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Karl Struss

Highest Rated: 98% Sunrise (1927)

Lowest Rated: 44% Coquette (1929)

Birthday: Nov 30, 1886

Birthplace: New York, New York, USA

Began his career as a commercial photographer and entered film in 1919, serving a three-year stint as cameraman for Cecil B. DeMille. Struss then went freelance and gained renown for his work on "Ben Hur" (1926), particularly in his use of filters to effect visual transformations--a technique he repeated to great effect in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1932).

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Highest-Rated Movies

98% 92% Sunrise
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96% 84% Ben-Hur
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95% 71% The Fly Watchlist 92% 95% The Great Dictator Watchlist
88% 90% Limelight
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88% 57% Belle of the Nineties
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88% 81% Island of Lost Souls
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86% 62% The Story of Temple Drake
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83% 25% Anything Goes
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71% 50% Kronos
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Filmography

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Counterplot 1959 Cinematographer The Rebel Set 8% 1959 Cinematographer The Alligator People 23% 1959 Cinematographer The Sad Horse 1959 Cinematographer Machete 1958 Cinematographer The Fly 95% 71% 1958 Cinematographer Kronos 71% 50% 1957 Cinematographer Poverty and Nobility 83% 1954 Cinematographer Fatal Desire 1953 Cinematographer The Mesa of Lost Women 17% 1953 Cinematographer Limelight 88% 90% 1952 Cinematographer Rose of Cimarron 1952 Cinematographer It's a Small World 1950 Cinematographer The Return of Jesse James 1950 Cinematographer Bad Boy 1949 Cinematographer The Dude Goes West 17% 1948 Cinematographer The Macomber Affair 67% 58% 1947 Cinematographer Heaven Only Knows 1947 Cinematographer Suspense 36% 1946 Cinematographer Mr. Ace 1946 Cinematographer Bring on the Girls 1945 Cinematographer And the Angels Sing 1944 Cinematographer Happy Go Lucky 1943 Cinematographer Riding High 1943 Cinematographer Caught in the Draft 75% 1941 Cinematographer
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