Harry J. Wild (1901-1961)

Gallery Unavailable

Alias:
Harry Wild
Harry Wilde

Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA

Born:
July 5, 1901

Died:
February 24, 1961

Harry J. Wild, A.S.C. (July 5, 1901 - February 24, 1961) was a film and television cinematographer. Wild worked at RKO Pictures studios from 1931 through the 1950s. In total Wild was involved in 91 major film projects and two extended television series.  In 1931, he began his career and was hired as second cameraman and operator on nine projects, most notably Fred Niblo's Young Donovan'a Kid (1931). In 1936, Wild shot his first feature, Wallace Fox's sports drama The Big Game. Two years later he shared an Academy Award nomination for the Republic Pictures film Army Girl (1938).  According to film critic Spencer Selby, Wild was a prolific film noir cinematographer, shooting 13 of them, including: Dmytryk's Murder, My Sweet (1944), Johnny Angel (1945), Nocturne (1946), the Jean Renoir-directed The Woman on the Beach (1947), They Won't Believe Me (1947), and others. He was also, in the early 1950s, Jane Russell's cinematographer; he worked on seven of her movies as an actress, three of which were released by other studios: His Kind of Woman (1951) and Son of Paleface (1952) for Paramount, and, his most widely seen movie, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) for Twentieth Century-Fox.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Additional Director of Photography:
1950  Born to Be Bad

Camera Operator:
1932  The Lost Squadron
1950  Born to Be Bad

Cinematography:
1932  The Lost Squadron
1937  Racing Lady
1939  The Fighting Gringo
1939  The Wrong Room
1949  A Woman's Secret
1950  Born to Be Bad

Director of Photography:
1932  The Lost Squadron
1936  The Big Game
1937  Don't Tell the Wife
1937  Many Unhappy Returns
1937  Racing Lady
1938  Army Girl
1938  Lawless Valley
1938  Painted Desert
1939  Arizona Legion
1939  Racketeers of the Range
1939  The Fighting Gringo
1939  The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939  The Rookie Cop
1939  The Wrong Room
1939  Timber Stampede
1939  Trouble in Sundown
1940  Bullet Code
1940  Legion of the Lawless
1940  Millionaires in Prison
1940  The Fargo Kid
1941  Cyclone on Horseback
1941  Dude Cowboy
1941  Six-Gun Gold
1941  The Bandit Trail
1941  The Saint In Palm Springs
1942  Come on Danger
1942  Land of the Open Range
1942  Valley of the Sun
1943  Rookies in Burma
1943  So This Is Washington
1943  Stage Door Canteen
1943  Tarzan Triumphs
1943  Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1944  Mademoiselle Fifi
1944  Murder, My Sweet
1944  Nevada
1944  The Falcon Out West
1945  Cornered
1945  First Yank into Tokyo
1945  Johnny Angel
1945  Radio Stars on Parade
1945  Wanderer of the Wasteland
1945  West of the Pecos
1946  Nocturne
1946  The Falcon's Adventure
1946  Till the End of Time
1947  The Woman on the Beach
1947  They Won't Believe Me
1947  Tycoon
1948  Pitfall
1948  Station West
1949  A Woman's Secret
1949  Easy Living
1949  Strange Bargain
1949  The Big Steal
1949  The Threat
1950  Born to Be Bad
1950  Gambling House
1950  Walk Softly, Stranger
1951  His Kind of Woman
1951  My Forbidden Past
1951  Two Tickets to Broadway
1952  Macao
1952  Son of Paleface
1952  The Las Vegas Story
1953  Affair with a Stranger
1953  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1954  She Couldn't Say No
1954  The French Line
1955  Top Of The World
1955  Underwater!
1956  The Conqueror

First Assistant Camera:
1926  The General
1932  The Lost Squadron
1936  The Big Game
1937  Don't Tell the Wife
1937  Many Unhappy Returns
1937  Racing Lady
1938  Army Girl
1938  Lawless Valley
1938  Painted Desert
1939  Arizona Legion
1939  Racketeers of the Range
1939  The Fighting Gringo
1939  The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939  The Rookie Cop
1939  The Wrong Room
1939  Timber Stampede
1939  Trouble in Sundown
1940  Bullet Code
1940  Legion of the Lawless
1940  Millionaires in Prison
1940  The Fargo Kid
1941  Cyclone on Horseback
1941  Dude Cowboy
1941  Six-Gun Gold
1941  The Bandit Trail
1941  The Saint In Palm Springs
1942  Come on Danger
1942  Land of the Open Range
1942  Valley of the Sun
1943  Rookies in Burma
1943  So This Is Washington
1943  Stage Door Canteen
1943  Tarzan Triumphs
1943  Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1944  Mademoiselle Fifi
1944  Murder, My Sweet
1944  Nevada
1944  The Falcon Out West
1945  Cornered
1945  First Yank into Tokyo
1945  Johnny Angel
1945  Radio Stars on Parade
1945  Wanderer of the Wasteland
1945  West of the Pecos
1946  Nocturne
1946  The Falcon's Adventure
1946  Till the End of Time
1947  The Woman on the Beach
1947  They Won't Believe Me
1947  Tycoon
1948  Pitfall
1948  Station West
1949  A Woman's Secret
1949  Easy Living
1949  Strange Bargain
1949  The Big Steal
1949  The Threat
1950  Born to Be Bad
1950  Gambling House
1950  Walk Softly, Stranger
1951  His Kind of Woman
1951  My Forbidden Past
1951  Two Tickets to Broadway
1952  Macao
1952  Son of Paleface
1952  The Las Vegas Story
1953  Affair with a Stranger
1953  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1954  She Couldn't Say No
1954  The French Line
1955  Top Of The World
1955  Underwater!
1956  The Conqueror

Still Photographer:
1926  The General
1932  The Lost Squadron
1936  The Big Game
1937  Don't Tell the Wife
1937  Many Unhappy Returns
1937  Racing Lady
1938  Army Girl
1938  Lawless Valley
1938  Painted Desert
1939  Arizona Legion
1939  Racketeers of the Range
1939  The Fighting Gringo
1939  The Marshal Of Mesa City
1939  The Rookie Cop
1939  The Wrong Room
1939  Timber Stampede
1939  Trouble in Sundown
1940  Bullet Code
1940  Legion of the Lawless
1940  Millionaires in Prison
1940  Stage to Chino
1940  The Fargo Kid
1941  Cyclone on Horseback
1941  Dude Cowboy
1941  Six-Gun Gold
1941  The Bandit Trail
1941  The Saint In Palm Springs
1942  Come on Danger
1942  Land of the Open Range
1942  Valley of the Sun
1943  Rookies in Burma
1943  So This Is Washington
1943  Stage Door Canteen
1943  Tarzan Triumphs
1943  Tarzan's Desert Mystery
1944  Mademoiselle Fifi
1944  Murder, My Sweet
1944  Nevada
1944  The Falcon Out West
1945  Cornered
1945  First Yank into Tokyo
1945  Johnny Angel
1945  Radio Stars on Parade
1945  Wanderer of the Wasteland
1945  West of the Pecos
1946  Nocturne
1946  The Falcon's Adventure
1946  Till the End of Time
1947  The Woman on the Beach
1947  They Won't Believe Me
1947  Tycoon
1948  Pitfall
1948  Station West
1949  A Woman's Secret
1949  Easy Living
1949  Strange Bargain
1949  The Big Steal
1949  The Threat
1950  Born to Be Bad
1950  Gambling House
1950  Walk Softly, Stranger
1951  His Kind of Woman
1951  My Forbidden Past
1951  Two Tickets to Broadway
1952  Macao
1952  Son of Paleface
1952  The Las Vegas Story
1953  Affair with a Stranger
1953  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1954  She Couldn't Say No
1954  The French Line
1955  Top Of The World
1955  Underwater!
1956  The Conqueror

Director of Photography:
1959  Black Saddle
1959  Law of the Plainsman
1959  The Twilight Zone

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.