{{Short description|American cinematographer (died 1938)}} {{More citations|date=May 2025}} '''John W. Leezer''' (c. 1873 – August 8, 1938) was an American cinematographer active during the silent era. He is credited with shooting at least thirty-three films for Paramount Pictures, Fine Arts, the Brentwood Film Corporation, and Robertson-Cole Pictures, among others.
==Biography== Leezer moved to Hollywood in 1912 to work as a photographer for D. W. Griffith.<ref name="obit">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/progress-bulletin-sudden-illness-takes-l/171994524/ |title=Sudden Illness Takes Life of John Leezer |date=1938-08-08 |newspaper=The Progress-Bulletin |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2025-05-08}}{{Open access}}</ref>
Leezer had three children, Dorothy, Marion and Arthur.<ref name="obit"/> He lived for a time in Vista and in his last few years lived in Carlsbad. He died following a heart attack at his home in Carlsbad on August 8, 1938.<ref name="obit"/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-times-advocate-john-m-leezer-dies/171994746/ |title=John M. Leezer Dies in Carlsbad of Heart Attack |date=1938-08-08 |newspaper=Daily Times-Advocate |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2025-05-08}}{{Open access}}</ref>
==Partial filmography== {{columns-list|colwidth=30em| *''The Lily and the Rose'' (1915) *''Acquitted'' (1916) *''The Wood Nymph'' (1916) *''The Mystery of the Leaping Fish'' (1916) *''Hell-to-Pay Austin'' (1916) *''Cheerful Givers'' (1917) *''Daughter Angele'' (1917) *''The Kid Is Clever'' (1918) *''The Hope Chest'' (1918) *''Nobody Home'' (1919) *''I'll Get Him Yet'' (1919) *''Nugget Nell'' (1919) *''The Feud'' (1919) * ''The Triflers'' (1920) *''Just Like a Woman'' (1923) *''The Love Master'' (1924) *''White Fang'' (1925) *''The Wyoming Wildcat'' (1925) *''The Cowboy Musketeer'' (1925) *''The Arizona Streak'' (1926) *''Wild to Go'' (1926) *''The Masquerade Bandit'' (1926) *''The Cowboy Cop'' (1926) *''Out of the West'' (1926) *''Red Hot Hoofs'' (1926) }}
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0498818|name=John W. Leezer}} * {{Tcmdb name}}
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