watch on the Rhine Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1942 Night in New Orleans Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1941 Tom, Dick and Harry Camera Director of Photography 58
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1940 The House Across the Bay Camera Director of Photography 58
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1940 Andy Hardy's Dilemma: A Lesson in Mathematics... and Other Things Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1939 Slightly Honorable Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1939 Eternally Yours Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1939 Winter Carnival Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1939 Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1937 She Married an Artist Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1937 Souls at Sea Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1937 Seventh Heaven Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1936 The Magnificent Brute Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1936 The Luckiest Girl in the World Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1936 One Rainy Afternoon Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1936 The Great Ziegfeld Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1936 Strike Me Pink Camera Director of Photography 58
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1935 A Night at the Opera Camera Director of Photography 66
Fair
1934 Imitation of Life Camera Director of Photography 60
Fair
1934 Social Register Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1934 Beloved Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1933 Only Yesterday Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1933 The Mayor of Hell Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1933 The Secret of Madame Blanche Camera Director of Photography 58
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1933 Goldie Gets Along Camera Director of Photography 58
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1932 Payment Deferred Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1932 Strange Justice Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1932 Night World Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1932 Freaks Camera Director of Photography 72
Good
1931 Flying High Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1931 Guilty Hands Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1931 The Great Lover Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1931 Never the Twain Shall Meet Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1931 Daybreak Camera Director of Photography 58
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1930 Remote Control Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1930 Those Three French Girls Camera Director of Photography 58
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1930 Call of the Flesh Camera Director of Photography 58
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1930 Our Blushing Brides Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1930 Every Woman's Longing Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1930 A Lady to Love Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1929 Devil-May-Care Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1929 Navy Blues Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1929 The Thirteenth Chair Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1929 A Man's Man Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1929 The Bridge of San Luis Rey Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1927 London After Midnight Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1927 Mockery Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1927 The Unknown Camera Director of Photography 63
Fair
1926 The Ice Flood Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1925 The Mad Whirl Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1924 The Man from Wyoming Camera Director of Photography N/A
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Crew
1935 The Daring Young Man Crew Cinematography N/A
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1931 Gentleman's Fate Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1929 Tide of Empire Crew Cinematography 58
Average
1924 The Phantom Horseman Crew Cinematography N/A
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