Charles Van Enger

Charles Van Enger (29 August 1890 – 4 July 1980) was an American cinematographer. In the 1920s Van Enger worked on all the silent films the German director Ernst Lubitsch made for Warner Bros.^[1] During the 1930s he worked in the British film industry. His later work was largely on supporting features for Universal Pictures and various independents.

Charles Van Enger
Born	(1890-08-29)August 29, 1890 Port Jervis, New York United States
Died	July 4, 1980(1980-07-04) (aged 89) Woodland Hills, California United States
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1920–1966

Partial filmography

• The Great Redeemer (1920)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
• Salomé (1923)
• Broadway After Dark (1924)
• The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
• Kiss Me Again (1925)
• Hogan's Alley (1925)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
• Why Girls Go Back Home (1926)
• Paradise (1926)
• Puppets (1926)
• Easy Pickings (1927)
• The Sea Tiger (1927)
• The Life of Riley (1927)
• The Port of Missing Girls (1928)
• The Head of the Family (1928)
• One Mad Kiss (1930)
• Meet the Wife (1931)
• Forgotten Women (1931)
• Help Yourself (1932)
• Money Means Nothing (1932)
• Turkey Time (1933)
• I Was a Spy (1933)
• Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
• Aunt Sally (1933)
• Forbidden Territory (1934)
• My Song for You (1934)
• Me and Marlborough (1935)
• In Town Tonight (1935)
• Boys Will Be Boys (1935)
• The Stoker (1935)
• Things Are Looking Up (1935)
• Soft Lights and Sweet Music (1936)
• Ménilmontant (1936)
• Where There's a Will (1936)
• Captain Bill (1936)
• Jack of All Trades (1936)
• The Bureaucrats (1936)
• San Francisco Docks (1940)
• Moonlight in Havana (1942)
• Who Done It? (1942)
• Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
• Frisco Sal (1945)
• That Night with You (1945)
• White Tie and Tails (1946)
• Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
• Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)
• The Pecos Pistol (1949)
• Lorna Doone (1951)
• Sitting Bull (1954)
• Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954)
• Khyber Patrol (1954)
• Gun Fever (1958)

References

1. Thompson p.28

Bibliography

• Thompson, Kristin. Herr Lubitch Goes To Hollywood: German and American Film After World War I. Amsterdam University Press, 2005.

External links

• Charles Van Enger at IMDb