Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack was an American motion picture cinematographer, director, and producer. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Schoedsack is probably best remembered for being the co-director of the 1933 film, King Kong. Schoedsack was fascinated with the mechanics of film photography long before taking his first movie job with the Keystone Studios in 1914.

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  • Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack was an American motion picture cinematographer, director, and producer. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Schoedsack is probably best remembered for being the co-director of the 1933 film, King Kong. Schoedsack was fascinated with the mechanics of film photography long before taking his first movie job with the Keystone Studios in 1914. During World War I, he worked as a Signal Corps cameraman, and after the Armistice he worked on behalf of Polish war relief, helping thousand of Poles escape the Russian occupied territories. While in Ukraine in 1920 he met Captain Merian C. Cooper, who, like Schoedsack, was a fervent anti-Bolshevik and also an aspiring film director. The men renewed their friendship after the hostilities, collaborating on several documentary films, Grass (1925) and Chang (1927). Still in partnership with Cooper, Schoedsack co-directed the fictional adventure film The Four Feathers (1929), then, after another documentary, the Cooper-Schoedsack team helmed RKO's The Most Dangerous Game (1932), which featured Four Feathers leading lady Fay Wray. Concurrently with Game, Schoedsack, Cooper, and O'Brien launched their most ambitious project to date: King Kong (1933), also with Wray. Ruth Rose, Schoedsack's wife and an adventure lover in her own right, collaborated on the Kong screenplay. When Merian Cooper assumed leadership of RKO Radio, he took Schoedsack with him as a contract director. Some of Schoedsack's projects were sedate domestic comedies like Long Lost Father (1934), while others were along the spectacular lines of The Last Days of Pompeii (1936). Schoedsack and Cooper parted ways in the late 30s, Schoedsack moving to Paramount, where he returned to the live action/miniature combo that had served him well on Kong for his first Technicolor production, Dr. Cyclops (1940). His eyesight was severely damaged in World War II, yet he continued to direct films afterwards. He directed Mighty Joe Young at RKO in 1949, which was a reunion film of the main King Kong creative team (Cooper, Rose, and O'Brien). Still on the cutting edge of technological advances in the 1950s, Schoedsack directed the in-your-face prologue of the 1952 box-office hit This is Cinerama. He and Rose are interred together at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
  • Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack war ein US-amerikanischer Kameramann, Regisseur und Filmproduzent. Schoedsack wurde bekannt durch seine Co-Regie an dem Film „King Kong und die weiße Frau“ aus dem Jahre 1933.
  • Ernest B. Schoedsack fue un productor, director de cine, montajista y escenográfo estadounidense nacido en Council Bluffs, Iowa. Schoedsack es conocido por ser el productor de la película King Kong en 1933. Falleció el 23 de diciembre de 1979 en el Condado de Los Ángeles, California.
  • Ernest B. Schoedsack est un réalisateur, directeur de la photographie, producteur, monteur, acteur et scénariste américain né le 8 juin 1893 à Council Bluffs dans l'Iowa, décédé le 23 décembre 1979 dans le Comté de Los Angeles (USA).
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  • Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack was an American motion picture cinematographer, director, and producer. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Schoedsack is probably best remembered for being the co-director of the 1933 film, King Kong. Schoedsack was fascinated with the mechanics of film photography long before taking his first movie job with the Keystone Studios in 1914.
  • Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack war ein US-amerikanischer Kameramann, Regisseur und Filmproduzent. Schoedsack wurde bekannt durch seine Co-Regie an dem Film „King Kong und die weiße Frau“ aus dem Jahre 1933.
  • Ernest B. Schoedsack fue un productor, director de cine, montajista y escenográfo estadounidense nacido en Council Bluffs, Iowa. Schoedsack es conocido por ser el productor de la película King Kong en 1933. Falleció el 23 de diciembre de 1979 en el Condado de Los Ángeles, California.
  • Ernest B. Schoedsack est un réalisateur, directeur de la photographie, producteur, monteur, acteur et scénariste américain né le 8 juin 1893 à Council Bluffs dans l'Iowa, décédé le 23 décembre 1979 dans le Comté de Los Angeles (USA).
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