Charles Rosher

Charles Gladdish Rosher, A.S.C. (17 November 1885 – 15 January 1974) was a British-American cinematographer who worked from the early days of silent films through the 1950s.

He was Mary Pickford's favourite cinematographer and a personal friend, shooting all of the films in which she starred from 1918 to 1927, before they had a falling-out during production of Coquette (1929). He was the first cinematographer to receive an Academy Award, along with Karl Struss, for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and won again for The Yearling (1946), with Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling. He was also nominated four times.

Biography Rosher was born Charles Gladdish Rosher He eventually became an assistant to Richard Speaight, the official photographer of the British royal family. On 14 February 1913, Rosher married Lolita Rosher (née Hayes) in El Paso with whom he had the actress Joan Marsh. On 9 June 1934, Rosher married the actress Odette Duval (née Guazoni) with whom he had the cinematographer Charles Rosher Jr. (1935–2015). Rosher later remarried Doris and she is listed as his wife on his death report.

On 16 January 1974, Rosher died in Lisbon, Portugal at the aged 88. Rosher was buried in Estoril. Life of Villa Documentary

With Pancho Villa in Mexico

The Next in Command

The Oath of a Viking Short

The Mystery of the Poison Pool

Santo Icario

The Smuggler's Lass Short

The Mad Maid of the Forest Short

Gene of the Northland Short

The Voice in the Fog

Blackbirds Credited as Charles G. Rosher

The Sowers

The Clown

Common Ground

Anton the Terrible

The Heir to the Hoorah

The Plow Girl

On Record

A Mormon Maid

The Primrose Ring

At First Sight

Hashimura Togo

A Little Princess* With Walter Stradling

The Secret Game

The Widow's Might

One More American

The Honor of His House

The White Man's Law

How Could You, Jean?*

Johanna Enlists*

Too Many Millions

The Dub

Captain Kidd, Jr.*

Daddy-Long-Legs*

The Hoodlum*

Heart o' the Hills*

Pollyanna*

Suds* With L. William O'Connell

The White Circle (1920) With Alfred Ortlieb

Dinty (1920) With David Kesson and Foster Leonard

The Love Light*

Through the Back Door*

Little Lord Fauntleroy*

Smilin' Through With J. Roy Hunt

Tess of the Storm Country*

Sant'Ilario

Rosita*

Tiger Rose

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall*

Three Women With Charles Van Enger

Little Annie Rooney* With Hal Mohr

Sparrows* With Hal Mohr

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

My Best Girl*

Tempest

Coquette* Uncredited

Eternal Love (1929) With Oliver T. Marsh

The Vagabond Queen

Atlantik

Atlantic

The Road Is Fine

Knowing Men

Two Worlds

Zwei Welten With Mutz Greenbaum

The Price of Things

Atlantis

War Nurse

Paid

Les deux mondes

Dance, Fools, Dance

Laughing Sinners

This Modern Age |

Silence

The Beloved Bachelor

Husband's Holiday

What Price Hollywood?

Two Against the World

Flaming Gold

Rockabye

The Past of Mary Holmes

Our Betters

The Silver Cord

Bed of Roses

After Tonight

Moulin Rouge

The Affairs of Cellini

Outcast Lady

What Every Woman Knows

After Office Hours (1935)

Call of the Wild

Broadway Melody of 1936

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Small Town Girl With Oliver T. Marsh

Men Are Not Gods

The Woman I Love

The Perfect Specimen

Hollywood Hotel With George Barnes

White Banners

Hard to Get

Off the Record

Yes, My Darling Daughter

Hell's Kitchen

Espionage Agent

A Child Is Born

Brother Rat and a Baby

Three Cheers for the Irish

My Love Came Back

Four Mothers

Million Dollar Baby

One Foot in Heaven

Mokey

Pierre of the Plains

Stand By for Action

Assignment in Brittany

I Dood It (1943) Uncredited

Swing Fever

Kismet

Ziegfeld Follies Uncredited; with George Folsey and Ray June

Yolanda and the Thief

The Yearling With Arthur Arling and Leonard Smith

Fiesta With Wilfrid M. Cline and Sidney Wagner

Dark Delusion

Song of the Thin Man

On an Island with You

Words and Music With Harry Stradling

Neptune's Daughter

The Red Danube

East Side, West Side

Annie Get Your Gun

Pagan Love Song

Show Boat

Scaramouche

The Story of Three Loves

Young Bess With Harold Rosson

Kiss Me Kate

Jupiter's Darling With Paul C. Vogel