Mini-Biography:
Merritt B. Gerstad was born on July 5, 1900 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an American Kameramann, known for Call of the flesh (1930), Freaks (1932), Daybreak (1931), Merritt B. Gerstad's first movie on record is from 1926. Merritt B. Gerstad died on March 1, 1974 in Laguna Beach, California, US. His last motion picture on file dates from 1945.
FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
1945: Conflict (Konflikt, Tatort Springfield) (Kamera), Directed by Curtis Bernhardt, with Humphrey Bogart, Charles Drake, James Flavin,
1943: Watch on the Rhine (Die Wacht am Rhein) (Kamera), Directed by Herman Shumlin, with Bette Davis, Paul Lukacs, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
1936: The great Ziegfeld (Der grosse Ziegfeld) (Kamera), Directed by Robert Z. Leonard, with Virginia Bruce, Herman Bing, Ray Bolger,
1935: A Night at the Opera (Die Marx Brothers in der Oper, Skandal in der Oper) (Kamera), Directed by Sam Wood, with Kitty Carlisle, Margaret Dumont, Alan Jones,
1934: Imitation of Life (Kamera), Directed by John M. Stahl, with Claudette Colbert, , Rochelle Hudson,
1933: Only Yesterday (Eine Frau vergisst nicht, Eine Frau, die nicht vergisst) (Kamera), Directed by John M. Stahl, with Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver,
1933: The Secret of Madame Blanche (Kamera), Directed by Charles Brabin, with Irene Dunne, Lionel Atwill, Phillips Holmes,
1932: Freaks (Missgestaltete) (Kamera), Directed by Tod Browning, with Roscoe Ates, Olga Baclanova, Daisy Earles,
1932: Payment deferred (Zahlungsaufschub) (Kamera), Directed by Lothar Mendes, with Charles Laughton, Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan,
1931: Daybreak (Kamera), Directed by Jacques Feyder, with William Bakewell, Helen Chandler, Jean Hersholt,
1930: Call of the flesh (Der Sänger von Sevilla, Die Novize von St. Augustin) (Kamera), Directed by Charles Brabin, with Renée Adorée, Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan,
1930: A Lady to Love (Die Sehnsucht jeder Frau) (Kamera), Directed by Victor Sjöström, with Vilma Banky, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ames,
1929: Devil-May-Care (Der jüngste Leutnant, Der Leutnant des Kaisers) (Kamera), Directed by Sidney Franklin, with Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Jordan, ,
1929: Tide of Empire (Goldjäger in Kalifornien) (Kamera), Directed by Allan Dwan, with Tom Keene, Renée Adorée, George Fawcett,
1929: Navy Blues (Kamera), Directed by Clarence Brown, with William Haines, Anita Page, Karl Dane,
1929: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Die Brücke von San Luis Rey) (Kamera), Directed by Charles Brabin, with Lili Damita, Don Alvarado, Ernest Torrence,
1928: Forbidden Hours (Verbotene Stunden) (Kamera), Directed by Harry Beaumont, with Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Dorothy Cumming,
1927: The Unknown (Der Mann ohne Hände, Der Unbekannte) (Kamera), Directed by Tod Browning, with Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford,
1926: The Ice Flood (Kamera: (AKA Merritt Gerstad)), Directed by George B. Seitz, with Kenneth Harlan, Viola Dana, Frank Hagney,