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Gordon Avil (1899-1970)

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Alias:
David Gordon Avil
J. Gordon Avil

Birthplace:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Born:
March 3, 1899

Died:
April 25, 1970

Additional information:

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Cinematography:
1956  The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
1962  Don't Knock the Twist
1965  Git!

Director of Photography:
1929  Hallelujah
1930  Billy the Kid
1931  The Champ
1936  Master Hands
1947  Christmas Eve
1948  On Our Merry Way
1953  A Bedroom Fantasy
1954  Beachhead
1954  Shield for Murder
1954  The Outlaw's Daughter
1955  Big House, U.S.A
1955  Desert Sands
1955  King Dinosaur
1955  The Big Bluff
1956  Rebel in Town
1956  The Black Sleep
1956  The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure
1957  Curfew Breakers
1957  The Best Doggoned Dog in the World
1959  Zorro, the Avenger
1960  Rapids Ahead/Bear Country
1961  Teenage Millionaire
1962  Deadly Duo
1962  Don't Knock the Twist
1962  Sammy, the Way-Out Seal
1962  The Underwater City
1962  The Wild Westerners
1962  Wild Harvest
1962  Zotz!
1963  13 Frightened Girls
1965  Convict Stage
1965  Git!
1965  War Party

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TV Production

Director of Photography:
1959  Law of the Plainsman

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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).

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