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Ernest B. Schoedsack
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Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor Born: June 8, 1893 in Council Bluffs, IA Death: 1979 in California Biography:Six-foot-six Iowa-native "Ernest B. Schoedsack" was fascinated with the mechanics of film photography long before taking his first movie job with the Keystone Studios in 1914. During World War I, he worked as a Signal Corps cameraman, and after the Armistice he labored mightily on behalf of Polish war relief, helping thousand of Poles escape the Russian occupied territories. While in Ukraine in 1920 he met Captain "Merian Cooper", who, like Schoedsack, was a fervent anti-Bolshevik -- and also an aspiring film director. The men renewed their friendship after the hostilities, collaborating on a brace of documentary films, "Grass" (1926) and "Chang" (1927). Still in partnership with "Cooper", Schoedsack co-directed the fictional adventure film "The Four Feathers" (1929), then, after another documentary, the "Cooper"-Schoedsack team helmed RKO's "The Most Dangerous Game" (1932), which featured "Four... Full Biography
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