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Franz Planer, A.S.C. (born František Plánička; 29 March 1894 – 10 January 1963) was a Czech-American cinematographer.




Biography


Planer was born as František Plánička on 29 March 1894. He was born in Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, but his family came from Ústí nad Labem. He studied photography in Vienna in the 1910s and started to work there as cinematographer. He then moved to Germany and shot his first film Storms in May there in 1919, under the pseudonym Franz Planer. In 1923, he married a Jewish woman in Církvice in Czechoslovakia.
When the Nazis came to power, he decided to move from Germany to Austria and then to Great Britain. Because of his Jewish wife, he left Europe in 1937 and moved to the United States. He decided to change his name again to Franz Planer, this time officially and permanently.
He shot over 130 movies in Hollywood, including Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), The Big Country (1958) and Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961).




Partial filmography






Academy Award Nominations


Nominated for Cinematography (Black & White) 1949: Champion
Nominated for Cinematography (Black & White) 1951: Death of a Salesman
Nominated for Cinematography (Black & White) 1953: Roman Holiday
Nominated for Cinematography (Color) 1959: The Nun's Story
Nominated for Cinematography (Black & White) 1961: The Children's Hour




References






See also


List of German-speaking Academy Award winners and nominees




Further reading


Robert Müller: ¨Alpträume in Hollywood. Franz Planer: Eine Karriere zwischen Berlin, Wien und Los Angeles¨ in Christian Cargnelli, Michael Omasta (eds.): Schatten. Exil. Europäische Emigranten im Film noir (Vienna: PVS, 1997) ISBN 3-901196-26-9

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Champion (film 1949)
• Secret Command
• Volga Volga (film 1928)
• Harvard, Here I Come
• Sabotage Squad
• One Touch of Venus (film)
• The Unforgiven (film 1960)
• Appointment in Berlin
• The Children's Hour (film)
• Academy Award untuk Sinematografi Terbaik
• Franz Planer
• Planer
• Champion (1949 film)
• Academy Award for Best Cinematography
• Roman Holiday
• Death of a Salesman (1951 film)
• Holiday (1938 film)
• Criss Cross (film)
• 99 River Street
• Something's Got to Give