Eduard Tisse

Birthday: April 1st, 1897 Date of Death: November 18th, 1961 Place of Birth: Liepāja, Latvia

Eduard Tisse (13 April 1897 – 18 November 1961) was a Soviet cinematographer. In 1921, Tisse became a professor at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. His career took off when he worked with director Sergei Eisenstein on the film Strike. Tisse would become Eisenstein's standard cinematographer for the next twenty years.