Oliver T. Marsh
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Born | January 30, 1892 Kansas City, MO |
Died | May 5, 1941 Hollywood, California |
Occupation | Cinematographer |
Oliver T. Marsh (January 30, 1892 – May 5, 1941) was a prolific Hollywood cinematographer. He worked on over eighty films just for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer alone.[1]
Marsh was born January 30, 1892, in Kansas City, Missouri. He is the brother of actresses Marguerite Marsh (1888–1925) and Mae Marsh (1894–1968), as well as editor Frances Marsh, and the father of jazz saxophonist Warne Marsh (1927–1987).
Marsh worked on Sadie Thompson (1928), Rain (1932), The Merry Widow (1934), David Copperfield (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), The Great Ziegfeld (1936), San Francisco (1936) and Another Thin Man (1939). He and Allen Davey received Academy Honorary Awards "for the color cinematography of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production, Sweethearts"[2] (1938) at the 11th Academy Awards. The pair were also nominated for Best Cinematography (Color) for Bitter Sweet (1940).[3]
He died May 5, 1941, and is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Partial filmography
- Dodging a Million (1918)
- The Floor Below (1918)
- Joan of Plattsburg (1918)
- All Woman (1918)
- A Virtuous Vamp (1919)
- Good References (1920)
- The Point of View (1920)
- The Perfect Woman (1920)
- Dangerous Business (1920)
- Something Different (1920)
- Mama's Affair (1921)
- Wedding Bells (1921)
- Woman's Place (1921)
- Red Hot Romance (1922)
- The Mohican's Daughter (1922)
- Peacock Alley (1922)
- Fascination (1922)
- Broadway Rose (1922)
- Jazzmania (1923)
- The French Doll (1923)
- Fashion Row (1923)
- The Unknown Purple (1923)
- Daring Love (1924)
- Married Flirts (1924)
- Circe, the Enchantress (1924)
- The Merry Widow (1925)
- The Midshipman (1925)
- Time, the Comedian (1925)
- The Masked Bride (1925)
- Soul Mates (1925)
- Kiki (1926)
- The Duchess of Buffalo (1926)
- Camille (1926)
- Annie Laurie (1927)
- The Enemy (1927)
- The Dove (1927)
- Sadie Thompson (1928)
- The Divine Woman (1928)
- The Smart Set (1928)
- The Masks of the Devil (1928)
- Dream of Love (1928)
- Eternal Love (1929)
- The Single Standard (1929)
- Marianne (1929) (silent and musical versions)
- Our Modern Maidens (1929)
- Untamed (1929)
- Not So Dumb (1930)
- Strictly Unconventional (1930)
- In Gay Madrid (1930)
- The Florodora Girl (1930)
- Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
- New Moon (1930)
- The Bachelor Father (1931)
- It's a Wise Child (1931)
- Just a Gigolo (1931)
- The Man in Possession (1931)
- The Phantom of Paris (1931)
- New Adventures of Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1931)
- The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
- Possessed (1931)
- Emma (1932)
- Arsène Lupin (1932)
- But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)
- Divorce in the Family (1932)
- Rain (1932)
- Faithless (1932)
- The Son-Daughter (1932)
- Today We Live (1933)
- Night Flight (1933)
- Dancing Lady (1933)
- The Merry Widow (1934)
- David Copperfield (1935)
- One New York Night (1935)
- Baby Face Harrington (1935)
- No More Ladies (1935)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
- Small Town Girl (1936)
- San Francisco (1936)
- Women Are Trouble (1936)
- His Brother's Wife (1936)
- Maytime (1937)
- The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937) (uncredited)
- The Firefly (1937)
- Rosalie (1937)
- The Girl of the Golden West (1938)
- The Toy Wife (1938)
- The Crowd Roars (1938) (uncredited)
- Sweethearts (1938)
- The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
- Broadway Serenade (1939)
- It's a Wonderful World (1939)
- The Women (1939)
- Another Thin Man (1939)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
- I Love You Again (1940)
- Bitter Sweet (1940)
- The Wild Man of Borneo (1941)
- Blonde Inspiration (1941)
- Rage in Heaven (1941)
- Lady Be Good (1941)
References
External links
- Oliver T. Marsh at IMDb
- Oliver T. Marsh at Find a Grave
- Oliver Marsh passport photo, 1920, for entry into Cuba with cast and crew of Something Different (flickr)
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- Warner Bros. / Charlie Chaplin (1928)
- Walt Disney (1932)
- Shirley Temple (1934)
- D. W. Griffith (1935)
- The March of Time / W. Howard Greene and Harold Rosson (1936)
- Edgar Bergen / W. Howard Greene / Museum of Modern Art Film Library / Mack Sennett (1937)
- J. Arthur Ball / Walt Disney / Deanna Durbin and Mickey Rooney / Gordon Jennings, Jan Domela, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, Farciot Edouart, Loyal Griggs, Loren L. Ryder, Harry D. Mills, Louis Mesenkop, Walter Oberst / Oliver T. Marsh and Allen Davey / Harry Warner (1938)
- Douglas Fairbanks / Judy Garland / William Cameron Menzies / Motion Picture Relief Fund (Jean Hersholt, Ralph Morgan, Ralph Block, Conrad Nagel)/ Technicolor Company (1939)
- Bob Hope / Nathan Levinson (1940)
- Walt Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company / Leopold Stokowski and his associates / Rey Scott / British Ministry of Information (1941)
- Charles Boyer / Noël Coward / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1942)
- George Pal (1943)
- Bob Hope / Margaret O'Brien (1944)
- Republic Studio, Daniel J. Bloomberg, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / Walter Wanger / The House I Live In / Peggy Ann Garner (1945)
- Harold Russell / Laurence Olivier / Ernst Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946)
- James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine (1947)
- Walter Wanger / Monsieur Vincent / Sid Grauman / Adolph Zukor (1948)
- Jean Hersholt / Fred Astaire / Cecil B. DeMille / The Bicycle Thief (1949)
- Louis B. Mayer / George Murphy / The Walls of Malapaga (1950)
- Gene Kelly / Rashomon (1951)
- Merian C. Cooper / Bob Hope / Harold Lloyd / George Mitchell / Joseph M. Schenck / Forbidden Games (1952)
- 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation / Bell & Howell Company / Joseph Breen / Pete Smith (1953)
- Bausch & Lomb Optical Company / Danny Kaye / Kemp Niver / Greta Garbo / Jon Whiteley / Vincent Winter / Gate of Hell (1954)
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1955)
- Eddie Cantor (1956)
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers / Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson / Charles Brackett / B. B. Kahane (1957)
- Maurice Chevalier (1958)
- Buster Keaton / Lee de Forest (1959)
- Gary Cooper / Stan Laurel / Hayley Mills (1960)
- William L. Hendricks / Fred L. Metzler / Jerome Robbins (1961)
- William J. Tuttle (1964)
- Bob Hope (1965)
- Yakima Canutt / Y. Frank Freeman (1966)
- Arthur Freed (1967)
- John Chambers / Onna White (1968)
- Cary Grant (1969)
- Lillian Gish / Orson Welles (1970)
- Charlie Chaplin (1971)
- Charles S. Boren / Edward G. Robinson (1972)
- Henri Langlois / Groucho Marx (1973)
- Howard Hawks / Jean Renoir (1974)
- Mary Pickford (1975)
- Margaret Booth (1977)
- Walter Lantz / Laurence Olivier / King Vidor / Museum of Modern Art Department of Film (1978)
- Hal Elias / Alec Guinness (1979)
- Henry Fonda (1980)
- Barbara Stanwyck (1981)
- Mickey Rooney (1982)
- Hal Roach (1983)
- James Stewart / National Endowment for the Arts (1984)
- Paul Newman / Alex North (1985)
- Ralph Bellamy (1986)
- Eastman Kodak Company / National Film Board of Canada (1988)
- Akira Kurosawa (1989)
- Sophia Loren / Myrna Loy (1990)
- Satyajit Ray (1991)
- Federico Fellini (1992)
- Deborah Kerr (1993)
- Michelangelo Antonioni (1994)
- Kirk Douglas / Chuck Jones (1995)
- Michael Kidd (1996)
- Stanley Donen (1997)
- Elia Kazan (1998)
- Andrzej Wajda (1999)
- Jack Cardiff / Ernest Lehman (2000)
- Sidney Poitier / Robert Redford (2001)
- Peter O'Toole (2002)
- Blake Edwards (2003)
- Sidney Lumet (2004)
- Robert Altman (2005)
- Ennio Morricone (2006)
- Robert F. Boyle (2007)
- Lauren Bacall / Roger Corman / Gordon Willis (2009)
- Kevin Brownlow / Jean-Luc Godard / Eli Wallach (2010)
- James Earl Jones / Dick Smith (2011)
- D. A. Pennebaker / Hal Needham / George Stevens Jr. (2012)
- Angela Lansbury / Steve Martin / Piero Tosi (2013)
- Jean-Claude Carrière / Hayao Miyazaki / Maureen O'Hara (2014)
- Spike Lee / Gena Rowlands (2015)
- Jackie Chan / Lynn Stalmaster / Anne V. Coates / Frederick Wiseman (2016)
- Charles Burnett / Owen Roizman / Donald Sutherland / Agnès Varda (2017)
- Marvin Levy / Lalo Schifrin / Cicely Tyson (2018)
- David Lynch / Wes Studi / Lina Wertmüller (2019)
- Samuel L. Jackson / Elaine May / Liv Ullmann (2021)
- Euzhan Palcy / Diane Warren / Peter Weir (2022)
- Angela Bassett / Mel Brooks / Carol Littleton (2023)