Ted Tetzlaff

Dale H. "Ted" Tetzlaff (3 June 1903, Los Angeles, California – 7 January 1995, Sausalito, California) was a noted Academy Award-nominated Hollywood cinematographer active in the 1930s and 1940s. He was particularly favored by the actress Carole Lombard, who he photographed in 10 films.^[1]

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

• Men in Her Life (1931)
• Brief Moment (1933)
• Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)
• Rumba (1935)
• The Princess Comes Across (1936)
• My Man Godfrey (1936)
• Easy Living (1937)
• Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
• True Confession (1937)
• I Married a Witch (1942)
• The Talk of the Town (1942) – Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography
• You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
• The More the Merrier (1943)
• Notorious (1946)

As director

• Riffraff (1947)
• The Window (1949)
• The White Tower (1950)
• Under the Gun (1951)
• The Young Land (1959)

References

External links

• Ted Tetzlaff at the Internet Movie Database
• Ted Tetzlaff They Shoot Pictures