Ernest B. Schoedsack Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Ernest Beaumont Schoedsack (June 8, 1893 – December 23, 1979) was an American motion picture cinematographer, producer, and director.Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Schoedsack is probably best remembered for being the co-director of the 1933 film, King Kong.His eyesight was severely damaged in World War II, yet he continued to direct films afterwards. He directed Mighty Joe Young at RKO in 1949, which was a reunion film of the main King Kong creative team (Cooper and Rose).He married screenwriter Ruth Rose. They are interred together at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
Ado Kyrou wrote that Schoedsack met Ruth Rose in the Brazilian jungle of Amazonia, when they were conducting separate exploration projects ("Amour Erotisme et Cinema", Le Terrain vague, Paris; page 239). The truth is that in 1925, they were engaged respectively as cameraman and historian by the Cooper-Schoedsack Productions (with Merian C. Cooper, who was director of the department of tropical research of the New York Zoological Society from 1919) to film the exotic the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) with a linear narrative, as Schoedsack had done in Persia and Siam. Theirs was a case of love at first sight; they married in 1926.
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Schoedsack's eyes were severely damaged during World War II when he dropped his face mask during a high altitude test of photographic equipment. Mighty Joe Young (1949) was his only post-War directing project. He retired after working with his wife Ruth Rose on "This Is Cinerama".
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Schoedsack entered the film industry as a cameraman for Keystone. He served with the U.S. Signal Corps during World War I. After the war, he took on several journalistic assignments and later helped relief efforts in Poland following the Armistice. From 1926, Schoedsack worked in tandem with an old army acquaintance, Captain Merian C. Cooper, under contract to Paramount on the documentary dramas Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) and Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927), shot respectively in Persia (Iran) and in Siam (Thailand). After going solo on another documentary, Rango (1931), filmed in Sumatra, Schoedsack was hired by RKO from 1932 to 1935 to direct documentaries, starting with The Most Dangerous Game (1932). He then worked (uncredited) with Cooper on King Kong (1933), and later directed the (unofficial) sequel Mighty Joe Young (1949) with the same production team. Schoedsack's sparse output as a director also includes the classic live action/miniature science-fiction drama Dr. Cyclops (1940).
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Appears as a character (usually brooding) in the 1998 novel Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear, who establishes his novel to be a quasi-sequel to both the 1912 novel The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle and the Harry Hoyt-directed The Lost World (1925), treating Doyle's novel as though it were factual and adding the filmmakers involved with King Kong (1933) into the adventure. In Bear's novel, Schoedsack becomes a hero, rescuing others when they are about to be eaten by dinosaurs.
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Child: Peter
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
This Is Cinerama
1952
Documentary prologue only, uncredited
Mighty Joe Young
1949
Dr. Cyclops
1940
Outlaws of the Orient
1937
Trouble in Morocco
1937
The Last Days of Pompeii
1935
Long Lost Father
1934
The Son of Kong
1933
Blind Adventure
1933
King Kong
1933
uncredited
The Monkey's Paw
1933
uncredited
The Most Dangerous Game
1932
Rango
1931
The Four Feathers
1929
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
1927
Documentary
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
1925
Documentary uncredited
Cinematographer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Gow the Killer
1931
Documentary
Rango
1931
The Four Feathers
1929
uncredited
Captain Salisbury's Ra-Mu
1929
Documentary
Gow the Head Hunter
1928
Documentary
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
1927
Documentary uncredited
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
1925
Documentary recorded for the screen by
Beach of Dreams
1921
as Felix Schoedsack
A Dark Room Secret
1917
Short
A Love Case
1917
Short
His Widow's Might
1917
Short
Her Torpedoed Love
1917
Short as Felix Schoedsack
Her Fame and Shame
1917
Short as Felix Schoedsack
Her Marble Heart
1916
Short as Felix Schoedsack
Her Painted Hero
1915
Short as Felix Schoedsack
Camera Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Eagle Squadron
1942
background photography
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1935
camera operator: background shots, India - uncredited / director of photography: background shots, India - uncredited
The Son of Kong
1933
camera operator - uncredited
King Kong
1933
camera operator - uncredited
Greed
1924
camera operator - uncredited
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Son of Kong
1933
producer - uncredited
King Kong
1933
producer - uncredited
Rango
1931
producer
The Four Feathers
1929
producer
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
1927
Documentary producer
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
1925
Documentary producer - uncredited
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rango
1931
story
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness
1927
Documentary uncredited
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rango
1931
The Four Feathers
1929
uncredited
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
King Kong
1933
Machine-Gunner on Plane That Kills Kong (uncredited)
$14 Million
