Roswell A. Hoffmann

Birth : 1905-03-30,

Death : 2001-03-12

Movies

Earthquake
Visual Effects
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
The Brass Bottle
Special Effects
A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.
Pillow Talk
Visual Effects
Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
The Land Unknown
Visual Effects
Navy Commander Alan Roberts is assigned to lead an expedition to Little America in Antarctica to investigate reports of a mysterious warm water inland lake discovered a decade earlier. His helicopter and its small party, including reporter Maggie Hathaway, is forced down into a volcanic crater by a fierce storm. They find themselves trapped in a lush tropical environment that has survived from prehistoric times.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Visual Effects
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
This Island Earth
Visual Effects
Aliens have landed and are hiding on Earth, but need Earth’s scientists to help them fight an inter-planetary war.
It Came from Outer Space
Visual Effects
Author & amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona, but Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Visual Effects
Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy's invisible help.
Pillow of Death
Camera Operator
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
The Crimson Canary
Camera Operator
Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.
River Gang
Camera Operator
An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
Shady Lady
Camera Operator
A crook becomes the victim of a crafty card player who works for the District Attorney.
Penthouse Rhythm
Camera Operator
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
The Woman in Green
Camera Operator
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Easy to Look At
Camera Operator
In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl, who is also a singer, soon begins establishing herself in the fashion industry, but when a rival accuses her of stealing a pattern, her career is nearly destroyed. Fortunately, a handsome, romantic hero is around to help her clear her name. Songs include: "Come Along My Heart", "That does It", "Swing Low Sweet Lariat" and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?".
I'll Remember April
Camera Operator
The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.
She Gets Her Man
Camera Operator
The corny daughter of a famed policewoman tries to catch a blowgun killer.
In Society
Camera Operator
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly
Invisible Agent
Visual Effects
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
The Invisible Woman
Visual Effects
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
It's a Date
Assistant Camera
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
Behind the Mike
Assistant Camera
Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.
Top of the Town
Assistant Camera
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
The Great Impersonation
Assistant Camera
The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
Diamond Jim
Assistant Camera
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.
Night Life of the Gods
Assistant Camera
A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked leprechaun. On a trip to New York, Hunter and Meg (the leprechaun) decide to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and turn all of the Statues of Greek Gods into people. What follows in a drunken romp around New York with Medusa's severed head still in Perseus' hand.
The Invisible Man
Visual Effects
Working in Dr. Cranley's laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley's daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion's Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He's prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.
Only Yesterday
Assistant Camera
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
The Fourth Horseman
Assistant Camera
Tom Mix once again goes up against corrupt Fred Kohler in this would-be epic Western filmed on-location at Kanab, UT. Retiring from a life of train robbing, Benjamin R. Jones takes over the ghost town of Stillwell, knowing full well that the property belongs to Molly O'Rourke. Enter horse wrangler Tom Mason, who smells a rat and does his best to unmask Jones as the crook he knows him to be. Molly at first falls for Jones' scheme, but confronts him when a general feeling of lawlessness sets in. The villain, alas, has an ace up his sleeve: Molly owes back taxes on her property, which is ripe for a takeover.
Okay, America!
Assistant Camera
A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.
Back Street
Assistant Camera
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets" of his life.
Racing Youth
Assistant Camera
A young man is mistaken for his boss.
King of Jazz
Special Effects Assistant
Made during the early years of the movie musical, this exuberant revue was one of the most extravagant, eclectic, and technically ambitious Hollywood productions of its day. Starring the bandleader Paul Whiteman, then widely celebrated as the King of Jazz, the film drew from Broadway variety shows to present a spectacular array of sketches, performances by such acts as the Rhythm Boys (featuring a young Bing Crosby), and orchestral numbers—all lavishly staged by veteran theater director John Murray Anderson.