Ted Dale Tetzlaff (born Dale Herbert Tetzlaff; June 3, 1903 – January 7, 1995) was an American Academy Award-nominated cinematographer active in the 1930s and 1940s.
Career
Tetzlaff was particularly favored by the actress
Carole Lombard, whom he photographed in 10 films.
After World War II service as a US Army Major, he became a film director, and directed about a dozen films from 1947 to 1957, including the film noir classic The Window (1949).
His father was racecar driver and film stuntman Teddy Tetzlaff (1883–1929).
Selected filmography
As cinematographer
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Atta Boy (1926)
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Sunshine of Paradise Alley (1926)
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Ragtime (1927)
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Polly of the Movies (1927)
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The Masked Angel (1928)
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The Apache (1928)
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The Power of the Press (1928)
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Into No Man's Land (1928)
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Stool Pigeon (1928)
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The Devil's Cage (1928)
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The Donovan Affair (1929)
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Hurricane (1929)
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The Younger Generation (1929)
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Mexicali Rose (1929)
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Acquitted (1929)
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The Faker (1929)
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Hell's Island (1930)
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Soldiers and Women (1930)
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Personality (1930)
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The Squealer (1930)
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Tol'able David (1930)
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Men in Her Life (1931)
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The Lightning Flyer (1931)
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The Last Parade (1931)
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A Dangerous Affair (1931)
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The Night Club Lady (1932)
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The Night Mayor (1932)
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Man Against Woman (1932)
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This Sporting Age (1932)
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Brief Moment (1933)
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Child of Manhattan (1933)
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Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)
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Fugitive Lovers (1934)
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Rumba (1935)
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Hands Across the Table (1935)
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Paris in Spring (1935)
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The Princess Comes Across (1936)
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My Man Godfrey (1936)
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Easy Living (1937)
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Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
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True Confession (1937)
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Fools for Scandal (1938)
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Artists and Models Abroad (1938)
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Remember the Night (1940)
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The Mad Doctor (1941)
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The Road to Zanzibar (1941)
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I Married a Witch (1942)
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The Lady is Willing (1942)
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The Talk of the Town (1942) – Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography
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You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
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The More the Merrier (1943)
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The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
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Notorious (1946)
As director
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Riffraff (1947)
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Fighting Father Dunne (1948)
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The Window (1949)
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Johnny Allegro (1949)
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A Dangerous Profession (1949)
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The White Tower (1950)
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Gambling House (1951)
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The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952)
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Terror on a Train (1953) (aka Time Bomb)
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Son of Sinbad (1955)
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The Young Land (1959)
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