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Georges Specht

Georges Specht (4 July 1883 - 9 December 1971[1]) was a French cinematographer.

Life

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Scene from L'Autre devoir (1915).

He was born in Bourges with the name Georges Auguste Bonjour, an illegitimate son of Jean Georges Specht and Annette Bonjour - his father recognised him some years later and granted him his surname.[2] Passionate about photography, he came to Paris in 1905. There began working as a professional photographer before joining Gaumont in 1906, wherein he was assigned to Léonce Perret as his cinematographer.

He also contributed to several films, mainly shorts - directed (and often starred in) by Perret between 1910 and 1917 such as Molière (1910) and Le Roi de la montagne (1916). He collaborated with several other directors such as Jacques Feyder (1921's L'Atlantide), Marcel L'Herbier (1924's L'Inhumaine and two other films) and Abel Gance (the 1924 short Au secours !), who played a young Molière in the 1910 film of that name.

His last fiction film was La Brière (1925), directed by Léon Poirier, with whom Specht went on the Black Expedition (1924-1925) and Yellow Expedition (1931-1932). He was also cinematographer on the two resulting documentaries, La Croisière noire (directed by Poirier, 1926) and La Croisière jaune (initially directed by André Sauvage then by Poirier, 1934), his last credit as cinematographer. He returned to documentaries one more time in 1954's short Les Deux Visages du Sahara, directed by Jean Lehérissey, on which Specht was a camera operator. Also in 1954 he was made an Officer of the Order of the Black Star,[3] dying fifteen years later in Montfermeil.

Selected filmography

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As cinematographer unless otherwise noted.

Directed by Léonce Perret

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Directed by Henri Desfontaines

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Directed by Léon Poirier

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Directed by Marcel L'Herbier

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Other directors

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References (in French)

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