Ted Tetzlaff
Ted Dale Tetzlaff 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.
His father was racecar driver and film stuntman Teddy Tetzlaff.
Selected filmography
As cinematographer
- Atta Boy
- Sunshine of Paradise Alley
- Ragtime
- Polly of the Movies
- The Masked Angel
- The Apache
- The Power of the Press
- Into No Man's Land
- Stool Pigeon
- The Devil's Cage
- The Donovan Affair
- Hurricane
- The Younger Generation
- Mexicali Rose
- Acquitted
- The Faker
- Hell's Island
- Soldiers and Women
- Personality
- The Squealer
- Tol'able David
- Men in Her Life
- The Lightning Flyer
- The Last Parade
- A Dangerous Affair
- The Night Club Lady
- The Night Mayor
- Man Against Woman
- This Sporting Age
- Brief Moment
- Child of Manhattan
- Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round
- Fugitive Lovers
- Rumba
- Hands Across the Table
- Paris in Spring
- The Princess Comes Across
- My Man Godfrey
- Easy Living
- Swing High, Swing Low
- True Confession
- Fools for Scandal
- Artists and Models Abroad
- Remember the Night
- The Mad Doctor
- The Road to Zanzibar
- I Married a Witch
- The Lady is Willing
- The Talk of the Town – Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography
- You Were Never Lovelier
- The More the Merrier
- The Enchanted Cottage
- ''Notorious''
As director
- Riffraff
- Fighting Father Dunne
- The Window
- Johnny Allegro
- A Dangerous Profession
- The White Tower
- Gambling House
- The Treasure of Lost Canyon
- Terror on a Train
- Son of Sinbad
- ''The Young Land''