Ernest B. Schoedsack(1893-1979)

Director
Cinematographer
Camera and Electrical Department

Ernest B. Schoedsack in The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

Ernest B. Schoedsack was born on 8 June 1893 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for King Kong (1933), Dr. Cyclops (1940) and Rango (1931). He was married to Ruth Rose. He died on 23 December 1979 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Known for

King Kong

7.9

Director(uncredited)

1933

Dr. Cyclops

6.4

Director

1940

Rango

5.5

Director

1931

The Most Dangerous Game

7.0

Director

1932

Credits

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Director

This Is Cinerama
6.8
- prologue only (uncredited)
- 1952
Mighty Joe Young
7.0
- Director
- 1949
Dr. Cyclops
6.4
- Director
- 1940
Outlaws of the Orient
5.4
- Director
- 1937
Trouble in Morocco
6.8
- Director
- 1937
The Last Days of Pompeii
6.4
- Director
- 1935
Long Lost Father
5.8
- Director
- 1934
Son of Kong
5.6
- Director
- 1933
Blind Adventure
6.2
- Director
- 1933
King Kong
7.9
- Director (uncredited)
- 1933
The Monkey's Paw
6.6
- Director (uncredited)
- 1933
The Most Dangerous Game
7.0
- Director
- 1932
Rango
5.5
- Director
- 1931
The Four Feathers
6.9
- Director
- 1929
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
6.7
- Director
- 1927

Cinematographer

Gow
5.8
- Cinematographer
- 1931
Rango
5.5
- Cinematographer
- 1931
The Four Feathers
6.9
- Cinematographer (uncredited)
- 1929
Captain Salisbury's Ra-Mu
- Cinematographer
- 1929
The Lost Empire
- Cinematographer
- 1929
Gow the Head Hunter
6.0
- Cinematographer
- 1928
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
6.7
- Cinematographer (uncredited)
- 1927
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
7.7
- recorded for the screen by
- 1925
Beach of Dreams
6.9
- Cinematographer (as Felix Schoedsack)
- 1921
A Dark Room Secret
Short
- Cinematographer
- 1917
A Love Case
Short
- Cinematographer
- 1917
His Widow's Might
Short
- Cinematographer
- 1917
Her Torpedoed Love
5.8
Short
- Cinematographer (as Felix Schoedsack)
- 1917
Her Fame and Shame
5.8
Short
- Cinematographer (as Felix Schoedsack)
- 1917
Her Marble Heart
Short
- Cinematographer (as Felix Schoedsack)
- 1916

Camera and Electrical Department

Personal details

Alternative names
- E.B. Schoedsack
Height
- 6′ 6″ (1.98 m)
Born
- June 8, 1893
- Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
Died
- December 23, 1979
- Los Angeles County, California, USA(undisclosed)
Spouse
- Ruth Rose1926 - June 8, 1978 (her death, 1 child)
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Did you know

Trivia
Ado Kyrou wrote that Schoedsack met Ruth Rose in the Brazilian jungle of Amazonia, when they were conducting separate exploration projects ("Amour Erotisme et Cinema", Le Terrain vague, Paris; page 239). The truth is that in 1925, they were engaged respectively as cameraman and historian by the Cooper-Schoedsack Productions (with Merian C. Cooper, who was director of the department of tropical research of the New York Zoological Society from 1919) to film the exotic the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) with a linear narrative, as Schoedsack had done in Persia and Siam. Theirs was a case of love at first sight; they married in 1926.