Roland Totheroh — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Here he is. Rollie Totheroh, A. S. C. Who is he?

Oh, nobody except the guy who has photographed Charlie Chaplin in every picture he has made since they both left Essanay together nearly seven years ago. Chaplin and Totheroh have literally grown up together in motion pictures — Charlie in front of the camera and Rollie behind, underneath and on top of it.

The history of one of them is the history of the other and a story could not be told of one without the other. It is a fine commentary on both employer and employee in this business when two men so closely associated can go along day after day and year after year in perfect harmony and accord, and the relations of these two is but a symbol of the ideal that should obtain throughout the industry and in all branches of it.

Mr. Totheroh [Roland Totheroh] entered upon his cinematographic apprenticeship at Essanay nearly twelve years ago where so many A. S. C.s had their beginnings and while there he filmed productions under direction of G. M. Anderson [Gilbert M. “Broncho Billy” Anderson], Lloyd Ingraham, David Kirkland, Roy Clements, Arthur Mackley and others.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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