Julius Jaenzon was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 cinematographer

Cinematographer

A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

, essential in the early Swedish silent cinema

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

. He is most known for his collaborations with directors Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director.- Biography:Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886...

 and Mauritz Stiller

Mauritz Stiller

Mauritz Stiller was a Finnish-Swedish actor, screenwriter and silent film director, who was mostly active in Sweden.-Life:...

, particularly in adaptions of novels by Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish author. She was the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and most widely known for her children's book Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige ....

. Especially the accuracy with which he mastered the double exposure, for example in The Phantom Carriage

Körkarlen (1921 film)

The Phantom Carriage is a 1921 Swedish film generally considered to be one of the central works in the history of Swedish cinema. Released on New Year's Day 1921, it was directed by and starred Victor Sjöström, alongside Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg and Astrid Holm...

, was much admired at the time.

He was portrayed by Carl Magnus Dellow in the 2000 television play The Image Makers

The Image Makers

The Image Makers is a 2000 Swedish TV drama directed by Ingmar Bergman and written by Per Olov Enquist....

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Selected filmography

• To the Orient (Till österland) (1926)
• The Ingmar Inheritance (Ingmarsarvet) (1925)
• The Saga of Gosta Berling
  Gösta Berlings saga (film)
  The Saga of Gosta Berling is a 1924 Swedish romantic drama film directed by Mauritz Stiller and released by AB Svensk Filmindustri, starring Lars Hanson, Gerda Lundequist and Greta Garbo in her native break-out role on film. The film is based on the 1891 debut novel of the same name by the Swedish...
  
  (Gösta Berlings saga) (1924)
• The Blizzard
  The Blizzard (1923 film)
  The Blizzard is a Swedish silent drama film directed by Mauritz Stiller and starring Einar Hanson, Mary Johnson, Pauline Brunius and Hugo Björne. The film's original Swedish title is Gunnar Hedes saga...
  
  (Gunnar Hedes saga) (1923)
• Love's Crucible (Vem dömer) (1922)
• The Phantom Carriage
  Körkarlen (1921 film)
  The Phantom Carriage is a 1921 Swedish film generally considered to be one of the central works in the history of Swedish cinema. Released on New Year's Day 1921, it was directed by and starred Victor Sjöström, alongside Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg and Astrid Holm...
  
  (Körkarlen) (1921)
• A Lover in Pawn
  A Lover in Pawn
  A Lover in Pawn is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström.-Cast:* Victor Sjöström - Sammel Eneman* Concordia Selander - Mutter Boman* Greta Almroth - Tora* Harald Schwenzen - Knut* Tor Weijden - Sailor...
  
  (Mästerman) (1920)
• Sir Arne's Treasure
  Sir Arne's Treasure
  Sir Arne's Treasure is a 1919 Swedish crime-drama film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Richard Lund, Hjalmar Selander, Concordia Selander and Mary Johnson. It is based on the novel Herr Arne's Hoard by Selma Lagerlöf, originally published in 1903...
  
  (Herr Arnes pengar) (1919)
• Sons of Ingmar
  Sons of Ingmar
  Sons of Ingmar is a 1919 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the first part of his adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, originally published 1901-1902. It was followed by a second part, Karin, Daughter of Ingmar, the following year...
  
  (Ingmarssönerna) (1919)
• The Outlaw and His Wife
  The Outlaw and His Wife
  The Outlaw and His Wife is a 1918 Swedish silent film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a play from 1911 by Jóhann Sigurjónsson. It tells the story of Eyvind of the Hills, an 18th century Icelandic outlaw....
  
  (Berg-Ejvind och hans hustru) (1918)
• A Man There Was
  Terje Vigen (film)
  A Man There Was is a 1917 Swedish drama directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a poem of the same title by Henrik Ibsen. At a cost of 60,000 SEK it was the by then most expensive Swedish film ever made, marking a new direction in Swedish cinema with more funding to fewer films, resulting in more...
  
  (Terje Vigen) (1917)
• The Wings
  The Wings (film)
  -Production background:The film was directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Egil Eide, Lars Hanson, Lili Bech, and Julius Hälsig, and was based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel Mikaël, which was the same source Carl Theodor Dreyer used for his 1924 film Michael....
  
  (Vingarne) (1916)
• Kiss of Death
  Kiss of Death (1916 film)
  Kiss of Death is a 1916 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. Approximately 30 minutes of the film survives in the Cinémathèque Française film archive.-Cast:* Victor Sjöström - Överingenjör Weyler / Ingenjör Lebel...
  
  (Dödskyssen) (1916)

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