Harry Jackson

Birth : 1896-04-15, Nebraska, USA

Death : 1953-08-03

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harry Jackson (April 15, 1896 – August 3, 1953) was an American cinematographer. Jackson was born in Nebraska, and was first employed in Hollywood as a still photographer for Warner Brothers. As a cinematographer he was active through the end of the silent era in 1927, through his death in 1953, shooting about 75 films altogether. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Color Cinematography for his work on 1947's Mother Wore Tights

Movies

Rhapsody
Director of Photography
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. The violinist loves his music first and Louise second. The pianist loves Louise first and his music second. Louise must ultimately choose which man she wants.
The Band Wagon
Director of Photography
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
The Kid from Left Field
Director of Photography
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who takes too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for baseball to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only gets his dad's job back, but a batboy position for himself. With his dad's help, Christie begins to make a few suggestions here and there. And as a publicity stunt, the team makes him their youngest manager on record. But when Chris gets sick, Coop has to come to the rescue.
Way of a Gaucho
Director of Photography
In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the army and becomes a bandit leader.
Lydia Bailey
Director of Photography
A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.
Pony Soldier
Director of Photography
Duncan MacDonald, a 19th-century Royal Canadian Mountie, has to escort a group of Cree Indians back to their above-the-border reservation. His guide in this endeavor is the not-too-trustworthy half-breed Natayo.
Anne of the Indies
Director of Photography
After seizing an English ship, buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle from walking the plank - as he's in irons he is presumably no friend of England. He signs on as a pirate and she is increasingly drawn to him, a feeling that seems to be reciprocated. When fearsome Captain Blackbeard, her teacher in the ways of pirating, sets eyes on LaRochelle he recalls him as a French navy officer. Anne sticks by her man but the truth, when it is uncovered, is even more painful.
Take Care of My Little Girl
Director of Photography
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
Halls of Montezuma
Director of Photography
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Director of Photography
American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.
Three Little Words
Director of Photography
Song-and-dance man Bert Kalmar can't continue his stage career after an injury for while, so he has to earn his money as a lyricst. Per chance he meets composer Harry Ruby and their first song is a hit. Ruby gets Kalmar to marry is former partner Jessie Brown, and Kalmar and Jessie prevent Ruby from getting married to the wrong girls. But due to the fact, that Ruby has caused a backer's withdrawal for a Kalmar play, they end their relation.
A Ticket to Tomahawk
Director of Photography
A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to dancehall girls to try to thwart the plan. But the railroad workers, led by a female sharpshooter and an ambitious salesman, prove tough customers.
Dancing in the Dark
Director of Photography
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Director of Photography
Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Director of Photography
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
Chicken Every Sunday
Director of Photography
A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes.
When My Baby Smiles at Me
Director of Photography
Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increasing drinking problem and the fact that the press has reported him to be spending a lot of time with his pretty co-star.
Apartment for Peggy
Director of Photography
Professor Henry Barnes decides he's lived long enough and contemplates suicide. His attitude is changed by Peggy Taylor, a chipper young mother-to-be who charms him into renting out his attic as an apartment for her and her husband Jason, a former GI struggling to finish college.
Give My Regards to Broadway
Director of Photography
A family vaudeville act is threatened when the eldest son is offered a contract to play baseball. Musical.
Fury at Furnace Creek
Director of Photography
The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone at the poorly manned fort. As a result the treaty is broken with the Indians and the white settlers take over the territory with the help of the cavalry, as the Apaches are wiped out and only "Little Dog" remains at large. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell is court-martial-led for treason.
Mother Wore Tights
Director of Photography
In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a "two-act", then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.
Carnival in Costa Rica
Director of Photography
Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.
Wake Up and Dream
Director of Photography
Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.
Strange Triangle
Director of Photography
In this drama, a seductive woman uses her wiles upon both a traveling bank examiner and a manager to whom she is married. This woman has expensive taste and ends up spending all of her husband's money. She then begins trying to seduce the bank examiner, who doesn't know she is married to the manager.
Circumstantial Evidence
Director of Photography
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.
Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Director of Photography
Climbing to fame, Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball romances a showgirl, who catches the eye of an underworld character.
To the Shores of Tripoli
Director of Photography
Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Color) Cinematography.
We Go Fast
Director of Photography
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
Li'l Abner
Director of Photography
Li'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
City Girl
Director of Photography
In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend the district attorney to take up with a notorious gangster who lavishes her with stolen furs and fabulous diamonds. She has no idea that the crook is only using her as a pawn in his scheme to learn the DA's secrets. When she finally does learn the truth, she gives up her life for truth, justice and love.
Charlie Chan on Broadway
Director of Photography
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.
Wild and Woolly
Director of Photography
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) team up with character greats like Walter Brennan and Lon Chaney Jr. to help their hometown celebrate its golden anniversary. Not unexpectedly, things go astray when a bank robber hopes to cash in on the excitement, but fortunately his plans are thwarted by the towns newly elected sheriff (Brennan)...who's a reformed crook himself!
The Great Hospital Mystery
Director of Photography
A nurse's brother who's pursued by the mob, hides out in a hospital by pretending to be a patient.
Piernas de Seda
Director of Photography
Piernas de Seda is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Boland. It stars Rosita Moreno, Raul Roulien, and Enrique de Rosas. Rita Hayworth had a small uncredited role as a dancer.
$10 Raise
Director of Photography
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
Jungle Bride
Director of Photography
Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she believes is responsible for the murder which her brother is in prison for.
Get That Girl
Director of Photography
A young girl, who is about to receive a large inheritance, is abducted to an isolated sanitarium where a crazed doctor is performing strange experiments.
Partners
Cinematography
A rancher is arrested for murdering his young partner's grandfather, but he escapes to try to prove his innocence.
The Hot Spot
Cinematography
In order to capture a murderer, a reporter has his obnoxious brother-in-law confess to the crime.
The Costello Case
Director of Photography
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
New Orleans
Director of Photography
Billy, a jockey, and Jim, an assistant manager of a New Orleans racetrack, are close friends. They become bitter enemies because of Marie, an unprincipled young woman who marries Jim after betraying her first fiancé, Billy, on their wedding day. Marie's extravagance causes Jim to steal money from the office safe and to bet on Billy. Billy wins, but Jim is arrested and sent to jail when Marie neglects to replace the stolen money. Jim serves his term and is reunited with Billy after Marie and her lover are turned out of the house.
The Voice Within
Director of Photography
Early talkie starring Eve Southern and Walter Pidgeon.
My Lady's Past
Director of Photography
The BFI holds a complete copy.
Lucky Boy
Director of Photography
A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his father would never approve of. He comes up with a scheme to put on his own show in a theater and show his father that he can be a success, but things don't work out quite as well as he planned.
Three Hours
Director of Photography
Left penniless by her vengeful ex-husband, Madeline is forced to become a pickpocket to pay for a new wardrobe. One of her victims is a Mr. Finlay, who threatens to turn her over to the police -- until he hears Madeline's woeful tale of her cruel, possessive husband.