- He was killed with Jack Parry when a Hurricane fighter collided with their Avro Anson camera plane over Norfolk after filming for "A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941).
- Otto Kanturek became established as a cinematographer in the 20s and he worked for numerous silent movies.
- He also worked as a director on the romantic comedy The Student's Romance.
- In 1916 he was conscripted and was seconded to the special photographic services. During the First World War he also made his debut as Chief Cameraman.
- At the beginning of the 30s he shot many movies in Germany but with the rise of the National Socialism he left Germany.
- The cinematographer Otto Kanturek finished an education for graphics, afterwards he made first cinematical experiences at Gaumont where he worked or their newsreels. Finally he entered the film business in 1912 and he first was active as a cinematographer assistant for different companies.
- He trained at the Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna and, after a voluntary internship for Gaumont Newsreels, he became an assistant film cameraman with them in 1912 and the following year got a post with the producer Erich Pommer in Paris filming newsreels for Pathé, Gaumont and Éclair.
- His last cinematical works came at the beginning of the 40s into being with "Ten Days in Paris" (1940) and "Night Train to Munich" (1940).
- In 1914 he went to Milan to work for Milano-Film, then in 1915 to work with Sascha-Film in Vienna and with Alexander Korda in Budapest.
- Hewent to Prague where he realised the movies "Das Glück von Grinzing/Das Häuschen in Grinzing" (1933) and "V tom domecku pod Emauzy" 19(33) as a director, afterwards he went to London where he was able to continue his film career as a cinematographer.
- During the shooting of "A Yank in the R.A.F" (1941) Otto Kanturek was in a Avro Anson plane for aerial photography. This plane collided with a Hawker Hurrican pursuit plane and Otto Kanturek was killed on the spot.
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