Alfred Gilks

Nascimento : 1891-12-29,

Morte : 1970-09-06

Filmes

Just What I Needed
Director of Photography
Harry Horseknuckle tries to figure out what to do with some strange and unwanted gifts.
Bright Road
Director of Photography
Jane Richards, uma jovem professora de quarta série no Sul, enfrenta um desafio na forma de uma criança de 11 anos de idade. Jovens, garotos atrasados ​​cujo orgulho o tornou um rebelde teimoso e um mentiroso exaltado. Jane acredita nele, depois descobre seu interesse pela natureza quando passa seu tempo observando uma lagarta no tronco de uma árvore enquanto desenvolve um casulo. C. T. é dedicado à sua família e também à pequena Tanya, que o adora. Quando Tanya morre de pneumonia viral, apesar dos esforços do Dr. Mitchell para salvá-la, o amargurado C.T. fica longe da escola; quando ele retorna, ele entra em uma briga e é mandado para Coventry. Mas quando um enxame de abelhas invade a sala de aula e entra em pânico, os alunos, C.T. toma conta, captura a abelha-rainha e conduz o enxame para fora, ganhando o elogio do diretor da escola.
Sinfonia de Paris
Director of Photography
O veterano da Segunda Guerra Mundial, Jerry, vive em Paris tentando se firmar como pintor. Ele conhece a milionária Milo que o apoia e tenta ajudá-lo a subir na carreira, mesmo estando mais interessada em Jerry do que na sua arte. Mas ele acaba se apaixonando por Lise que está noiva de Henri, por quem ela tem uma dívida de gratidão por ter salvado sua família e ela durante a guerra.
Lassie: Heróis da Montanha
Director of Photography
Velho mineiro dá a sua cadela de presente a um menino. Mas o animal não se acostuma e adoece, e o garoto resolve levá-la de volta ao dono. Só que seu guia na viagem, na verdade, quer roubar o ouro do garimpeiro. E Lassie terá que se recuperar a tempo de salvar o velho e o menino.
Two Weeks with Love
Director of Photography
The Robinson family are spending two weeks of summer vacation at a resort in the Catskills. Older daughter Patti vies with her friend, Valeria, for the affections of Demi Armendez but Patti is at a disadvantage because her parents think she is too young for boys. But with Patti singing at an amateur show and a dance, her adventures in quest of Armendez ends happily.
Did'ja Know?
Director of Photography
This short looks at the following questions: How would you act as an expectant father?; How many greeting cards are sold in the USA each year?; Why do radiators make that pounding noise?; Why do animals yawn?
You Can't Win
Cinematography
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.
You Can't Win
Director of Photography
In this comedic Pete Smith Specialty short film, a homeowner experiences a series of mishaps while taking a day off from the office.
Mariona Rebull
Director of Photography
Barcelona, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. Joaquín Rius, a prominent businessman, marries the young Mariona Rebull. Their apparent happiness is overshadowed by the arrival of Ernesto Villar, Joaquín's friend and Mariona's former lover.
O Segredo do Dr. Kildare
Director of Photography
Intern Kildare heals a millionaire's daughter and tricks Dr. Gillespie into taking a vacation.
Adorável Impostora
Director of Photography
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Estas Grã-Finas de Hoje
Director of Photography
A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to get rid of her, but she won't leave. Instead, she stays and shows up both him and his classmates' snooty dates.
Chamem o Dr. Kildare
Director of Photography
Following an argument with his young protege, the curmudgeonly Dr. Gillespie dumps Jimmy Kildare in a street clinic, hoping to teach him a lesson. While working there Kildare meets pretty nurse Mary Lamont, and ends up treating a hoodlum with a gunshot wound. He purposely fails to write a report on it, and soon finds himself in a heap of trouble. Who else would come to his rescue but good old Dr. Gillespie?
It's in the Stars
Cinematography
Musical short about a fraternity and a sorority that call a halt to dating between their houses to improve their grades.
Thunder in the City
Director of Photography
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
The Sky Parade
Director of Photography
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.
A Queima Roupa
Director of Photography
A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.
Haroldo Tapa-Olho
Director of Photography
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
People Will Talk
Cinematography
Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, have a squabble, Clarice has a plan to show the daughter just how distasteful domestic bickering appears; She enters into an agreement with Henry that they will fake a fuss to serve as an object lesson. Clarice's will to play the game and her sense of humor play out at about the same time when Henry's remarks become more pointed as the charade goes on. Their fake fight is soon a real barn-burner.
Vamos à América
Director of Photography
In this comedy of an Englishman stranded in a sea of barbaric Americans, Marmaduke Ruggles, a gentleman's gentleman and butler to an Earl is lost in a poker game to an uncouth American cattle baron. Ruggles's life is turned upside down as he's taken to the USA, is gradually assimilated into American life, accidently becomes a local celebrity, and falls in love along the way.
The Notorious Sophie Lang
Director of Photography
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off guard by having her fall for a handsome and suave jewel thief who happens to be in the U.S. traveling under an assumed name.
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Cinematography
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
A Tailor-Made Man
Director of Photography
John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.
Kiss Me Again
Camera Operator
An officer of the French Military is in love with a shop girl, but his aristocratic father wants him to marry in his class and convinces the girl that marriage would be a mistake. The officer goes off to war and she becomes an opera star.
The Kibitzer
Director of Photography
In this comedy, a Yiddish fellow cannot keep from kibitzing into other people's lives. Trouble ensues when he is mistakenly given a huge fortune in stocks that he can spend any way he pleases. At the same time, his daughter has fallen in love with an impoverished, but good hearted boy. When the kibitzer suggests he bet all his money on a dog of a racehorse, the lad does it. Against all odds, the horse wins, and suddenly the young man is quite wealthy.
Half Way to Heaven
Director of Photography
Odd little circus film about trapeze artists and obsessive love.
Sweetie
Director of Photography
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
Jealousy
Director of Photography
Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier who bought the shop for her.
The First Kiss
Director of Photography
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."
The Big Killing
Director of Photography
The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hickses come up with a plan to get rid of their enemies once and for all by hiring two sharpshooters to finish them off. Turns out that the "sharpshooters" aren't quite all they're cracked up to be, resulting in some unintended consequences.
Red Hair
Cinematography
A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also happen to be the guardians of a wealthy young man to whom she is attracted.
Get Your Man
Cinematography
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
Figures Don't Lie
Director of Photography
Figures Don't Lie is a showcase for the physical charms of lovely Esther Ralston, who in one scene proves the accuracy of the title by donning a fetching one-piece bathing suit. The main story concerns wise-guy insurance salesman Richard Arlen, who through a combination of hard work and sheer gall lands a job as sales manager. But he can't land heroine Ralston, who has remained cool to his charms ever since he tried to make a play for her on the street.
Ten Modern Commandments
Cinematography
A chorus girl falls in love with a budding composer.
Old Ironsides
Director of Photography
An embellished account of the 1813 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.
The Female
Cinematography
A Sam Wood silent South Africa romance is a love story (based on Cynthia Stocklet Story) with a sad...and then happy ending. antic love triangle melodrama, from the Cynthia Stocklet Story. Dalla (Betty Compson) is a pretty orphan who is adopted by a wealthy man. When she matures, he invites her to England (leaving her beau behind),and eventually marries her. After her husband is murdered, she is accused of the crime, because she has still been seeing her old beau Col. Valentia (Warner Baxter). After eventually being cleared of the crime Della maries her first love...Valentia.
The Next Corner
Director of Photography
While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who takes her to Countess Longueval after her husband must go for work to Argentine.When her husband returns he is shocked how have Elsie change.Elsie goes to a party in Arturos hunting lodge,where he forces himself on her.Arturo is shot by a Stranger and Elsie confesses all to her forgiving husband.Juan Serafin is found shot.
His Children's Children
Cinematography
Follows three generations of the Mayne family through the year 1921-22. The 81-year-old patriarch reminisces about his rough beginnings in post-Civil War railroading, son Rufus rides rough waters as a wealthy financier, and his wife and three daughters muddle through their New York high society life.
My American Wife
Director of Photography
A 1922 film.
Esposa Mártir
Director of Photography
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
Her Husband’s Trademark
Cinematography
James Berkeley (who wants to get rich) and Allan Franklin (determined to be a great engineer) are rivals for the hand of Lois Miller. Berkeley marries her, and 15 years later, though he has not realized his ambition, he keeps his wife luxuriously attired as a "trademark" of his prosperity. Allan, who has obtained a large tract of oil land from the Mexican Government, visits the Berkeleys; and James, hoping to profit from his wealth, goes to Mexico with him, accompanied by Lois, who unwillingly agrees to help her husband. When Allan and Lois realize their love for each other, James, refusing to become angry, is denounced by his wife. A band of Mexican bandits attempt to capture Lois, and in the attack James is slain. Allan rescues Lois, and they escape across the border.
Her First Elopement
Director of Photography
What's Your Hurry?
Director of Photography
Truckdriver Dusty Rhoades leads a team of truckers over dangerous roads to deliver emergency supplies before a crucial dam breaks.
The Dancin' Fool
Cinematography
Sylvester Tibble is a clerk in his uncle's restaurant. Sylvester dreams of becoming a famous dancer and tries to inject a little of the jazz life into his uncle's old-fashioned establishment. When dancer Junie Budd shows up at the restaurant, Sylvester sees a chance to make his dream come true.