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Fred Sersen (1890–1962)

Special Effects | Visual Effects | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Ferdinand Motodei Sersen
in Vaseli, Czechoslovakia

Died:

(age 72) in Los Angeles, California, USA
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1954 King Richard and the Crusaders (special photographic effects)
 
1953 The Farmer Takes a Wife (special photographic effects - uncredited)
 
1953 Down Among the Sheltering Palms (special photographic effects)
 
1952 Lydia Bailey (special photographic effects)
 
1952 The Pride of St. Louis (special photographic effects)
 
1952 With a Song in My Heart (special photographic effects)
 
1952 5 Fingers (special effects - uncredited)
 
1952 Viva Zapata! (special photographic effects)
 
1952 Red Skies of Montana (special photographic effects)
 
1951 The Model and the Marriage Broker (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Elopement (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Golden Girl (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Let's Make It Legal (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Anne of the Indies (special photographic effects)
 
1951 The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Love Nest (special photographic effects)
 
1951 People Will Talk (special photographic effects)
 
1951 The Guy Who Came Back (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Meet Me After the Show (special photographic effects)
 
1951 David and Bathsheba (special photographic effects)
 
1951 The Secret of Convict Lake (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Take Care of My Little Girl (special photographic effects)
 
1951 As Young as You Feel (special photographic effects)
 
1951 The Frogmen (special photographic effects)
 
1951 On the Riviera (special photographic effects)
 
1951 The House on Telegraph Hill (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Half Angel (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Follow the Sun (special photographic effects)
 
1951 I Can Get It for You Wholesale (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Rawhide (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Bird of Paradise (special effects)
 
1951 I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (special effects)
 
1951 Call Me Mister (special photographic effects)
 
1951 The 13th Letter (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Halls of Montezuma (special photographic effects)
 
1950 For Heaven's Sake (special effects)
 
1950 American Guerrilla in the Philippines (special photographic effects)
 
1950 The Jackpot (special effects)
 
1950 All About Eve (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Two Flags West (special effects)
 
1950 I'll Get By (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Mister 880 (special photographic effects)
 
1950 No Way Out (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Broken Arrow (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Stella (special effects)
 
1950 Where the Sidewalk Ends (special photographic effects)
 
1950 The Gunfighter (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Panic in the Streets (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Love That Brute (special effects)
 
1950 The Big Lift (special photographic effects)
 
1950 A Ticket to Tomahawk (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Cheaper by the Dozen (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Wabash Avenue (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Under My Skin (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Mother Didn't Tell Me (special photographic effects)
 
1950 Three Came Home (special photographic effects)
 
1950 When Willie Comes Marching Home (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Twelve O'Clock High (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Dancing in the Dark (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Whirlpool (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Oh, You Beautiful Doll (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Prince of Foxes (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Everybody Does It (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Father Was a Fullback (special effects)
 
1949 Pinky (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Thieves' Highway (special photographic effects)
 
1949 I Was a Male War Bride (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Sand (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Come to the Stable (special photographic effects)
 
1949 House of Strangers (special photographic effects)
 
1949 You're My Everything (special photographic effects)
 
1949 It Happens Every Spring (special photographic effects)
 
1949 The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (special effects)
 
1949 The Fan (special effects)
 
1949 Mother Is a Freshman (special photographic effects)
 
1949 A Letter to Three Wives (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Chicken Every Sunday (special effects)
 
1948 Yellow Sky (special photographic effects)
 
1948 That Wonderful Urge (special photographic effects)
 
1948 When My Baby Smiles at Me (special effects)
 
1948 Unfaithfully Yours (special photographic effects)
 
1948 The Snake Pit (special photographic effects)
 
1948 Apartment for Peggy (special photographic effects)
 
1948 Cry of the City (special photographic effects)
 
1948 Road House (special photographic effects)
 
1948 The Luck of the Irish (special effects)
 
1948 That Lady in Ermine (special photographic effects)
 
1948 The Walls of Jericho (special effects)
 
1948 Deep Waters (special effects)
 
1948 The Street with No Name (special photographic effects)
 
1948 Give My Regards to Broadway (special effects)
 
1948 The Iron Curtain (special photographic effects)
 
1948 Fury at Furnace Creek (special photographic effects)
 
1948 Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (special photographic effects)
 
1948 Sitting Pretty (special photographic effects)
 
1948 Call Northside 777 (special photographic effects)
 
1948 You Were Meant for Me (special photographic effects)
 
1947 Captain from Castile (special photographic effects)
 
1947 Daisy Kenyon (special photographic effects)
 
1947 Gentleman's Agreement (special photographic effects)
 
1947 Forever Amber (special photographic effects)
 
1947 Nightmare Alley (special photographic effects)
 
1947 The Foxes of Harrow (special effects)
 
1947 Thunder in the Valley (special effects)
 
1947 Kiss of Death (special photographic effects)
 
1947 I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (special photographic effects)
 
1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (special photographic effects)
 
1947 Moss Rose (special photographic effects)
 
1947 Miracle on 34th Street (special photographic effects)
 
1947 The Homestretch (special photographic effects)
 
1947 Carnival in Costa Rica (special photographic effects)
 
1947 The Late George Apley (special photographic effects)
 
1947 Boomerang! (special photographic effects)
 
1947 The Brasher Doubloon (special photographic effects)
 
1947 13 Rue Madeleine (special photographic effects)
 
1947 The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Wake Up and Dream (special photographic effects)
 
1946 The Razor's Edge (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Margie (special photographic effects)
 
1946 My Darling Clementine (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Home, Sweet Homicide (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Three Little Girls in Blue (special photographic effects)
 
1946 If I'm Lucky (special photographic effects)
 
1946 It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (special effects)
 
1946 Centennial Summer (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Smoky (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Anna and the King of Siam (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Somewhere in the Night (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Do You Love Me (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Strange Triangle (special effects)
 
1946 Cluny Brown (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Dragonwyck (special photographic effects)
 
1946 The Dark Corner (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Johnny Comes Flying Home (special effects)
 
1946 Sentimental Journey (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Claudia and David (special effects)
 
1946 Behind Green Lights (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Colonel Effingham's Raid (special photographic effects)
 
1946 Shock (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Doll Face (special photographic effects)
 
1945 The Spider (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Leave Her to Heaven (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Fallen Angel (special photographic effects)
 
1945 The Dolly Sisters (special photographic effects)
 
1945 The House on 92nd Street (special photographic effects)
 
1945 State Fair (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Within These Walls (special photographic effects)
 
1945 The Caribbean Mystery (special photographic effects)
 
1945 A Bell for Adano (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Captain Eddie (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Junior Miss (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Nob Hill (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Don Juan Quilligan (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Molly and Me (special photographic effects - uncredited)
 
1945 Where Do We Go from Here? (special photographic effects)
 
1945 The Bullfighters (special photographic effects)
 
1945 The All-Star Bond Rally (short) (special effects)
 
1945 Diamond Horseshoe (special photographic effects)
 
1945 A Royal Scandal (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Thunderhead - Son of Flicka (special effects)
 
1945 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (special photographic effects)
 
1945 Hangover Square (special photographic effects)
 
1944 The Fighting Lady (documentary) (special photographic effects: maps)
 
1944 Winged Victory (special effects)
 
1944 The Keys of the Kingdom (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (special effects)
 
1944 Something for the Boys (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Irish Eyes Are Smiling (special effects)
 
1944 Laura (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Greenwich Village (special photographic effects)
 
1944 In the Meantime, Darling (special photographic effects)
 
1944 The Big Noise (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Sweet and Low-Down (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Wilson (special effects)
 
1944 Wing and a Prayer (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Take It or Leave It (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Home in Indiana (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Roger Touhy, Gangster (special effects)
 
1944 Ladies of Washington (special photographic effects)
 
1944 The Eve of St. Mark (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Bermuda Mystery (special effects)
 
1944 Pin Up Girl (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Buffalo Bill (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Tampico (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Four Jills in a Jeep (special effects)
 
1944 The Purple Heart (special photographic effects)
 
1944 The Fighting Sullivans (special photographic effects)
 
1944 The Lodger (special photographic effects)
 
1944 Lifeboat (special photographic effects)
 
1943 Jane Eyre (special photographic effects)
 
1943 The Gang's All Here (special effects)
 
1943 The Song of Bernadette (special photographic effects)
 
1943 The Dancing Masters (special photographic effects)
 
1943 Happy Land (special photographic effects)
 
1943 Guadalcanal Diary (special photographic effects)
 
1943 Paris After Dark (special effects)
 
1943 Sweet Rosie O'Grady (special effects)
 
1943 Wintertime (special photographic effects)
 
1943 Holy Matrimony (special effects)
 
1943 Heaven Can Wait (special photographic effects)
 
1943 Stormy Weather (special photographic effects)
 
1943 Bomber's Moon (special photographic effects)
 
1943 Coney Island (special photographic effects)
 
1943 Jitterbugs (special photographic effects)
 
1943 They Came to Blow Up America (special effects)
 
1943 Crash Dive (special photographic effects)
 
1943 The Moon Is Down (special effects)
 
1943 Hello Frisco, Hello (special effects)
 
1943 Claudia (special effects)
 
1942 The Black Swan (special photographic effects - uncredited)
 
1941 How Green Was My Valley (special photographic effects - uncredited)
 
1941 A Yank in the R.A.F. (special effects)
 
1940 Brigham Young (special effects)
 
1940 Little Old New York (special effects)
 
1940 The Blue Bird (special effects)
 
1939 The Rains Came (special effects scenes stager)
 
1938 Suez (special effects stager)
 
1937 In Old Chicago (special effects stager)
 
1936 Under Two Flags (special effects - uncredited)
 
1931 A Connecticut Yankee (special effects)
 
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1956 Around the World in Eighty Days (visual effects supervisor: Sersen tank - uncredited)
 
1954 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (visual effects supervisor: second unit - uncredited)
 
1951 Fixed Bayonets! (special photographic effects - uncredited)
 
1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still (special photographic effects)
 
1951 Fourteen Hours (special photographic effects)
 
1951 You're in the Navy Now (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Slattery's Hurricane (special photographic effects)
 
1949 Down to the Sea in Ships (special photographic effects)
 
1940 Young People (second unit director - uncredited)
 
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1935 Dante's Inferno (technical staff - as Fred M. Sersen)
 
Show ShowArt Department (1 title)
1930 The Big Trail (settings by)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
1940 Cavalcade of the Academy Awards (documentary short)
Himself - 1939 Oscar Winner for Special Photographic Effects
 
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