Charles Van Enger

Charles Van Enger
Born	August 29, 1890 Port Jervis, New York United States
Died	July 4, 1980 (aged 89) Woodland Hills, California United States
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1920–1966

Charles Van Enger (29 August 1890 – 4 July 1980) was an American cinematographer. In the 1920s Van Enger worked on all the silent films the German director Ernst Lubitsch made for Warner Bros..^[1] During the 1930s he worked in the British film industry. His later work was largely on supporting features for Universal Pictures and various independents.

Selected filmography

• The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
• Salomé (1923)
• Kiss Me Again (1925)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
• Paradise (1926)
• Easy Pickings (1927)
• The Sea Tiger (1927)
• The Port of Missing Girls (1928)
• Help Yourself (1932)
• Money Means Nothing (1932)
• Turkey Time (1933)
• I Was a Spy (1933)
• Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
• Aunt Sally (1933)
• My Song for You (1934)
• Me and Marlborough (1935)
• In Town Tonight (1935)
• Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
• The Stoker (1935)
• Things Are Looking Up (1935)
• Soft Lights and Sweet Music (1936)
• Where There's a Will (1936)
• Captain Bill (1936)
• Jack of All Trades (1936)
• The Bureaucrats (1936)
• San Francisco Docks (1940)
• Moonlight in Havana (1942)
• Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
• Frisco Sal (1945)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
• Lorna Doone (1951)
• Sitting Bull (1954)
• Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954)
• Khyber Patrol (1954)
• Gun Fever (1958)

References

1. Thompson p.28

Bibliography

• Thompson, Kristin. Herr Lubitch Goes To Hollywood: German and American Film After World War I. Amsterdam University Press, 2005.

External links

• Charles Van Enger at the Internet Movie Database