Quiz

Educated at the University of Göttingen and University of Bonn.

At the beginning he often filmed productions of the legendary director Ernst Lubitsch for whom he worked till 1922.

He cemented his outstanding reputation in the 20s and in the next years he worked for many other well-known directors beside Ernst Lubitsch.

Theodor Sparkuhl left Germany and he worked in England and France till 1931.

He went to the USA together with his family in 1931 where he was able to continue his film career at Paramount.

His profession as seller of movie projectors led him to different distant countries and during World War I he was present as a cinematographer at different theaters of war.

The son of a bank director, he began his career as a salesman of film projectors in 1911. He was trained as a camera operator at Gaumont in 1912 and, thereafter, worked steadily as a newsreel cameraman until the end of World War I. He became a full director of photography in 1918, remaining in German films until 1928 (including several pictures under the direction of Ernst Lubitsch). Sparkuhl had a spell at BIP in London (1928-30) and then moved to Hollywood, via France. His most polished work under contract to Paramount was on the French Legion drama Beau Geste (1939).

He turned his interest to the cinema and he began to work as a cinematographer for movies from 1916.

The cinematographer Theodor Sparkuhl began his professional career as a seller of movie projectors and afterwards he went go Gaumont in Berlin in 1912 in order to join an education as a cinematographer for newsreels.

In the USA he asserted himself soon and he was engaged for numerous movies in the next years.