Charles Rosher

Cameraman + Photographer

Male

Born Nov 17, 1885

Hometown London

Died Jan 15, 1974

Death Place Portugal

Charles Rosher, A.S.C. was a two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer who worked from the early days of silent films through the 1950s. Born in London, he was the first cinematographer to receive an Academy Award, along with 1929 co-winner Karl… Read More

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Anna May Wong
Dated 1927

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Joan Marsh, 85, A Movie Star In Two Eras
NYTimes - Aug 25, 2000

Joan Marsh, who made her film debut when she was 9 months old, played children's roles in silent films opposite Mary Pickford and returned to the screen in the 1930's and 40's as a glamorous blonde, died on Aug. 10 in Ojai, Calif. She was 85. She was born Dorothy Rosher in Porterville, Calif., and grew up in Hollywood. Her father was the
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Review/Film; Bungling As A Fine Art
NYTimes - Mar 11, 1989

LEAD: Devotees of the five previous installments of the endless ''Police Academy'' series will probably like this new one. It has a few good gags and the same energetic, spirited silliness of its predecessors. But if you have found the others to be more predictable than clever, this new one, subtitled ''City Under Devotees of the five previous
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Going Out Guide
NYTimes - Aug 05, 1986

SUMMER'S TREAT Beginning today Lincoln Center's annual alfresco melange, the four-week long Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, pours forth its free cornucopia of performance arts from acrobatics to opera. These activities usually take place in either the fountain plaza facing Broadway and 64th Street or in Damrosch Park. On this first day three
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The Screen: 'Independence Day'
NYTimes - Jan 21, 1983

THERE are times when you can tell everything you need to know about a film in the first few moments. Here is the way ''Independence Day'' begins with a lyric: Around us in everything we see Some are real and some are fantasy. Then we meet the heroine. Mary Ann Taylor (Kathleen Quinlan) is chasing through a small Southwestern town, taking pictures.
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1885 Birth Born on November 17, 1885.

TWENTIES

1909 23 Years Old Rosher studied photography in his youth but earned a reputation early as a newsreel cameraman, before moving to the United States in 1909. … Read More

1911 25 Years Old Because early film was largely restricted to using daylight, Horsley relocated his production company to Hollywood in 1911, taking Rosher with him, and opened the first movie studio there. … Read More

1913 27 Years Old In 1913 he went to Mexico to film newsreel footage of Pancho Villa's rebellion.

THIRTIES

1918 32 Years Old In 1918, he was one of the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers and served as the group's first Vice-President. … Read More

FORTIES

1927 41 Years Old His work with Karl Struss on F.W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise is viewed as a milestone in cinematography. … Read More

1929 43 Years Old … Born in London, he was the first cinematographer to receive an Academy Award, along with 1929 co-winner Karl Struss.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1974 88 Years Old Died on January 15, 1974.

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