Biography
Edward Cronjager was an American cinematographer whose career began in the silent era and continued through the 1950s, encompassing more than 100 feature films as well as television work.
He received seven Academy Award nominations for cinematography, including for The Pied Piper (1942) in black and white and Heaven Can Wait (1943) in colour, though he did not win. Other notable credits include Cimarron (1931), Western Union (1941), I Wake Up Screaming (1941), The Gang's All Here (1943), Canyon Passage (1946) and House by the River (1950).
Cronjager came from a family of cinematographers. He was the preferred director of photography for actor Richard Dix and contributed to the testing of new film stocks for the American Society of Cinematographers.
