Cinematographer · 1872 to 1944
Billy Bitzer
Best rated (cinematography): Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (7.1)
- Cinematography films
- 18
- Cinematography avg
- 6.58
- Peak run
- 1916’21
- 7+ run
- 2 films
Cinematography films, by TMDB rating
The career
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
As a cinematographer, films with 25+ votes
Billy by the numbers
Average
6.58
8 rated films
Vote weighted
6.60
bigger films count more
Median
6.8
half are better
Consistency
±0.50
rating spread
Career
25y
1904 to 1928
Total votes
1.75K
across every film
Best
7.1
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Worst
5.9
The Avenging Conscience
Newest first
Filmography
| 1928 |  The Battle of the Sexes | · | 13 |
| 1924 |  America | · | 12 |
| 1923 | The White Rose | · | 8 |
| 1921 |  Orphans of the Storm | 6.8 | 106 |
| 1920 |  Way Down East | 6.9 | 120 |
| 1919 |  The Greatest Question | · | 14 |
| 1919 |  Scarlet Days | · | 11 |
| 1919 |  Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl | 6.9 | 251 |
| 1919 | The Mother and the Law | · | 10 |
| 1919 |  True Heart Susie | 7.0 | 54 |
| 1919 |  A Romance of Happy Valley | · | 18 |
| 1918 |  Hearts of the World | · | 24 |
| 1916 |  Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages | 7.1 | 390 |
| 1915 |  The Birth of a Nation | 5.9 | 618 |
| 1914 |  The Avenging Conscience | 5.9 | 33 |
| 1914 |  Home, Sweet Home | · | 15 |
| 1914 |  Judith of Bethulia | 6.1 | 33 |
| 1904 |  Westinghouse Works | · | 21 |
Better together?
Billy Bitzer's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: D.W. Griffith and Billy Bitzer movies
Takes