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Conrad Wells(1897-1930)

  • Cinematographer
  • Camera and Electrical Department
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Born Abraham Fried in 1900, he was a cinematographer in early Hollywood specializing in outdoor and early western cinema. He died tragically along with 9 others while filming Such Men Are Dangerous (1930) off the coast near Santa Monica, the plane he was filming on collided with another plane. Both planes burst into flames before crashing into the ocean. Among the dead were the director, Kenneth Hawks and three other cameramen George Eastman, Otho Jordan, Ben Frankel and Max Gold, the Assistant Director, two property men and the two pilots.
Bornc. 1897
DiedJanuary 2, 1930
Bornc. 1897
DiedJanuary 2, 1930
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Known for

The Phantom Express
4.9
  • Cinematographer(as A. Fried)
  • 1925
The Sky Hawk (1929)
The Sky Hawk
7.1
  • Cinematographer
  • 1929
Ralph Graves in The Swell-Head (1927)
The Swell-Head
  • Cinematographer
  • 1927
Monte Blue and Leila Hyams in The Brute (1927)
The Brute
  • Cinematographer(as Abe Fried)
  • 1927

Credits

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Cinematographer



  • Warner Baxter in Such Men Are Dangerous (1930)
    Such Men Are Dangerous
    5.8
    • Cinematographer (uncredited)
    • 1930
  • Dixie Lee in Let's Go Places (1930)
    Let's Go Places
    6.8
    • Cinematographer
    • 1930
  • The Sky Hawk (1929)
    The Sky Hawk
    7.1
    • Cinematographer
    • 1929
  • Behind That Curtain (1929)
    Behind That Curtain
    4.8
    • Cinematographer
    • 1929
  • Mary Astor and Robert Armstrong in The Woman from Hell (1929)
    The Woman from Hell
    6.2
    • Cinematographer
    • 1929
  • Mary Astor in New Year's Eve (1929)
    New Year's Eve
    6.3
    • Cinematographer
    • 1929
  • George O'Brien in True Heaven (1929)
    True Heaven
    • Cinematographer
    • 1929
  • Victor McLaglen and Claire Windsor in Captain Lash (1929)
    Captain Lash
    • Cinematographer
    • 1929
  • Mary Astor, Ben Bard, John Boles, and Robert Elliott in Romance of the Underworld (1928)
    Romance of the Underworld
    6.8
    • Cinematographer
    • 1928
  • Mary Astor and Matt Moore in Dry Martini (1928)
    Dry Martini
    4.4
    • Cinematographer
    • 1928
  • Nancy Carroll and Ford Sterling in Chicken a La King (1928)
    Chicken a La King
    • Cinematographer
    • 1928
  • Edmund Lowe in Dressed to Kill (1928)
    Dressed to Kill
    6.5
    • Cinematographer
    • 1928
  • Irene Rich in The Desired Woman (1927)
    The Desired Woman
    4.1
    • Cinematographer
    • 1927
  • Ralph Graves in The Swell-Head (1927)
    The Swell-Head
    • Cinematographer
    • 1927
  • Monte Blue, William Demarest, and Edna Murphy in The Black Diamond Express (1927)
    The Black Diamond Express
    • Cinematographer
    • 1927

Camera and Electrical Department



  • Warner Baxter in Such Men Are Dangerous (1930)
    Such Men Are Dangerous
    5.8
    • camera operator (uncredited)
    • 1930

Personal details

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  • Alternative names
    • A. Fried
  • Born
    • c. 1897
    • New York City, New York, USA
  • Died
    • January 2, 1930
    • Santa Monica, California, USA(plane crash while filming)
  • Spouse
    • Gypsy Wells1926 - January 2, 1930 (his death)
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    Four Hollywood cameramen - George Eastman, Otto Jordan, Conrad Wells and Ben Frankel - were killed on the same day, making the same movie, when their camera planes collided and fell into the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast while filming "Such Men Are Dangerous". Six others, including the film's director, were also killed.

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