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Conrad Wells
b. 1897 — d. 1930 (aged 33)
New York City, New York, USA
Cinematographer
Born Abraham Fried in c.1897, he was a cinematographer in early Hollywood specializing in outdoor and early western cinema. He died tragically along with 9 others while filming Such Men Are Dangerous (1930) off the coast near Santa Monica, the plane he was filming on collided with another plane. Both planes burst into flames before crashing into the ocean. Among the dead were the director, Kenneth Hawks and three other cameramen George Eastman, Otho Jordan, Ben Frankel and Max Gold, the Assistant Director, two property men and the two pilots.
Known For
Filmography
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★ 7.5
Let's Go Places
1930 Cinematographer
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★ 4.8
Behind That Curtain
1929 Cinematographer
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★ 6.8
The Sky Hawk
1929 Cinematographer
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★ 6.3
The Woman from Hell
1929 Cinematographer
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Captain Lash
1929 Cinematographer
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New Year's Eve
1929 Cinematographer
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True Heaven
1929 Cinematographer
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★ 7.0
Romance of the Underworld
1928 Cinematographer
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★ 6.7
Dressed to Kill
1928 Cinematographer
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★ 4.5
Dry Martini
1928 Cinematographer
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Chicken a La King
1928 Cinematographer
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★ 4.0
The Desired Woman
1927 Cinematographer
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The Brute
1927 Cinematographer
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The Swell-Head
1927 Cinematographer
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The Black Diamond Express
1927 Cinematographer
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★ 7.0
Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl
1926 Cinematographer
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The Country Beyond
1926 Cinematographer
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The Midnight Kiss
1926 Cinematographer
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Rustling for Cupid
1926 Cinematographer
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★ 4.5
The Phantom Express
1925 Cinematographer
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With This Ring
1925 Cinematographer
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Three in Exile
1925 Cinematographer
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Wreckage
1925 Cinematographer
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The Silent Guardian
1925 Cinematographer
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★ 6.3
His Forgotten Wife
1924 Cinematographer
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The Galloping Fish
1924 Cinematographer
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The Tents of Allah
1923 Cinematographer
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★ 5.5
The Man from Hell's River
1922 Cinematographer
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The Woman Who Fooled Herself
1922 Cinematographer
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Even as Eve
1920 Cinematographer
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The Good-Bad Wife
1920 Cinematographer
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Man and Woman
1920 Cinematographer