Elwood Bredell
Camera
Born 1902-12-24
Died 1969-02-26
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
54 credits
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Elwood Bailey Bredell (24 December 1902 – 26 February 1969) was an American cinematographer and child silent screen actor. He is sometimes credited as Woody Bredell or Elwood Dell. Although he worked in many genres, mostly at Universal, Bredell is best known for his film noir cinematography on such movies as Phantom Lady (1944), Lady on a Train (1945) The Killers (1946), and The Unsuspected (1947). Famed Warner Bros. editor George Amy said Bredell could “light a football stadium with a single match.”
Bredell was the son of stage actress Mary Palmer Nields. He was named Jesse B. Bredell, Jr., after his father. Nields later married Vaughn "Val" Paul, a silent film actor turned production manager. (Paul's son with Nields, Vaughn Jr., was Deanna Durbin's first husband.)
After working as an adolescent actor in silent films, Bredell took a job as a studio lab technician while he cultivated a talent for photography. From about 1929–34, Bredell worked as a still photographer at RKO and Paramount, coinciding with his stepfather's tenures at those studios. At Paramount, Bredell apprenticed under veteran cinematographers Charles Lang and Arthur C. Miller. In 1936, Val Paul brought Bredell to Universal, where he continued his training under the studio's best cinematographer, Joseph Valentine. Bredell was promoted to cinematographer the next year, when Val produced Reckless Living (1938).
Bredell's work on horror films such as Black Friday (1940), The Mummy's Hand (1940), and Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), anticipated his work in film noir. He also photographed Deann Durbin musicals and comedies such as Hold That Ghost (1941), Hellzapoppin' (1941) and The Inspector General (1949). His final credit was on the 1955 B-movie Female Jungle.
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Filmography
Other credits
47 credits
The Killers
Adventures of Don Juan
Romance on the High Seas
Snowbound
The Ghost of Frankenstein
Hold That Ghost
The Unsuspected
The Mummy's Hand
Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror
Phantom Lady
Strange Faces
The Inspector General
The Invisible Woman
Man-Made Monster
Hellzapoppin'
Black Friday
Lady on a Train
So's Your Uncle
Butch Minds the Baby
Horror Island
Christmas Holiday
Journey Into Light
Tough as They Come
Gangs of Chicago
Female Jungle
The Mystery of Marie Roget
The Amazing Mrs. Holliday
La Conga Nights
South of Tahiti
Mob Town
Can't Help Singing
Ex-Champ
Private Buckaroo
His Butler's Sister
The Big Guy
Follow the Band
Double Alibi
Tangier
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Two Bright Boys
Hers to Hold
Cowboy in Manhattan
Behind the Mike
How's About It
Smooth as Silk
Call a Messenger
Escape from Hong Kong
Acting
7 credits
She Done Him Wrong
Thirty Day Princess
The Devil Is Driving
The Billion Dollar Scandal
The Secret Call
Southern Justice
The Magic Eye
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