Sidney Wagner

Birth : 1901-01-13, Los Angeles, California, USA

Death : 1947-07-07

Movies

The Romance of Rosy Ridge
Director of Photography
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Director of Photography
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
The Sailor Takes a Wife
Director of Photography
While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each other and get married that night. However, when the sailor is notified that he has been reclassified as 4-F (unfit for service) by the Navy and then discharged, he and his new wife realize that, having to set up house before they expected to, they actually know very little about each other. Complications ensue.
Rationing
Director of Photography
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
The Cross of Lorraine
Director of Photography
French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.
The Man from Down Under
Director of Photography
An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.
Bataan
Director of Photography
During Japan's invasion of the Philippines in 1942, Capt. Henry Lassiter, Sgt. Bill Dane and a diverse group of American soldiers are ordered to destroy and hold a strategic bridge in order to delay the Japanese forces and allow Gen. MacArthur time to secure Bataan. When the Japanese soldiers begin to rebuild the bridge and advance, the group struggles with not only hunger, sickness and gunfire, but also the knowledge that there is likely no relief on the way.
Cabin in the Sky
Director of Photography
When compulsive gambler Little Joe Jackson dies in a drunken fight, he awakens in purgatory, where he learns that he will be sent back to Earth for six months to prove that he deserves to be in heaven. He awakens, remembering nothing and struggles to do right by his devout wife, Petunia, while an angel known as the General and the devil's son, Lucifer Jr., fight for his soul.
Madero of Mexico
Director of Photography
This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.
Apache Trail
Director of Photography
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Tarzan's New York Adventure
Director of Photography
Circus owner Buck Rand kidnaps Boy to perform in his show. He forces a pilot to fly him, Boy and his animal trainer out of the jungle. Tarzan and Jane follow them to New York.
Kathleen
Director of Photography
Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and her, and tells everyone that she has such a family. Because of this story, she cannot invite any friends over as they will see that it is not true.
Whistling in the Dark
Director of Photography
The operators of 'Silver Haven', a cultish group bilking gullible rich people out of money, is set to inherit a large sum after the deceased woman's heir also dies. Leader Joesph Jones decides to hurry the process along and kidnaps Wally Benton, his fiancé, and a friend, to further this goal. Wally, 'The Fox', is a radio sleuth who solves murders on the air. Jones wants him to devise a perfect murder, and isn't above killing others sloppily along the way to get his foolproof murder plot.
The Get-Away
Director of Photography
A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.
I'll Wait for You
Director of Photography
A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.
Blonde Inspiration
Director of Photography
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Gallant Sons
Cinematography
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Sporting Blood
Director of Photography
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante
Cinematography
Judge Hardy takes his family to New York City, where Andy quickly falls in love with a socialite. He finds the high society life too expensive, and eventually decides that he liked it better back home.
Young Tom Edison
Director of Photography
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Jack Pot
Director of Photography
This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with illegal gambling and bookmaking.
Northwest Passage
Director of Photography
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
Henry Goes Arizona
Director of Photography
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
The Kid From Texas
Director of Photography
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
Let Freedom Ring
Director of Photography
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
A Christmas Carol
Director of Photography
Classic Charles Dickens holiday tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser's miser who has a huge change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present, and future.
Boys Town
Director of Photography
Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system.
Anaesthesia
Director of Photography
An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.
Joaquin Murrieta
Director of Photography
This MGM Historical Mystery short follows the life and exploits of killer outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, in California in the 1850s.
One Mile From Heaven
Director of Photography
A female journalist travels to a new neighborhood after getting a (false) lead and is surprised by what she finds.
Fair Warning
Director of Photography
In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
To Mary - with Love
Director of Photography
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Pursuit
Cinematography
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid until the suit is over. (Overview written by Les Adams )
Hide-Out
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Wounded criminal Lucky Wilson takes refuge in a small Connecticut farm. He falls in love with the farmer's daughter who at first is unaware of his criminal record. Lucky is fully prepared to shoot his way out when the cops come calling, but he is softened by the daughter's affections.
There Were Thirteen
Director of Photography
This is the Spanish-language version, with a different cast and crew, of the Charlie Chan film Charlie Chan Carries On, in which Charlie sets out to discover the killer of an American found dead in a London hotel room.
La ley del harem
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Slaves of Fashion
Director of Photography
A woman owning a small dressmaker's shop decides to reopen it in Broadway in luxury at all expenses, trusting merely on the cards'premonitions. She wants her little children to pair with the richest boys. Her husband, who discouraged her, dies and the business soon takes flight.
More Pay - Less Work
Director of Photography
Albert Gran and E.J. Ratcliffe are warring San Francisco shipping magnates; Mary Brian is Gran’s daughter and Charles (Buddy) Rogers is Ratcliffe’s athletic son. The result is a swift, exhilarating comedy, full of laughs and a nonchalant charm.
Roaring Lions at Home
Director of Photography
Short comedy featuring Oliver Hardy and a lion