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Biography
Mutz Greenbaum (3 February 1896 – 5 July 1968), sometimes credited as Max Greene or Max Greenbaum was a Berlin, Germany-born film cinematographer.
He was the son of the pioneering film producer Jules Greenbaum who had founded Deutsche Bioscope. He began as a cameraman in 1916 working on German silent movies, especially in association with director Franz Hofer. His career continued into the sound era and he moved to England working on such films as The Stars Look Down (1940), Hatter's Castle (1942), Thunder Rock (1942), So Evil My Love (1948), Night and the City (1950) and I'm All Right Jack (1959), usually credited as Max Greene.
He directed a few films in the 1940s, but is remembered today for the over 130 films as a director of photography.
Selected films
- The Raft of the Dead (1921)
- Alone in the Jungle (1922)
- Christopher Columbus (1923)
- The Girl from Capri (1924)
- Prater (1924)
- The Marriage Swindler (1925)
- The Golden Calf (1925)
- The Bohemian Dancer (1926)
- The Girl on a Swing (1926)
- Our Daily Bread (1926)
- The Circus of Life (1926)
- Orient (1928)
- The Republic of Flappers (1928)
- Pawns of Passion (1928)
- Who Invented Divorce? (1928)
- The President (1928)
- Their Son (1929)
- The Night of Terror (1929)
- Only on the Rhine (1930)
- Love and Champagne (1930)
- The Great Longing (1930)
- There Is a Woman Who Never Forgets You (1930)
- Two Worlds (1930)
- Hindle Wakes (1931)
- A Gentleman of Paris (1931)
- 1914 (1931)
- 77 Rue Chalgrin (1931)
- Sunshine Susie (1931)
- Love on Wheels (1932)
- The Faithful Heart (1932)
- It's a Boy (1933)
- The Constant Nymph (1933)
- Evensong (1934)
- Princess Charming (1934)
- Emil and the Detectives (1935)
- Bulldog Jack (1935)
- Oh, Daddy! (1935)
- Tudor Rose (1936)
- Non-Stop New York (1937)
- Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
- The Green Cockatoo (1937)
- Old Iron (1938)
- The Stars Look Down (1939)
- Under Your Hat (1940)
- This England (1941)
- Pimpernel Smith (1941)
- They Flew Alone (1942)
- Hatter's Castle (1942)
- Thunder Rock (1942)
- Squadron Leader X (1943)
- The Man from Morocco (1945)
- The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947)
- Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948)
- So Evil My Love (1948)
- Spring in Park Lane (1948)
- Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
- Night and the City (1950)
- Odette (1950)
- Into the Blue (1950)
- The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
- Derby Day (1952)
- Lucky Jim (1957)
- Brothers in Law (1957)
- I'm All Right Jack (1959)
- Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
- Heavens Above! (1963)