Franz Planer


Franz Planer, A.S.C. was an Austrian-American cinematographer, later naturalized in the United States.

Life

Planer was born on 29 March 1894 in Chomutov, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, but his family came from Ústí nad Labem. He studied photography in Vienna in the 1910s and started to work there as cinematographer. He then moved to Germany and shot his first film Storms in May there in 1919. In 1923, he married a Jewish woman in Církvice in Czechoslovakia.
When the Nazis came to power, he decided to move from Germany to Austria and then to Great Britain. Because of his Jewish wife, he left Europe in 1937 and moved to the United States. He decided to change his name to Frank Planer, this time officially and permanently.
He shot over 130 movies in Cinema of [the United States|Hollywood], including Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Big Country and Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Partial filmography

Storms in May The War of the Oxen The Monastery's Hunter The Fountain of Madness Night of the Burglar The Drums of Asia Monna Vanna The Favourite of the Queen Trutzi from Trutzberg Destiny Love's Finale Darling, Count the Cash Her Husband's Wife Tea Time in the Ackerstrasse Only a Dancing Girl The Son of Hannibal How Do I Marry the Boss? The Eighteen Year Old Queen of the Boulevards The Bordello in Rio Break-in Volga Volga The Duty to Remain Silent Strauss Is Playing Today The Green Alley Women on the Edge The Love of the Brothers Rott Hans in Every Street Retreat on the Rhine Helene Willfüer, Student of Chemistry The Road to Paradise The Son of the White Mountain Calais-Dover The Office Manager No More Love The Prince of Arcadia The First Right of the Child The Countess of Monte Cristo The Black Hussar Sailor's Song Gently My Songs Entreat Her Highness the Saleswoman A City Upside Down The Hymn of Leuthen Unfinished Symphony Maskerade Moscow Nights So Ended a Great Love The Princess's Whim The Typist Gets Married Turn of the Tide The Divine Spark Thank You, Madame The Beloved Vagabond Harvest Flowers from Nice Such Great Foolishness Capers The Charm of La Boheme Premiere Holiday Glamour for Sale The Face Behind the Mask Our Wife Daring Young Man Appointment in Berlin My Kingdom for a Cook Secret Command I Love a Bandleader Her Sister's Secret The Chase One Touch of Venus Letter from an Unknown Woman Champion Criss Cross Illegal Entry Take One False Step Cyrano de Bergerac The Blue Veil The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. The Caine Mutiny 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Not as a Stranger The Pride and the Passion The Big Country King of Kings Breakfast at Tiffany's The Children's Hour

Academy Award Nominations