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Mar 28, 1897 Manhattan, New York, United States Died on 07 Dec 1973 (aged 76)
American cinematographer
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About Philip Tannura
- Philip Tannura (March 28, 1897 – December 7, 1973) was an American cinematographer who worked on over a hundred films during his career.
- Tannura also directed and acted in several short films and worked on a number of Three Stooges shorts as cinematographer. Tannura spent much of his career making mid to low-budget films for a variety of different Hollywood studios.
- In the early 1930s he went to London to work in the booming British film industry.
- He was able to work on more expensive, quality productions during these years including several films produced by the Hungarian-born tycoon Max Schach.
- Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he returned to America.
- In 1941, he was cinematographer for the Rita Hayworth and Fred Astaire musical You'll Never Get Rich.
- Generally much of his later work, often at Columbia Pictures, was on film series such as the Lone Wolf and The Whistler.
- From the early 1950s to the end of his career, he worked in television.
