Eduard Tisse was born on April 13, 1897 in Libava, Grobina uyezd, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire as Eduard Kazimirovich Tisse. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Battleship Potemkin (1925), Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) and The Immortal Garrison (1956). He died on November 18, 1961 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR.