Len Powers

Len Powers

Рождение : 1894-12-12, Rodney, Iowa, USA

Смерть : 1965-01-25

История

POWERS, LEN (Leonard Stephen Powers) Born December 12, 1892 (although he incorrectly gave 1894 on some documents), Rodney, Iowa. Len grew up in Grant, Iowa with his grocer father Charles, mother May, and siblings Charles, Hazel and Clara. He went to school in Portland, Oregon and for a time was a professional boxer. Powers began work as a cinematographer with Reliance in 1914. He shot Blue Blood and Red (1916) for Raoul Walsh at Fox, and Headin’ South (1918) for Douglas Fairbanks, directed by Allan Dwan; he also worked for Magnetic, Mack Sennett, and Hank Mann Comedies. His first film for Hal Roach was the Our Gang short Young Sherlocks (1922). He directed or co-directed 14 Dippy Doo-Dad shorts for Roach in 1923 and ’24, and because of his success with all-animal casts he was asked to film a rooster crowing for the official Pathé logo. After that, Powers was a cameraman exclusively for Roach through 1933, mostly working with Charley Chase. (He moonlighted as a gagman for Mack Sennett in 1927.) With Laurel and Hardy he worked on From Soup to Nuts, Habeas Corpus, Unaccustomed As We Are, Berth Marks, The Hoose-Gow, and The Music Box. He worked at Universal in the early ’40s and was camera operator on some Johnny Mack Brown Westerns toward the end of the decade. His last known credit was photographing stills for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956). Powers’ wife, the former Muriel Elizabeth Davey, died in November. 1945, but he was survived by their daughter Murlen. Died January25, 1965, Hollywood, California, age 72; of a heart attack.

Профиль

Len Powers

Фильмы

Hollywood Burlesque
Director of Photography
This is an actual burlesque show, filmed in 1948 at the Hollywood Theater in San Diego, California. It is not a drama or a documentary, it is what you would have seen if you'd been sitting in the theater.
Slave Ship
Crew Member (uncredited)
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Arabian Tights
Director of Photography
Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan.
The Cohens and Kellys in Trouble
Director of Photography
Kelly's daughter falls for a revenue agent, and his divorced wife is after alimony.
You're Telling Me
Director of Photography
In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - though it stretches into several months.
Музыкальная шкатулка
Director of Photography
Как легендарный Сизиф, грузчики Лорел и Харди пытаются пронести большое пианино по, казалось бы, непреодолимому лестничному пролёту.
The Tabasco Kid
Director of Photography
A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
Bear Shooters
Director of Photography
The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to try and scare them off with a gorilla suit but the gang decides to try and capture the gorilla instead.
На верхней полке
Director of Photography
Наши друзья на сей раз музыканты. Стэнли играет на виолончели, а Олли его персональный антерпренер. Они едут на гастроли в Поттсвил. Но из-за Стэнли, который немного перепутал время встречи на вокзале, они чуть было не опоздали на поезд. Но чуть-чуть, как говорится, не считается, и вон они уже в вагоне. Правда, в суматохе растеряли все ноты, ну, так это мелочь! Впереди ночь, у наших друзей на двоих одна верхняя полка в спальном вагоне. Наши друзья, с горем пополам залезают на верхнюю полку и готовятся ко сну. Успеют ли они поспать? Вряд ли, ибо уже следующая станция Поттсвил!
Unaccustomed as We Are
Director of Photography
Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.
The Boy Friend
Director of Photography
The pretty daughter of a bank clerk meets a handsome college student who attempts to romance her. Due to the comical nature of the two kids meeting, the father suspects the student to be of ill repute and he and his wife conspire to scare him away by acting crazy.
Limousine Love
Director of Photography
On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car
The Way of All Pants
Director of Photography
A man delivering a pair of trousers loses his own pants, setting off a chaotic sequence of events.
Be Your Age
Director of Photography
Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late husband and wants to marry a younger man. Mr. Blaylock, her attorney, sees a way to solve both their problems, and keep control of her $2 million.
Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes
Director of Photography
The crotchety dean of Pinkham University blames the "bad behavior of the school's female students on a dress shop owned by Helene, and informs her he's shutting her shop down. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Napoleon has invented a plaster that restores youth. The dean accidentally sits on the plaster and reverts back to his younger days when he himself used to chase college girls. Complications ensue.
Bromo and Juliet
Director of Photography
A young man puts on the play "Romeo and Juliet" as a fundraiser, but has to keep a close eye on his dad, who's had several drinks too many, and a pesky cab driver who's determined to collect his fare.
Crazy Like a Fox
Director of Photography
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan.
А вот и тетушка!
Cinematography
Разведенная пара пытается притвориться, что они все еще счастливы в браке, чтобы получить 100 000 долларов от не одобряющей развод женщины.
He Forgot to Remember
Director
Clyde Cook is a traveling handyman who whitewashes farm barns and he flirts with the wife of a jealous farmer. The husband sees this and takes off after Clyde who runs into an army recruiting station and enlists. The highly-offended farmer also enlists and the chase continues across several army posts.
Say It with Babies
Director of Photography
Casper is the baby-expert at a large department store and his life is less than peaceful as he provides much amusement for the babies at his own expense. On Sunday, he and his wife go on a picnic with the neighbors and hoe comes home on his day of rest with three traffic tickets and numerous stings from the hornets he failed to amuse.
Wandering Papas
Director of Photography
A cook for bridge constructors is told to collect food for dinner-Ritz style trout, Palmer house rabbit and a 15cm frosted cake. He sets off into the wide open spaces to collect the food, coming into contact with a mad hermit, who hates anybody seeing his daughter, before returning to cook dinner
Innocent Husbands
Director of Photography
Despite his faithfulness, Melvin is always under suspicion by wife Mame. Complications erupt when a woman from a party across the hall passes out in Melvin's bedroom just before Mame returns.
Bad Boy
Director of Photography
In this two-reeler, Jimmy Jump wants to please both of his parents, but they disagree about everything. His father wants him to act more manly, although Jimmy gets his sensitivity from his mother. He wants to wed his girlfriend, and so accepts a job at his father's iron foundry, but does not excel there. Next, Jimmy goes to a tough dance-hall to impress his girl. A highlight is his parody of an Isadora Duncan dance.
Should Husbands Be Watched?
Director of Photography
Mr. Jump has come into some money and informs his wife that they can now hire a maid and won't have to do anymore housework. Circumstances cause Mrs. Jump to suspect that Mr. Jump is cavorting with the new maid.
Plain and Fancy Girls
Director of Photography
Jimmy Jump has a "plain" girlfriend, and becomes intrigued by a "fancy" girl he spots in a park. Eventually he realizes he is better off with his no-frills girl.
Sittin' Pretty
Director of Photography
Charley Chase comedy.
Stolen Goods
Director of Photography
A man starts working in a department store and has to deal with a female kleptomaniac.
Up and at 'Em
Director
A 'Dippy Doo Dad' comedy with an all-animal cast.
North of 50-50
Director
Len Powers' Dippy-Doo-Dads (the billing received by the films' all-animal cast) cavort, drink and seek frontier justice "North of 53, where the population is split 50-50 between bad men and Northwest Mounted Police" in this broad parody of Mountie Westerns. Produced by Hal Roach Studios.
Lovey Dovey
Director
A monkey is kidnapped by another monkey, while a third monkey is hot on the trail. Part of Hal Roach's Dippy Doo Dads series.
Go West
Director
Western Movies with monkeys in the roles. The son of mom and dad Monkey gets home too late after a wet night. The father, tired of this behavior has enough and throws his son out of the house.
The Knockout
Director
Intelligent monkeys, dogs, and ducks enact a spoof of boxing dramas. (MoMA)
Be Honest
Director
One monkey is stealing eggs from the farmyard. Another monkey, with his dog friend, tries to stop the crook.
The Yellow Dog Catcher
Camera Operator
The misadventures of a dog catcher
Headin' South
Director of Photography
A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth in search of Spanish Joe (Campeau), a Mexican responsible for most of the treachery and outlawry along the U.S.-Mexican boarder. Headin' South gains quite a reputation as he goes along and finally believes himself worthy of joining Joe's band. in a whirlwind finish in which Joe is captured, Headin' South meets one of Joe's near victims (MacDonald) and falls in love with her."
The Honor System
Director of Photography
A potentially lost film, this film tells the story of a man is convicted unjustly of a crime and then subjected to inhumane torment in a prison run by corrupt administrators.