Norbert Brodine

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Nobert Brodine (December 16, 1896 - February 28, 1970, also credited as Norbert F. Brodin and Norbert Brodin) was a film cinematographer. The St. Joseph, Missouri-born cameraman worked on over 100 films in his career before retiring from film making in 1955 after working on a Little Rascals television series. Brodine's films include The House on 92nd Street (1945), Somewhere in the Night (1946), Boomerang! and Kiss of Death (both 1947), Thieves' Highway (1949), and The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951).

Brodine began his cameraman career working in a camera shop and later building on that experience in the Army Signal Corp during World War I. After studying at Columbia University, he began working as a still photographer in Hollywood before moving to motion pictures in 1919. Began working exclusively for Hal Roach Studios in 1937 and then moved on to 20th Century Fox in 1943. He put his outdoor camera skills to good use on semi-documentary films shot on location for films like Kiss of Death. Brodine moved back to Hal Roach Studios to end his career in the 1950s.