Don Malkames

Malkames began his career at age 17 as an assistant cameraman at Hollywood's William Fox Studio. During the 1930s, he worked in the New York area as a director of photography; he was for several years head of the camera department at the Astoria Studios.

Malkames also invented a lenticular motion-picture process, designed a newsreel camera and served as a technical adviser to several film museums across the country.^[1]

He was the father of cinematographer Karl Malkames.^[2]

He died at 82 in Yonkers, New York.

• The Shadow Laughs (1933)
• Victims of Persecution (1933)
• Kol Nidre (1939)
• Paradise in Harlem (1939)
• Motel the Operator (1940)
• Overture to Glory (1940)
• Eli Eli (1940)
• Her Second Mother (1940)
• The Jewish Melody (1940)
• The Great Advisor (1940)
• The Music Master (Le Père Chopin) (1945)
• That Man of Mine (1946)
• Beware (1946)
• Hi-De-Ho (1947)
• Citizen Saint (1947)
• Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947)
• Junction 88 (1947)
• Miracle in Harlem (1948)
• Jigsaw (1949)
• Project X (1949)
• Sarumba (1950)
• Cry Murder (1950)
• So Young So Bad (1950)
• St. Benny the Dip (1951)
• That Man from Tangier (1953)
• Basin Street Revue (1956)
• The Burglar (1957)
• Terror in the City (1964)

• The Malkames Collection
• The First CineMakers at AbelCine
• IMDB: Don Malkames