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Harry Birch was an American cinematographer who worked in the film industry from the 1920s to the 1950s. He was born on March 9, 1895 in San Francisco, California. Birch began his career in the film industry in the 1920s, working as a camera assistant and cinematographer on a number of silent films. He worked on films such as The Iron Horse (1924), The Big Parade (1925), and The Crowd (1928). In the 1930s, Birch worked on a number of films, including The Public Enemy (1931), Little Caesar (1931), and Scarface (1932). He also worked on a number of westerns, including The Plainsman (1936), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), and The Westerner (1940). Birch continued to work in the film industry throughout the 1940s and 1950s, working on films such as The Ox-Bow Incident (1943), The Big Sleep (1946), and The Gunfighter (1950). Birch died on April 15, 1959 in Los Angeles, California. He was 64 years old.

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Occupation camera_department,cinematographer
Age 73 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 9 March 1895
Birthday 9 March
Birthplace San Francisco, California, USA
Date of death 14 August, 1968
Died Place Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Nationality United States

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1951

In 1951 he shot film for a very young Robert Altman directed a film called Modern Football. When television came into play Harry worked for WBKB the first TV station in Chicago and was in charge of the camera department. Among the studio shows he shoe was the kids puppet show Kukla, Fran, and Ollie and continued to work until he retired at age 65.

1933

He was on the activities at the "Century of Progress" at Chicago World's Fair of 1933.

1915

He became a newsreel cameraman for Fox News Reel around 1915, and worked in that capacity for several years, until he opened his own company called Birch Films. He continued to shoot news, but went into promotional films, scenic films, short subjects, industrials, travel films, etc. Among the noted companies he shot for were Castle Films, travelogues for Burton Holmes the Man Who Photographed the World:, Santa Fe RR and the Chicago Northwestern RR, and Wilding Studios the former production company Essanay Film Manufacturing Studios.

1906

As a child he lived through the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He moved to Los Angeles when he was a teenager going to work for a an entrepreneur named Kelly who owned movie studio and theaters. Birch learned the trade of a projectionist. Kelly opened a theater in Chicago and sent the young Birch there work. He found his real vocation in Chicago when he became interested in shooting film and learned how to be a cameraman.

1894

Harry Birch was born in San Francisco in 1894.