---
name: "Gordon Pollock"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gordon-pollock"
fi1m_id: "gordon-pollock"
imdb_id: "nm0689661"
tmdb_id: 13849
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:12:19.836220+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Gordon Pollock

## Identity

Gordon Pollock

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gordon-pollock
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gordon-pollock
- **IMDb ID:** nm0689661
- **TMDB ID:** 13849
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689661/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13849

Cinematographer.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0689661/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13849

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*City Lights*](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md) (89)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Gordon Pollock was a cinematographer and camera technician whose credits span the silent era and early sound films. He worked as a photographer on *Queen Kelly* (1929) and as one of the cinematographers on Charlie Chaplin’s *City Lights* (1931), alongside Roland Totheroh.

Earlier credits include director of photography on *Defying the Law* (1924), *Nine and Three-Fifths Seconds* (1925) and *Heartless Husbands* (1925). In the 1950s he served as director of stereoscopic photography on *College Capers* (1953) and as technical advisor on stereovision for *I, the Jury* (1953). He also worked as assistant camera on *A Perfect Crime* (1921).

*Sources: pro.imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, criterion.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *City Lights* (1931), Fi1m 89, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *City Lights* (1931), Director of Photography — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/city-lights.md)
- *Queen Kelly* (1929), Director of Photography
- *Heartless Husbands* (1925), Director of Photography

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