Personal Info

Known For

Camera

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1872-04-21

Deathday

1944-04-29 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As

Georg William Bitzer
G.W. Bitzer
Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer
Georg William 'Billy' Bitzer

Billy Bitzer

Biography

Gottfried Wilhelm "Billy" Bitzer (April 21, 1872 – April 29, 1944) was a pioneering American cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith.

In 2003, a survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild named him one of the ten most influential cinematographers in history. Bitzer, it is said, "developed camera techniques that set the standard for all future motion pictures."

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Known For

6.8%

The Méliès Mystery

Jan 2, 2021

3.0%

Lucky Jim

Apr 25, 1909

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Acting

2021

The Méliès Mystery as Self (archive footage)

1909

Lucky Jim

Camera

1933

Hotel Variety as Director of Photography

1928

The Battle of the Sexes as Director of Photography

1925

The Midnight Girl as Director of Photography

1924

America as Director of Photography

1923

The White Rose as Director of Photography

1922

Sure-Fire Flint as Director of Photography

1921

Orphans of the Storm as Director of Photography

1920		Way Down East as Director of Photography
1920		The Love Flower as Director of Photography
1920		The Idol Dancer as Director of Photography

1919		The Greatest Question as Director of Photography
1919		Scarlet Days as Director of Photography
1919		The Mother and the Law as Director of Photography
1919		The Fall of Babylon as Director of Photography
1919		True Heart Susie as Director of Photography
1919		Broken Blossoms as Director of Photography
1919		The Girl Who Stayed at Home as Director of Photography
1919		A Romance of Happy Valley as Director of Photography

1918		The Greatest Thing in Life as Director of Photography
1918		The Great Love as Director of Photography
1918		Hearts of the World as Director of Photography

1916

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as Director of Photography

1915

The Birth of a Nation as Director of Photography

1914		The Avenging Conscience as Director of Photography
1914		The Escape as Director of Photography
1914		Home, Sweet Home as Director of Photography
1914		Judith of Bethulia as Director of Photography

1913		The Battle at Elderbush Gulch as Director of Photography
1913		Two Men of the Desert as Director of Photography
1913		An Indian's Loyalty as Director of Photography
1913		The Mothering Heart as Director of Photography
1913		Olaf—An Atom as Director of Photography
1913		The Wanderer as Director of Photography
1913		The Lady and the Mouse as Director of Photography
1913		The Little Tease as Director of Photography
1913		Near To Earth as Camera Operator
1913		Near To Earth as Director of Photography
1913		The Unwelcome Guest as Director of Photography
1913		Broken Ways as Director of Photography

1912		The Massacre as Director of Photography
1912		The Burglar’s Dilemma as Director of Photography
1912		The New York Hat as Director of Photography
1912		My Baby as Director of Photography
1912		The Musketeers of Pig Alley as Director of Photography
1912		The Painted Lady as Director of Photography
1912		A Feud in the Kentucky Hills as Director of Photography
1912		So Near, Yet So Far as Director of Photography
1912		Friends as Director of Photography
1912		An Unseen Enemy as Director of Photography
1912		The School Teacher and the Waif as Director of Photography
1912		Lena and the Geese as Director of Photography
1912		A Temporary Truce as Director of Photography
1912		A Beast at Bay as Director of Photography
1912		A Lodging for the Night as Director of Photography
1912		The Lesser Evil as Director of Photography
1912		One Is Business, the Other Crime as Director of Photography
1912		The Girl and Her Trust as Director of Photography
1912		The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch as Director of Photography
1912		Iola's Promise as Director of Photography
1912		The Sunbeam as Director of Photography
1912		The Mender of Nets as Director of Photography

1911		The Miser's Heart as Director of Photography
1911		The Battle as Director of Photography
1911		The Long Road as Director of Photography
1911		Italian Blood as Director of Photography
1911		The Making of a Man as Director of Photography
1911		Swords and Hearts as Director of Photography
1911		The Rose of Kentucky as Director of Photography
1911		The Last Drop of Water as Director of Photography
1911		The Primal Call as Director of Photography
1911		Enoch Arden: Part II as Director of Photography
1911		Enoch Arden as Director of Photography
1911		Enoch Arden: Part I as Director of Photography
1911		The Lonedale Operator as Director of Photography
1911		Teaching Dad to Like Her as Director of Photography
1911		Fisher Folks as Director of Photography
1911		His Trust Fulfilled as Director of Photography
1911		His Trust as Director of Photography
1911		When a Man Loves as Director of Photography

1910		The Lesson as Director of Photography
1910		Sunshine Sue as Director of Photography
1910		The Fugitive as Director of Photography
1910		Waiter No. 5 as Director of Photography
1910		The Iconoclast as Director of Photography
1910		Rose o' Salem Town as Director of Photography
1910		Wilful Peggy as Director of Photography
1910		The Usurer as Director of Photography
1910		The House with Closed Shutters as Director of Photography
1910		A Flash of Light as Director of Photography
1910		What the Daisy Said as Director of Photography
1910		In the Border States as Director of Photography
1910		Ramona as Director of Photography
1910		The Unchanging Sea as Director of Photography
1910		The Honor of His Family as Director of Photography

1909		The Day After as Director of Photography
1909		To Save Her Soul as Director of Photography
1909		A Trap for Santa Claus as Director of Photography
1909		A Corner in Wheat as Director of Photography
1909		The Redman's View as Director of Photography
1909		Through the Breakers as Director of Photography
1909		The Mountaineer's Honor as Director of Photography
1909		Lines of White on a Sullen Sea as Director of Photography
1909		The Broken Locket as Director of Photography
1909		Getting Even as Director of Photography
1909		Comata, the Sioux as Director of Photography
1909		1776, or The Hessian Renegades as Director of Photography
1909		The Sealed Room as Director of Photography
1909		The Little Darling as Director of Photography
1909		They Would Elope as Director of Photography
1909		Sweet and Twenty as Director of Photography
1909		The Country Doctor as Director of Photography
1909		The Necklace as Director of Photography
1909		The Way of Man as Director of Photography
1909		The Son's Return as Director of Photography
1909		The Lonely Villa as Director of Photography
1909		What Drink Did as Director of Photography
1909		Two Memories as Director of Photography
1909		The Suicide Club as Director of Photography
1909		A Drunkard's Reformation as Director of Photography
1909		At the Altar as Director of Photography
1909		The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals as Director of Photography
1909		The Curtain Pole as Director of Photography
1909		Edgar Allan Poe as Director of Photography
1909		The Cord of Life as Director of Photography
1909		Those Awful Hats as Director of Photography
1909		The Welcome Burglar as Director of Photography
1909		Mr. Jones Has a Card Party as Director of Photography
1909		The Fascinating Mrs. Francis as Director of Photography
1909		The Criminal Hypnotist as Director of Photography
1909		A Rural Elopement as Director of Photography
1909		The Sacrifice as Director of Photography
1909		The Honor of Thieves as Director of Photography
1909		Love Finds a Way as Director of Photography
1909		The Maniac Cook as Director of Photography

1908		Mr. Jones at the Ball as Director of Photography
1908		The Christmas Burglars as Director of Photography
1908		Money Mad as Director of Photography
1908		The Valet's Wife as Director of Photography
1908		The Taming of the Shrew as Director of Photography
1908		Father Gets in the Game as Director of Photography
1908		The Zulu's Heart as Director of Photography
1908		Over the Hills to the Poor House as Director of Photography
1908		The Invisible Fluid as Director of Photography
1908		When Knights Were Bold as Director of Photography
1908		The Music Master as Director of Photography
1908		Hulda's Lovers as Director of Photography

1907		Jamestown Exposition as Camera Operator
1907		Fights of Nations as Director of Photography
1907		Mr. Hurry-up as Director of Photography
1907		Trial Marriages as Director of Photography

1906		Married for Millions as Director of Photography
1906		Dr. Dippy's Sanitarium as Director of Photography
1906		From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies as Director of Photography
1906		San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake as Director of Photography

1905		A Kentucky Feud as Director of Photography
1905		Robbed of Her All as Director of Photography
1905		A Ballroom Tragedy as Director of Photography
1905		A Trip to Salt Lake City as Director of Photography
1905		New York Subway as Director of Photography
1905		Latina, Contortionist as Director of Photography
1905		Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room as Director of Photography
1905		Bathing in the Ice at the L Street Bath, Boston as Director of Photography
1905		Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son as Director of Photography

1904		The Chicken Thief as Director of Photography
1904		The Hero of Liao-Yang as Director of Photography
1904		Automobiling Among the Clouds as Director of Photography
1904		Alone as Director of Photography
1904		Personal as Director of Photography
1904		Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room as Director of Photography
1904		Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle as Director of Photography
1904		Testing a Rotary as Director of Photography
1904		Westinghouse Works as Director of Photography
1904		Girls Taking Time Checks as Director of Photography

1903		A Frontier Flirtation; or, How the Tenderfoot Won Out as Director of Photography
1903		The Fate of the Artist's Model as Director of Photography
1903		Hooligan in Jail as Director of Photography
1903		Weighing the Baby as Director of Photography
1903		The Dude and the Burglars as Director of Photography
1903		Murder Scene from 'King of the Detectives' as Director of Photography
1903		The Physical Culture Girl, No. 1 as Director of Photography
1903		The Physical Culture Girl, No. 2 as Director of Photography
1903		Levi & Cohen, the Irish Comedians as Director of Photography
1903		Willie's Camera as Director of Photography
1903		The Haymarket as Director of Photography
1903		Betsy Ross Dance as Director of Photography
1903		Happy Hooligan Interferes as Director of Photography
1903		The Giddy Dancing Master as Director of Photography

1901

The Georgetown Loop (Colorado) as Director of Photography

1899		Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge as Director of Photography
1899		Stealing a Dinner as Director of Photography

1896		McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio as Director of Photography
1896		Little Egypt as Camera Operator

Crew

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Bobby's Kodak as Cinematography

1914

Brute Force as Cinematography

1913

The Coming of Angelo as Cinematography

1912		A Pueblo Legend as Cinematography
1912		The Sands of Dee as Cinematography

1911		The Unveiling as Cinematography
1911		What Shall We Do with Our Old? as Cinematography

1909		The Light That Came as Cinematography
1909		Nursing a Viper as Cinematography
1909		The Gibson Goddess as Cinematography
1909		Pippa Passes as Cinematography
1909		The Mended Lute as Cinematography
1909		The Renunciation as Cinematography
1909		Her First Biscuits as Cinematography
1909		The Violin Maker of Cremona as Cinematography
1909		The Cricket on the Hearth as Cinematography
1909		Resurrection as Cinematography
1909		Lucky Jim as Cinematography
1909		Lady Helen's Escapade as Cinematography
1909		The Voice of the Violin as Cinematography
1909		The Politician's Love Story as Cinematography

1908		The Song of the Shirt as Cinematography
1908		After Many Years as Cinematography
1908		The Call of the Wild as Cinematography
1908		Romance of a Jewess as Cinematography
1908		The Planter's Wife as Cinematography
1908		A Smoked Husband as Cinematography
1908		Where the Breakers Roar as Cinematography
1908		Betrayed by a Handprint as Cinematography
1908		A Calamitous Elopement as Cinematography
1908		Deceived Slumming Party as Cinematography
1908		The Black Viper as Cinematography
1908		Mixed Babies as Cinematography
1908		The Sculptor's Nightmare as Cinematography
1908		Her First Adventure as Cinematography
1908		The Princess in the Vase as Cinematography

1906

San Francisco Disaster as Cinematography

1905

2 A.M. in the Subway as Cinematography

1904		The Lost Child as Cinematography
1904		Automobile Race for the Vanderbilt Cup as Cinematography
1904		The Opening the Williamsburg Bridge as Cinematography
1904		The Widow and the Only Man as Cinematography

1903

Catch-As-Catch-Can Wrestling Bout as Cinematography

1896		American Falls from Luna Island as Cinematography
1896		American Falls from Goat Island as Cinematography
1896		Hard Wash as Cinematography

Directing

1908

The Adventures of Dollie as Director

1906		Logging in Maine as Director
1906		San Francisco Disaster as Director
1906		The Impossible Convicts as Director

1905		Wrestling at the New York Athletic Club as Director
1905		Teasing as Director
1905		The Summer Boarders as Director
1905		Duel Scene from Macbeth as Director
1905		A Pipe Dream as Director
1905		A Ballroom Tragedy as Director
1905		2 A.M. in the Subway as Director
1905		New York Subway as Director
1905		A Trip to Salt Lake City as Director
1905		Peeping Tom in the Dressing Room as Director
1905		Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son as Director

1904		Children in the Surf at Coney Island as Director
1904		Coil Winding Section E as Director
1904		A Cake Walk on the Beach at Coney Island as Director
1904		Automobiling Among the Clouds as Director
1904		Baby in a Rage as Director
1904		Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room as Director
1904		Westinghouse Employees, Westinghouse Works as Director
1904		Panorama Exterior Westinghouse Works as Director
1904		Assembling and Testing Turbines as Director
1904		Panoramic View, Aisle B, Westinghouse Works as Director
1904		Assembling a Generator as Director
1904		Coil Winding Machines as Director
1904		Steam Hammer as Director
1904		Tapping a Furnace as Director
1904		Westinghouse Works as Director
1904		Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works as Director
1904		Testing a Rotary as Director
1904		Casting a Guide Box as Director
1904		Westinghouse Air Brake Co. as Director
1904		Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Moulding Scene) as Director
1904		Westinghouse Air Brake Co. (Casting Scene) as Director
1904		Taping Coils as Director
1904		Panorama of Machine Co. Aisle as Director
1904		Girls Taking Time Checks as Director
1904		Girls Winding Armatures as Director
1904		Welding the Big Ring as Director
1904		The Coney Island Beach Patrol as Director
1904		Steam Whistle as Director

1903		Orphans in the Surf as Director
1903		A Search for Evidence as Director
1903		Expert Bag Punching as Director
1903		The Boy In The Barrel as Director
1903		Levi & Cohen, the Irish Comedians as Director
1903		Chicks to Order as Director
1903		Pres. Roosevelt's Fourth of July Oration as Director
1903		Catch-As-Catch-Can Wrestling Bout as Director
1903		The Haymarket as Director
1903		Happy Hooligan Interferes as Director
1903		N.Y. Fire Department Returning as Director

1901

President McKinley Inauguration as Director

1899		Across Brooklyn Bridge as Director
1899		Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge as Director

Writing

1934

The Camera Speaks as Story

1909

The Curtain Pole as Story