Glen MacWilliams (May 21, 1898 – April 15, 1984), was an American cinematographer.

Biography

Born in California, MacWilliams started his career in the silent days. He worked in the United Kingdom for much of the 1930s, working on several musicals with Jessie Matthews. He returned to the US in the 1940s where he worked extensively for

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, filming Laurel and Hardy's first two films for the studio and also worked with Alfred Hitchcock on ''

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'' in 1944. He had previously worked with Hitchcock on one occasion in Britain. He later worked in television on such shows as ''

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'', '' Wanted: Dead or Alive'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' before he retired in the mid-1960s.

Selected filmography

* ''Headin' South'' (1918) * ''

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'' (1920) * '' Wing Toy'' (1921) * ''

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'' (1921) * '' The Mother Heart'' (1921) * '' Ever Since Eve'' (1921) * '' The Lamplighter'' (1921) * '' Lovetime'' (1921) * '' Oliver Twist'' (1922) * '' Quicksands'' (1923) * ''

The Spider and the Rose ''The Spider and the Rose'' is a 1923 American silent historical drama film directed by John McDermott and starring Alice Lake, Richard Headrick and Gaston Glass.Munden p.755 Cast * Alice Lake as Paula * Richard Headrick as Don Marcello, as a c ...

'' (1923) *''

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'' (1923) * '' The Wheel'' (1925) * ''

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'' (1926) * '' The Return of Peter Grimm'' (1926) * ''

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'' (1927) * ''

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'' (1927) * ''

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'' (1928) * '' The Valiant'' (1929) * ''

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'' (1931) * '' While Paris Sleeps'' (1932) * '' Sleeping Car'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1934) * ''

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'' (1934) * '' The Clairvoyant'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1935) * ''

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'' (1936) * '' Head Over Heels'' (1937) * ''

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'' (1937) * ''

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'' (1937) * '' The Great Barrier'' (1937) * ''

Sailing Along ''Sailing Along'' is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Jack Whiting, Roland Young, Frank Pettingell, Noel Madison and Alastair Sim. It includes many staged song and dance ...

'' (1938) * ''

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'' (1940) * '' Dressed to Kill'' (1941) * '' Great Guns'' (1941) * '' A-Haunting We Will Go'' (1942) * ''

'' (1944) * ''

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'' (1944) * ''

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'' (1944) * ''

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'' (1946) * ''

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'' (1946) * ''If I'm Lucky'' (1946) * '' A Lust to Kill'' (1958) * ''The Iron Men'' (TV Movie) (1966)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Macwilliams, Glen 1898 births 1984 deaths American cinematographers