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name: "Bud Thackery"
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roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "31 January 1903"
died: "15 July 1990"
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# Bud Thackery

## Identity

Bud Thackery

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bud-thackery
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bud-thackery
- **IMDb ID:** nm0856844
- **TMDB ID:** 33960
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1000549
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Thackery, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1000549, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856844/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33960

Cinematographer. Born 31 January 1903 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA. Died 15 July 1990.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 31 January 1903, Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA
- **Died:** 15 July 1990
- **Also known as:** Bud Thackeray, Ellis Thackerey, E.J. Thackery, Ellis F. Thackery, Ellis J. Thackery, Ellis Thackery
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Thackery, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1000549, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0856844/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33960

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Modern Times*](https://film.one/film/modern-times.md) (88)

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## Biography

Ellis J. "Bud" Thackery (1903–1990) was an American cinematographer. He began his career in the silent film era as a matte and glass artist and joined Republic Pictures in 1935, where he headed the process department and served as director of photography on numerous features, B-westerns and serials.

Thackery contributed process photography to *Modern Times* (1936) and was director of photography on *Coogan's Bluff* (1968). He received an Academy Award nomination, shared with others, for special photographic effects on *Women in War* (1940). After Republic closed, he worked at Universal Studios on feature films and television series including *Ironside*, *The Virginian* and *Emergency!*, retiring in 1976.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, latimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Modern Times* (1936), Fi1m 88, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/modern-times.md)

## Complete filmography (81)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bridger* (1976), Director of Photography
- *Runaway!* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Lieutenant Schuster's Wife* (1972), Director of Photography
- *Coogan's Bluff* (1968), Director of Photography
- *Split Second to an Epitaph* (1968), Director of Photography
- *The Hell with Heroes* (1968), Director of Photography
- *Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?* (1968), Director of Photography
- *The Outsider* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Stranger on the Run* (1967), Cinematography
- *Tammy and the Millionaire* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Winchester '73* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Wings of Fire* (1967), Director of Photography
- *How I Spent My Summer Vacation* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Code Name: Heraclitus* (1967), Director of Photography
- *Beau Geste* (1966), Director of Photography
- *The Plainsman* (1966), Director of Photography
- *D-Day on Mars* (1966), Director of Photography
- *The Claw Monsters* (1966), Director of Photography
- *The Hanged Man* (1964), Director of Photography
- *Nightmare in Chicago* (1964), Director of Photography
- *The Grim Reaper* (1961), Cinematography
- *The Slowest Gun in the West* (1960), Director of Photography
- *Suspicion* (1957), series, Director of Photography
- *Wagon Train* (1957), series, Director of Photography
- *Accused of Murder* (1956), Director of Photography
- *The Man Is Armed* (1956), Director of Photography
- *A Strange Adventure* (1956), Director of Photography
- *Thunder Over Arizona* (1956), Director of Photography
- *Terror at Midnight* (1956), Director of Photography
- *Stranger at My Door* (1956), Director of Photography
- *Flame of the Islands* (1955), Director of Photography
- *No Man's Woman* (1955), Director of Photography
- *Santa Fe Passage* (1955), Director of Photography
- *Panther Girl of the Kongo* (1955), Director of Photography
- *Man with the Steel Whip* (1954), Cinematography
- *Phantom Stallion* (1954), Director of Photography
- *Stories of the Century* (1954), series, Director of Photography
- *Trader Tom of the China Seas* (1954), Director of Photography
- *Red River Shore* (1953), Director of Photography
- *Shadows of Tombstone* (1953), Director of Photography
- *Bandits of the West* (1953), Director of Photography
- *Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe* (1953), Director of Photography
- *San Antone* (1953), Director of Photography
- *Fair Wind to Java* (1953), Camera Operator
- *Black Hills Ambush* (1952), Director of Photography
- *Outcasts of the Trail* (1949), Director of Photography
- *Prince of the Plains* (1949), Director of Photography
- *Saddle Pals* (1947), Director of Photography
- *Son of Zorro* (1947), Director of Photography
- *The Crimson Ghost* (1946), Director of Photography
- *Traffic in Crime* (1946), Cinematography
- *Daughter of Don Q* (1946), Director of Photography
- *Man from Rainbow Valley* (1946), Director of Photography
- *Sun Valley Cyclone* (1946), Director of Photography
- *King of the Forest Rangers* (1946), Director of Photography
- *Alias Billy the Kid* (1946), Director of Photography
- *The Phantom Rider* (1946), Director of Photography
- *The Purple Monster Strikes* (1945), Director of Photography
- *The Fatal Witness* (1945), Cinematography
- *Oregon Trail* (1945), Director of Photography
- *Trail of Kit Carson* (1945), Director of Photography
- *Federal Operator 99* (1945), Director of Photography
- *The Vampire's Ghost* (1945), Director of Photography
- *Manhunt of Mystery Island* (1945), Director of Photography
- *Sheriff of Cimarron* (1945), Director of Photography
- *Firebrands of Arizona* (1944), Director of Photography
- *Sheriff of Sundown* (1944), Director of Photography
- *Code of the Prairie* (1944), Director of Photography
- *The Girl Who Dared* (1944), Director of Photography
- *Goodnight, Sweetheart* (1944), Director of Photography
- *O, My Darling Clementine* (1943), Director of Photography
- *Here Comes Elmer* (1943), Director of Photography
- *Sleepy Lagoon* (1943), Director of Photography
- *The Blocked Trail* (1943), Director of Photography
- *G-men vs. the Black Dragon* (1943), Director of Photography
- *Valley of Hunted Men* (1942), Director of Photography
- *Stardust on the Sage* (1942), Director of Photography
- *The Girl from Alaska* (1942), Director of Photography
- *Gangs of Sonora* (1941), Director of Photography
- *The Gay Vagabond* (1941), Director of Photography
- *Modern Times* (1936), Director of Photography — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/modern-times.md)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1941: Best Special Effects (nominated), for *Women in War*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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