Ernest Palmer
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Ernest Palmer (born in Kansas City, Missouri, December 6, 1885; died in Pacific Palisades, California, February 22, 1978) was a Hollywood cinematographer for more than 160 films. His earliest known credit was for a 1912 adaption of Ivanhoe.
In 1941, Palmer won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography (in collaboration with Ray Rennahan) for Blood and Sand. Palmer was nominated on several other occasions - in 1928 for Four Devils, in 1929 for Street Angel, and in 1950 for Broken Arrow.
The name is shared by a later-born British cinematographer who was active during some of the same period. The second Ernest Palmer was born in 1901 and died in 1964, having worked on under 20 films.
External link
IMDB page of Ernest Palmer (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005823/) IMDB page of the other Ernest Palmer (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1369398/)
