Ted Tetzlaff

Ted Tetzlaff
Born	Dale H. Tetzlaff (1903-06-03)June 3, 1903 Los Angeles, California, United States
Died	January 7, 1995(1995-01-07) (aged 91) Sausalito, California, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Film director, cinematographer

Dale H. "Ted" Tetzlaff (3 June 1903, Los Angeles, California – 7 January 1995, Sausalito, California) was an Academy Award-nominated Hollywood cinematographer active in the 1930s and 1940s.

Career

Tetzlaff was particularly favored by the actress Carole Lombard, whom he photographed in 10 films.

After World War II service as a US Army Major, he became a film director, and directed about a dozen films from 1947 to 1957, most notably the film noir classic The Window (1949).

His father was racecar driver and film stuntman Teddy Tetzlaff (1883–1929).

Selected filmography

As cinematographer

• Atta Boy (1926)
• Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926)
• Ragtime (1927)
• Polly of the Movies (1927)
• The Masked Angel (1928)
• The Apache (1928)
• The Power of the Press (1928)
• Into No Man's Land (1928)
• Stool Pigeon (1928)
• The Devil's Cage (1928)
• The Donovan Affair (1929)
• Hurricane (1929)
• The Younger Generation (1929)
• Mexicali Rose (1929)
• Acquitted (1929)
• The Faker (1929)
• Hell's Island (1930)
• Soldiers and Women (1930)
• Personality (1930)
• The Squealer (1930)
• Tol'able David (1930)
• Men in Her Life (1931)
• The Last Parade (1931)
• A Dangerous Affair (1931)
• The Night Club Lady (1932)
• The Night Mayor (1932)
• Brief Moment (1933)
• Child of Manhattan (1933)
• Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)
• Fugitive Lovers (1934)
• Rumba (1935)
• Hands Across the Table (1935)
• Paris in Spring (1935)
• The Princess Comes Across (1936)
• My Man Godfrey (1936)
• Easy Living (1937)
• Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
• True Confession (1937)
• Fools for Scandal (1938)
• Artists and Models Abroad (1938)
• Remember the Night (1940)
• The Mad Doctor (1941)
• The Road to Zanzibar (1941)
• I Married a Witch (1942)
• The Lady is Willing (1942)
• The Talk of the Town (1942) – Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography
• You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
• The More the Merrier (1943)
• The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
• Notorious (1946)

As director

• Riffraff (1947)
• Fighting Father Dunne (1948)
• The Window (1949)
• Johnny Allegro (1949)
• A Dangerous Profession (1949)
• The White Tower (1950)
• Gambling House (1951)
• The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952)
• Terror on a Train (1953) (aka Time Bomb)
• Son of Sinbad (1955)
• The Young Land (1959)

External links

• Ted Tetzlaff at IMDb
• Ted Tetzlaff They Shoot Pictures