Perry Finnerman

Birth : 1903-08-18, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK

Death : 1960-03-13

History

Born 1903 in Blackburn, England, Perry Finnerman came from a family of nine boys and four girls, and the family emigrated to America in the 1920s. In 1928 Finnerman got a job at Warner Brothers as an assistant cameraman. He was soon promoted to camera operator, and in the 1950s was promoted to director of photography. He worked on many television series for Warner Brothers Television. His credits include Colt .45 (1957), Hawaiian Eye (1959), 77 Sunset Strip (1958), Cheyenne (1955), Bourbon Street Beat (1959), Maverick (1957) and Sugarfoot (1957). He also photographed one season of Adventures in Paradise (1959) at 20th Century-Fox. He passed away while filming a "Maverick" episode in 1960.

Movies

Buffalo Gun
Director of Photography
In this western, the Indians claim that their government rations are being stolen and they threaten to fight back. A pair of agents look into it and bring the culprits to justice.
The Littlest Hobo
Director of Photography
When a roaming German Shepherd Dog rescues a boy's pet lamb from the slaughterhouse he struggles to reunite them, despite being chased by police and getting little cooperation from the lamb.
Daddy-O
Director of Photography
Phil, a part-time truck driver and singer who wears his pants far too high, meets a feisty platinum blonde who challenges him to a drag race through Griffith Park. When he is caught and loses his license, he meets up with the sketchy Frank Wooster who offers him a job singing in his new nightclub. When Phil discovers that his new job also includes drug running, he must fight to save his friends and himself.
Tough Assignment
Camera Operator
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele). Margie insists on taking pictures of everywhere they go, and so as she's walking into a butcher shop she poses for Dan - while at the same time three thugs make their way quickly out after beating up the proprietors. Soon Margie and Dan are involved in investigating an illegal meat operation that rustles cattle and forces butchers to buy it - or else. Dan gets beaten up a couple of times, but is undaunted in pursuing the great story - and hey, he's only got 64 minutes to do so, he'd best get cracking!
Apache Chief
Camera Operator
When his tribesmen begin killing off white settlers, Young Eagle is opposed to the carnage. In order to assure a lasting peace, however, the chief must deal with renegade Apache Black Wolf.
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Camera Operator
A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.
Champion
Camera Operator
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
The Judge
Camera Operator
A study of an amoral and sleazy defense lawyer who suddenly tries to "go straight" when he finds out that his tart wife is cheating on him; as well as the similarities he has in life with one of his clients.
Last of the Wild Horses
Camera Operator
A cowboy must clear himself of a murder he did not commit.
Night Wind
Camera Operator
A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.
Fighting Back
Camera Operator
An ex-convict, freed to fight in World War II, gets a factory job and is accused when a bracelet is missing.
Arthur Takes Over
Camera Operator
A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.
Half Past Midnight
Camera Operator
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the woman becomes the main suspect. She and the gumshoe team up and begin searching for the real killer.
Where the North Begins
Camera Operator
A Canadian Mountie investigates the disappearance of a brother officer.
Roses Are Red
Camera Operator
A crooked crime boss tries to put a crony into office.
Captain Calamity
Second Assistant Camera
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure.
The Tenderfoot
Assistant Camera
Calvin Jones is a cowboy who wants to invest in a Broadway play. Joe Lehman's secretary Ruth learns that her boss is attempting to swindle Jones and pulls a successful coup d'etat producing a play that she stars in.
Man Wanted
Assistant Camera
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.
Play Girl
Assistant Camera
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
Union Depot
Assistant Camera
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
The Woman from Monte Carlo
Assistant Camera
On the eve of WW-I the French Navy ship Lafayette returns to its Toulon base for one night. There is no shore leave, although wives are permitted to come to a party. The strain of command on the older captain and his new, young wife is very great.
Alexander Hamilton
Assistant Camera
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Bought!
Assistant Camera
Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.
Woman Hungry
Assistant Camera
This film, believed lost, was based on William Vaughn Moody's 1906 play The Great Divide. The story was filmed as a silent film by MGM as The Great Divide (1925) and as an early silent/sound hybrid by First National also called The Great Divide (1929). Judith Temple has come West to Arizona for some excitement. As she says goodbye to her brother and his wife, who are returning to the East, Dr. Neil Cranford, who is in love with her, is called away to tend the broken ribs of a man injured in a barroom brawl.
The Naughty Flirt
Assistant Camera
A coquettish socialite falls for a straight-laced associate in her father's law firm. But she must also fend off the advances of a greedy fortune-hunter and his sister.