Maury Gertsman

Patricia Morison & Frederick Worlock in Dressed to Kill (1946)

Maury Gertsman (17 April 1907 - 13 December 1999) was a senior-ranked cinematographer at Universal Pictures from the mid-1940s through the mid-1950s.

Career

Gertsman's first film of note was Jungle Captive and he distinguished himself with his lensing of the final two Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, Terror by Night and Dressed to Kill. His most interesting project of the mid-1940s, however, was the final Rondo Hatton vehicle, The Brute Man, which made Universal sufficiently uncomfortable that they sold it off to Poverty Row distributor Producers Releasing Corporation. At American International Pictures he photographed the horror satire How to Make a Monster, while at United Artists he lensed Invisible Invaders and The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake. In 1959, he became the cinematographer on the television series Adventures in Paradise. His film work became far less frequent after 1960, although he did find himself roped into the production of The Creeping Terror in 1964. Like many of his contemporaries, Gertsman finished his career working in television, on shows like Arthur Lubin's "Mister Ed" series (1961-66) for Filmways Television and most specifically for superstar Lucille Ball and her two subsequent sitcoms "The Lucy Show" (1962-68) and "Here's Lucy" (1968-74), the latter of which was produced under her own Lucille Ball Productions, Inc. banner.

Credits

Timbuktu (1959) How to Make a Monster (1958) Kelly and Me (1957) The Creature Walks Among Us (1956) Raw Edge (1956) Everything But the Truth (1956) Never Say Goodbye (1956) I've Lived Before (1956) The Spoilers (1955) To Hell and Back (1955) One Desire (1955) Bengal Brigade (1954) So This Is Paris (1954) Tanganyka (1954) The Glass Web (1953) All American (1953) The Golden Blade (1953)

The Great Sioux Uprising (1953) Meet Me at the Fair (1953) It Grows on Trees (1952) Just Across the Street (1952) Red Ball Express (1952) Son of Ali Baba (1952) You Never Can Tell (1951 film) (1951) Meet Danny Wilson (1951) Target Unknown (1951) Comanche Territory (1950) One Way Street (1950) Louisa (1959) City Across the River (1949) Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) South Sea Sinner (1949) Rachel and the Stranger (1948) Terror by Night (1946)

External links

• Maury Gertsman at the Internet Movie Database
• Memorial for Maury Gertsman at Find A Grave

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Name	Gertsman, Maury
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Date of birth	17 April 1907
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Date of death	13 December 1999
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