Richard Angst (23 July 1905 – 24 July 1984) was a Swiss

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who worked on more than ninety films during his career, most of them in Germany. Angst emerged as a leading photographer of mountain films during the

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. He often worked with the director

Arnold Fanck Arnold Fanck (6 March 1889 – 28 September 1974) was a German film director and pioneer of the mountain film genre. He is best known for the extraordinary alpine footage he captured in such films as '' The Holy Mountain'' (1926), '' The White H ...

, and accompanied him in 1937 for '' The New Earth'' his troubled 1937 co-production with

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. While he worked on some

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propaganda films such as '' My Life for Ireland'', many of the films he was employed on during the era were less political.Reimer & Reimer p.40 After the

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, he worked regularly in German commercial cinema often at

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. He was the cinematographer for

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's '' The Indian Tomb'' and '' The Tiger of Eschnapur'' (both 1959).

Selected filmography

* '' Milak, the Greenland Hunter '' (1928) * '' The White Hell of Pitz Palu'' (1929) * '' Two People'' (1930) * '' White Ecstasy'' (1931) * '' S.O.S. Iceberg'' (1933) * ''

The Burning Secret ''The Burning Secret'' () is a 1933 Austrian-German drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Alfred Abel, Hilde Wagener and Hans Joachim Schaufuß. It was based on the 1913 novella of the same title by Stefan Zweig. It was released ...

'' (1933) * '' White Majesty'' (1934) * '' Forbidden Territory'' (1934) * '' North Pole, Ahoy'' (1934) * '' The Champion of Pontresina'' (1934) * '' Demon of the Himalayas'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1937) * '' The Vulture Wally'' (1940) * '' My Life for Ireland'' (1941) * ''

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'' (1942) * '' Melody of a Great City'' (1943) * ''

Gabriele Dambrone ''Gabriele Dambrone'' is a 1943 German drama film directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Gusti Huber, Siegfried Breuer and Christl Mardayn.Rentschler p. 262 It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. Location shooting took place in Vienn ...

'' (1943) * ''

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'' (1944) * ''

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'' (1947) * '' Ulli and Marei'' (1948) * '' A Kingdom For a Horse'' (1949) * '' The White Hell of Pitz Palu'' (1950) * '' Fanfares of Love'' (1951) * '' Storm Over Tibet'' (1952) * '' Father Needs a Wife'' (1952) * '' Cuba Cabana'' (1952) * '' Hit Parade'' (1953) * '' Hocuspocus'' (1953) * '' The First Kiss'' (1954) * '' Three Men in the Snow'' (1955) * '' The Last Man'' (1955) * '' I Often Think of Piroschka'' (1955) * '' The Spessart Inn'' (1958) * '' La Paloma'' (1959) * ''

Peter Shoots Down the Bird ''Peter Shoots Down the Bird'' () is a 1959 West German comedy film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Peter Alexander, Germaine Damar and Maria Sebaldt. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by ...

'' (1959) * '' The Good Soldier Schweik'' (1960) * '' The Strange Countess'' (1961) * '' Ramona'' (1961) * '' Via Mala'' (1961) * ''

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace ''Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace'' () is a 1962 mystery film directed by Terence Fisher and written by Curt Siodmak, based on the characters Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson created by Arthur Conan Doyle. It stars Christopher Lee as Holm ...

'' (1962) * '' Axel Munthe, The Doctor of San Michele'' (1962) * '' The Black Abbot'' (1963) * ''

Breakfast in Bed "Breakfast in Bed" is a soul–R&B song written by Muscle Shoals songwriters Eddie Hinton and Donnie Fritts for Dusty Springfield. It takes a knowing spin on the line " You Don't Have to Say You Love Me", the title of a song that had previousl ...

'' (1963) * '' The Phantom of Soho'' (1964) * ''

The Seventh Victim ''The Seventh Victim'' is a 1943 American horror film directed by Mark Robson and starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, and Kim Hunter. Written by Charles O'Neal and DeWitt Bodeen, and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictu ...

'' (1964) * '' The Dirty Game'' (1965) * '' A Holiday with Piroschka'' (1965) * ''

Praetorius Praetorius, Prätorius, Prætorius was the name of several musicians and scholars in Germany. In 16th and 17th century Germany it became a fashion for educated people named "Schulze," "Schultheiß," or "Richter (disambiguation), Richter" (which mea ...

'' (1965) * '' Liselotte of the Palatinate'' (1966) * '' The Wedding Trip'' (1969)

References

Bibliography

* High, Peter B. ''The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945''. University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. * Reimer, Robert C. & Reimer, Carol J. ''The A to Z of German Cinema''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.

External links

* 1905 births 1984 deaths Swiss cinematographers Swiss collaborators with Nazi Germany Film people from Zurich {{Switzerland-bio-stub