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Otto Kanturek(1897-1941)

  • Cinematographer
  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • Director
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Otto Kanturek was born on 27 July 1897 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a cinematographer and director, known for The Student's Romance (1935), Woman in the Moon (1929) and V tom domecku pod Emauzy (1934). He died on 26 June 1941 in Cawston, Norfolk, England, UK.
BornJuly 27, 1897
DiedJune 26, 1941(43)
BornJuly 27, 1897
DiedJune 26, 1941(43)
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  • Awards
    • 1 nomination total

Known for

Grete Natzler in The Student's Romance (1935)
The Student's Romance
5.5
  • Director
  • 1935
Woman in the Moon (1929)
Woman in the Moon
7.3
  • Cinematographer(as Otto Kantureck)
  • 1929
V tom domecku pod Emauzy (1934)
V tom domecku pod Emauzy
  • Director
  • 1934
Das Glück von Grinzing (1933)
Das Glück von Grinzing
  • Director
  • 1933

Credits

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Cinematographer

  • Rex Harrison and Margaret Lockwood in Night Train to Munich (1940)
    Night Train to Munich
    7.2
    • photography
    • 1940
  • The Girl in the News (1940)
    The Girl in the News
    6.7
    • photography
    • 1940
  • Rex Harrison, C.V. France, Joan Marion, and Karen Verne in Missing Ten Days (1940)
    Missing Ten Days
    6.3
    • Cinematographer
    • 1940
  • Gracie Fields and Sydney Howard in Shipyard Sally (1939)
    Shipyard Sally
    6.3
    • photography
    • 1939
  • So This Is London (1939)
    So This Is London
    7.0
    • Cinematographer
    • 1939
  • Edward Chapman, Judy Kelly, John Lodge, Joan Marion, and Hugh Williams in One Night in Paris (1938)
    One Night in Paris
    6.1
    • Cinematographer
    • 1938
  • Hold My Hand (1938)
    Hold My Hand
    6.8
    • photography
    • 1938
  • Queer Cargo (1938)
    Queer Cargo
    • Cinematographer
    • 1938
  • Diana Churchill, Phillips Holmes, and Otto Kruger in Housemaster (1938)
    Housemaster
    6.9
    • photography
    • 1938
  • Over She Goes (1937)
    Over She Goes
    7.1
    • Cinematographer
    • 1937
  • Let's Make a Night of It (1937)
    Let's Make a Night of It
    5.9
    • photography
    • 1937
  • Spring Handicap (1937)
    Spring Handicap
    5.6
    • photography
    • 1937
  • Please Teacher (1937)
    Please Teacher
    6.8
    • photography
    • 1937
  • A Clown Must Laugh
    6.5
    • Cinematographer
    • 1936
  • Noah Beery and Nils Asther in The Prisoner of Corbal (1936)
    The Prisoner of Corbal
    5.3
    • Cinematographer
    • 1936

Camera and Electrical Department

  • Tyrone Power and Betty Grable in A Yank in the RAF (1941)
    A Yank in the RAF
    6.3
    • camera operator: flying sequences
    • 1941
  • Adrienne Ames, Nils Asther, and Fritz Kortner in Abdul the Damned (1935)
    Abdul the Damned
    5.6
    • chief cameraman
    • 1935
  • Käthe von Nagy in Die kleine Veronika (1929)
    Die kleine Veronika
    7.0
    • camera operator: studio camera
    • 1929
  • Der Geisterzug (1927)
    Der Geisterzug
    6.7
    • camera operator
    • 1927

Director

  • Grete Natzler in The Student's Romance (1935)
    The Student's Romance
    5.5
    • Director
    • 1935
  • V tom domecku pod Emauzy (1934)
    V tom domecku pod Emauzy
    • Director
    • 1934
  • Das Glück von Grinzing (1933)
    Das Glück von Grinzing
    • Director
    • 1933

Personal details

  • Alternative names
    • Otto Kantureck
  • Born
    • July 27, 1897
    • Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
  • Died
    • June 26, 1941
    • Cawston, Norfolk, England, UK(military plane crash)

Did you know

  • Trivia
    He was killed with Jack Parry when a Hurricane fighter collided with their Avro Anson camera plane over Norfolk after filming for "A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941).

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