Ragnar Sørensen

Ragnar Sørensen (February 16, 1915 – February 3, 1998) was a Norwegian cinematographer.

Sørensen made his debut as a camera assistant for the Norwegian film comedy Den forsvundne pølsemaker (1941) and as a focus puller for the comedy En herre med bart (1942). He made his debut as chief photographer with Nils R. Müller's Så møtes vi imorgen (1946). He soon became one of Norway's leading photographers with major assignments for directors such as Arne Skouen, Kåre Bergstrøm, Rasmus Breistein, and Tancred Ibsen. He particularly excelled in the black-and-white medium, and his most famous assignments were Arne Skouen's debut film Gategutter (1949), Tancred Ibsen's Storfolk og småfolk (1951), Kåre Bergstrøm and Radoš Novaković's Blodveien (1955), and Bergstrøm's De dødes tjern (1958, which was also the first Norwegian film created with CinemaScope). In the 1960s, he was the cinematographer for Tancred Ibsen's Venner (1960), Nils Reinhardt Christensen's Line (1961), and Arne Skouen's Om Tilla (1963). In 1969 he was the cinematographer for Himmel og helvete, which was also his last feature film.

Sørensen was the cinematographer for 26 feature films, and he also directed some of the short documentary films about Oslo (collectively known as the Oslo films): Klipp fra Oslo kinematografers arkiv (1955), Nye forstadsbaner i Oslo (1958), and Oslo havn (1957).

In 1961 he received the Aamot Award for his work.

Filmography

1941: Den forsvundne pølsemaker 1942: En herre med bart 1943: Den nye lægen 1946: Så møtes vi imorgen 1948: Den hemmelighetsfulle leiligheten 1949: Gategutter 1950: Det store varpet 1951: Storfolk og småfolk 1952: Andrine og Kjell 1952: Det kunne vært deg 1955: Blodveien 1956: Gylne ungdom 1956: Toya 1957: Ni liv 1957: Toya & Heidi 1958: De dødes tjern 1959: Støv på hjernen 1960: Millionær for en aften 1960: Venner 1961: Line 1961: Sønner av Norge 1962: Kalde spor 1962: Prozor u svet 1962: Sønner av Norge kjøper bil 1963: Om Tilla 1964: Pappa tar gull 1969: Himmel og helvete