Harry J. Wild

Harry J. Wild (1900 - 1961) was a film and television cinematographer. Wild worked at RKO studios from 1931 through the 1950s. In 1936, Wild shot his first feature, and in 1936 he shared an Oscar nomination for the Republic film Army Girl (1938). During the 1930s he was the lensman for a number of film westerns. In 1942, Wild was tasked with the shooting of additional scenes for Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons. He was uncredited for his work. Wild then shot two Tarzan movies (Tarzan Triumphs and Tarzan's Desert Mystery both in 1943), and several more Westerns and war films including working with directors Robert Wise and Edward Dmytryk. Wild then went on to help create a number of film noir classics: Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet (1944), Cornered (1945), Johnny Angel (1945), Nocturne (1946), Jean Renoir-directed The Woman on the Beach (1947), They Won't Believe Me (1947), Pitfall (1948), The Threat (1949), The Big Steal (1949). He also worked uncredited on Born to Be Bad (1950), His Kind of Woman (1951), The Las Vegas Story (1952), and Josef von Sternberg's Macao (1952) with Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. In addition to film noir, Wild also worked on comedies and musicals including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), the musical comedy The French Line (1954), and the action film Underwater! (1955). In 1959, Wild became director of photography for the TV series The Twilight Zone.

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