Ted Tetzlaff

Ted Dale Tetzlaff (born Dale Herbert Tetzlaff; June 3, 1903 – January 7, 1995) was an American Academy Award-nominated 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, including 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 Lightning Flyer (1931)
• The Last Parade (1931)
• A Dangerous Affair (1931)
• The Night Club Lady (1932)
• The Night Mayor (1932)
• Man Against Woman (1932)
• This Sporting Age (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)

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