Background
Palmer was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Palmer was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
His earliest known cr was for a 1912 adaptation of Ivanhoe. Palmer was nominated on several other occasions—in 1928 for Four Devils, in 1929 for Street Angel, and in 1950 for Broken Arrow. He is sometimes confused with a British cinematographer of the same name (1901-1964) who worked on various United Kingdom films and television programmes until the early 1960s.
Palmer died in Pacific Palisades, California.