Michel Kelber

Michel Kelber
Born	1908 Kiev, Russian Empire
Died	23 October 1996 Paris, France
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1928-1993 (film)

Michel Kelber (1908–1996) was a French cinematographer. Beginning in the late 1920s, he worked on more than a hundred film productions during a lengthy career. Born in Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire, he studied art and architecture in Paris. He started worked as an assistant cameraman in 1928, before progressing to cinematographer four years later. He worked with leading directors such as Jean Renoir, René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Claude Autant-Lara. He also worked for periods in Spain, including during the wartime German Occupation of France.

Selected filmography

• Gold in the Street (1934)
• Zouzou (1934)
• School for Coquettes (1935)
• Baccara (1935)
• La Vie parisienne (1936)
• Adventure in Paris (1936)
• Forty Little Mothers (1936)
• Under Western Eyes (1936)
• Life Dances On (1937)
• The Courier of Lyon (1937)
• I Was an Adventuress (1938)
• Rasputin (1938)
• Hercule (1938)
• Girls in Distress (1939)
• Personal Column (1939)
• Savage Brigade (1939)
• Thunder Over Paris (1940)
• Goyescas (1942)
• Intrigue (1942)
• The Scandal (1943)
• House of Cards (1943)
• Lola Montes (1944)
• The Phantom and Dona Juanita (1945)
• Bamboo (1945)
• White Mission (1946)
• Les Parents terribles (1948)
• Saturday Night (1950)
• The Straw Lover (1951)
• The Great Galeoto (1951)
• Our Lady of Fatima (1951)
• From Madrid to Heaven (1952)
• Lovers of Toledo (1953)
• The Lovers of Midnight (1953)
• Nobody Will Know (1953)
• The Beautiful Otero (1954)
• The Red and the Black (1954)
• French Cancan (1955)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
• Calle Mayor (1956)
• The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
• Lovers of Paris (1957)
• Magnificent Sinner (1959)
• College Boarding House (1959)
• John Paul Jones (1959)
• Litri and His Shadow (1960)
• Jack of Spades (1960)
• Bombs on Monte Carlo (1960)
• The Nina B. Affair (1961)
• Rogelia (1962)
• A View from the Bridge (1962)
• In the French Style (1963)
• Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1964)
• Nights of Farewell (1965)
• A Woman in White (1965)
• Johnny Banco (1967)
• The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968)
• Blood in the Bullring (1969)

Bibliography

• Larry Langman. Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking. McFarland, 2000.

External links

• Michel Kelber at IMDb