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Curt Courant(1899-1968)

  • Cinematographer
  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • Director
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Curt Courant
Curt Courant was born on 11 May 1899 in Berlin, Germany. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Woman in the Moon (1929), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) and Kameraden (1921). He died on 20 April 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
BornMay 11, 1899
DiedApril 20, 1968(68)
BornMay 11, 1899
DiedApril 20, 1968(68)
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Curt Courant and John Halliday in Perfect Understanding (1933)

Known for

Woman in the Moon (1929)
Woman in the Moon
7.3
  • Cinematographer
  • 1929
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The Man Who Knew Too Much
6.7
  • Cinematographer(photography)
  • 1934
Kameraden
  • Director
  • 1921
Cicely Courtneidge, Ivor McLaren, Cecil Parker, and Tom Walls in Me and Marlborough (1935)
Me and Marlborough
5.8
  • Cinematographer(as C. Courant, photography)
  • 1935

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Cinematographer

  • Jayne Mansfield in It Happened in Athens (1962)
    It Happened in Athens
    • (as Curtis Courant)
  • Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
    Monsieur Verdoux
    • (uncredited)
  • Edwige Feuillère and John Lodge in De Mayerling à Sarajevo (1940)
    De Mayerling à Sarajevo
  • Charles Boyer in Le corsaire (1939)
    Le corsaire
  • Monsieur Brotonneau (1939)
    Monsieur Brotonneau
  • Jean Gabin in Le Jour Se Leve (1939)
    Le Jour Se Leve
    • (uncredited)
  • Louise (1939)
    Louise
  • La Bête Humaine (1938)
    La Bête Humaine
  • Lumières de Paris (1938)
    Lumières de Paris
  • Louis Jouvet and Christl Mardayn in The Shanghai Drama (1938)
    The Shanghai Drama
  • Louis Jouvet and Viviane Romance in Sirocco (1938)
    Sirocco
  • La principessa Tarakanova (1938)
    La principessa Tarakanova
  • Le puritain (1938)
    Le puritain
  • The Lie of Nina Petrovna (1937)
    The Lie of Nina Petrovna
  • The Man in the Mirror (1936)
    The Man in the Mirror
    • (photography)

Camera and Electrical Department

  • The Man in the Mirror (1936)
    The Man in the Mirror
  • Hideout in the Alps (1936)
    Hideout in the Alps
  • Francis Lederer and Käthe von Nagy in Her Majesty Love (1931)
    Her Majesty Love

Director

  • Kameraden

Personal details

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    • May 11, 1899
    • Berlin, Germany
    • April 20, 1968
    • Los Angeles, California, USA

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    Prolific German cinematographer of Jewish ancestry, a soft focus specialist. In films from 1916, he was forced to leave Germany after the Nazis took power in 1933. He then worked in Britain and France, where he did his best work on La Bête Humaine (1938) and Le Jour Se Leve (1939). After the fall of France in 1940, he moved to Hollywood, but found little work.

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