National Film Registry Cinematographers
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1. John Waters
Writer | Pecker
Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s, John Waters was not like other children; he was obsessed by violence and gore, both real and on the screen. With his weird counter-culture friends as his cast, he began making silent 8mm and 16mm films in the mid-'60s; he screened these in rented Baltimore ...
Pink Flamingos (1972) - 2021
2. Néstor Almendros
Cinematographer | Days of Heaven
One of the highest appraised contemporary cinematographers. He was born in Spain but moved to Cuba by age 18 to join his exiled anti-Franco father. In Havana, he founded a cineclub and wrote film reviews. Then, he went on to study in Rome at the Centro Sperimentale. He directed six shorts in Cuba ...
Days of Heaven (1978) - 2007
3. Michael Ballhaus
Cinematographer | Goodfellas
Michael Ballhaus was a German cinematographer. He worked on many American films, including Baby It's You (1983), Old Enough (1984), After Hours (1985), The Color of Money (1986), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), Goodfellas (1990), Dracula (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993), Gangs of New York ...
Broadcast News (1987) - 2018 Goodfellas (1990) - 2000
4. Adrian Biddle
Cinematographer | V for Vendetta
Adrian Biddle was born on July 20, 1952 in Woolwich, London, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for V for Vendetta (2005), Thelma & Louise (1991) and 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992). He was married to Mo. He died on December 7, 2005 in London, England, UK.
The Princess Bride (1987) - 2016 Thelma & Louise (1991) - 2016
5. Jan de Bont
Director | Speed
Jan de Bont was one of 17 children born into a Roman Catholic Dutch family in Eindhoven on 22 October 1943. Credited with being creative and having a good mentality for camera techniques, he became a popular cinematographer. He worked on a huge number of films before finding himself on the ...
Die Hard (1988) - 2017
6. Tom DiCillo
Director | Delirious
Tom DiCillo is an American director, cinematographer, writer and (sometimes) actor born in Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina, and who studied film at New York University. During his early career he began working with director Jim Jarmusch as a cinematographer on films that include Stranger Than Paradise...
7. John Huston
Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...
San Pietro (1945) - 1991 Let There Be Light (1946) - 2010
8. Janusz Kaminski
Cinematographer | War Horse
Janusz Kaminski is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has established a partnership with Steven Spielberg, working as a cinematographer on his movies since 1993. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).
His ...
Schindler's List (1993) - 2004 Saving Private Ryan (1998) - 2014
9. Robert Rodriguez
Producer | El mariachi
Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. His family is of Mexican descent.
Of all the people to be amazed by the images of John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi parable, Escape from New York (1981), none ...
El Mariachi (1992) - 2011
10. George A. Romero
Writer | Land of the Dead
George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure; by all indications, though, he was very successful. The director of the groundbreaking "Living Dead" films was born February 4, 1940 ,in New York City to Ann (Dvorsky) and Jorge Romero. His father was born in Spain and raised in Cuba, and...
11. Barry Sonnenfeld
Director | Men in Black
Barry Sonnenfeld was born and raised in New York City. He graduated from New York University Film School in 1978. He started work as director of photography on the Oscar-nominated In Our Water (1982). Then Joel Coen and Ethan Coen hired him for Blood Simple (1984). This film began his collaboration...
12. Kenneth Anger
Director | Fireworks
Kenneth Anger grew up in Hollywood and started out as a child actor, but his interest in filmmaking was evident at an early age: he made his first film, Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) , at age 14.
Anger developed into one of the pioneers of the American underground film movement. His ...
Eaux d'artifice (1953) - 1993 Scorpio Rising (1963) - 2022
13. Samuel Fuller
Writer | Shock Corridor
At age 17, Samuel Fuller was the youngest reporter ever to be in charge of the events section of the New York Journal. After having participated in the European battle theater in World War II, he directed some minor action productions for which he mostly wrote the scripts himself and which he also ...
V-E +1 (1945) - 2014
14. James Wong Howe
Cinematographer | The Thin Man
Master cinematographer James Wong Howe, whose career stretched from silent pictures through the mid-'70s, was born Wong Tung Jim in Canton (now Guangzhou), China, on August 28, 1899, the son of Wong How. His father emigrated to America the year James was born, settling in Pasco, Washington, where ...
Peter Pan (1924) - 2000 The Power and the Glory (1933) - 2014 The Thin Man (1934) - 1997 The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) - 1991 Fantasia (1940)(live-action segments) - 1990 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - 1993 Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - 1993 Hud (1963) - 2018 Seconds (1966) - 2015
15. Jörg Widmer
Cinematographer | A Hidden Life
Jörg Widmer is known for A Hidden Life (2019), V for Vendetta (2005) and The Tree of Life (2011).
16. Jack Cardiff
Cinematographer | Black Narcissus
Almost universally considered one of the greatest cinematographers of all time, Jack Cardiff was also a notable director. He described his childhood as very happy and his parents as quite loving. They performed in music hall as comedians, so he grew up with the fun that came with their theatrical ...
The African Queen (1951) - 1994
17. Henri Alekan
Cinematographer | Der Himmel über Berlin
Henri Alekan was born on February 10, 1909 in Paris, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Wings of Desire (1987), Roman Holiday (1953) and Beauty and the Beast (1946). He was married to Nadia Starcevic. He died on June 15, 2001 in Auxerre, Yonne, France.
Roman Holiday (1953) - 1999
18. John A. Alonzo
Cinematographer | Chinatown
John A. Alonzo was born on June 12, 1934 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Chinatown (1974), The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Star Trek: Generations (1994). He was married to Suzanne L. Heltzel and Jan Murray. He died on March 13, 2001 in Beverly Hills, California...
Harold and Maude (1971) - 1997 Sounder (1972) - 2021 Wattstax (1973) - 2020 Chinatown (1974) - 1991 Norma Rae (1979) - 2011
19. Nicholas Musuraca
Cinematographer | Out of the Past
Italian-born Nicholas Musuraca's first job in the film business was as a chauffeur to early pioneering producer/director J. Stuart Blackton. Having a knack for photography, he worked behind the cameras in a variety of jobs before finally becoming a cinematographer (or, as they were called in those ...
Cat People (1942) - 1993 Out of the Past (1947) - 1991 The Hitch-Hiker (1953) - 1998
20. Fred Murphy
Cinematographer | Metro
Fred Murphy was born in 1942 in New York, USA. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Metro (1997), Stir of Echoes (1999) and Secret Window (2004).
Girlfriends (1978) - 2019 Hoosiers (1986) - 2001
21. Charles Van Enger
Cinematographer | Frisco Sal
Charles Van Enger was born on August 29, 1890 in Port Jervis, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer and assistant director, known for Frisco Sal (1945), Lucky Devils (1941) and The Last of the Mohicans (1920). He was married to Gwendolyn Evans. He died on July 4, 1980 in Woodland Hills, Los ...
The Last of the Mohicans (1920) - 1995 Salomé (1922) - 2000 The Phantom of the Opera (1925) - 1998 Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) - 2002 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) - 2001
22. Robert De Grasse
Cinematographer | Vivacious Lady
Coming from a show-business family (his brother Joseph De Grasse was a director and his uncle Sam De Grasse was an actor), De Grasse entered the business as an assistant cameraman while still a high school student, and showed such promise that he was made a full-time cinematographer by age 21. He ...
The House I Live In (1945) - 2007
23. Jim Denault
Camera_department | Bad Lieutenant
Jim Denault is a cinematographer known for his work in feature films and television. He is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the American Society of Cinematographers. He received a BFA in Photographic Illustration from ...
Boys Don't Cry (1999) - 2019 Real Women Have Curves (2002) - 2019
24. Brian Capener
Cinematographer | Smoke Signals
Brian Capener was born in Ithaca, New York, USA. He is known for Smoke Signals (1998), The Ice Runner (1992) and Nora's Christmas Gift (1989).
Smoke Signals (1998) - 2018
25. Freddie Young
Cinematographer | Lawrence of Arabia
Freddie Young was a British cinematographer. He is best known for his work on David Lean's films Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970), all three of which won him Academy Awards for Best Cinematography.
Young was an cinematographer on 130 films, including ...
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - 1991
26. Wally Pfister
Cinematographer | Inception
Wally Pfister is an American cinematographer and film director, who is best known for his work with Christopher Nolan. He is also known for his work on director F. Gary Gray's The Italian Job (2003) and Bennett Miller's Moneyball (2011).
He made his directorial debut with the film Transcendence (...
Memento (2000) - 2017 The Dark Knight (2008) - 2020
27. David Klein
Cinematographer | The Mandalorian
David Klein was born in December 1972. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for The Mandalorian (2019), The Book of Boba Fett (2021) and Deadwood: The Movie (2019). He has been married to Marnie Shelton since November 24, 2001.
Clerks (1994) - 2019
28. Charles Rosher
Cinematographer | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Among the foremost technical innovators in his field, a charter member of the American Society of Cinematographers, English-born Charles Rosher had initially aimed for a diplomatic career. Fortunately, he chose a different career option and attended lessons in photography at the London Polytechnic ...
Sunrise (1927) - 1989
29. László Kovács
Cinematographer | Easy Rider
László Kovács was born on May 14, 1933 in Cece, Hungary. He is known for his work on Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Ghostbusters (1984) and Copycat (1995). He won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASC in 2002. He was married to Audrey. He died on July 22, 2007 in Beverly Hills, ...
Easy Rider (1969) - 1998 Five Easy Pieces (1970) - 2000 Ghostbusters (1984) - 2015
30. Gabriel Figueroa
Cinematographer | La perla
Gabriel Figueroa was born on April 24, 1907 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a cinematographer, known for The Pearl (1947), The Young and the Damned (1950) and Maria Candelaria (1944). He died on April 27, 1997 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
The Pearl (1947) - 2002
31. Adam Greenberg
Cinematographer | Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Adam Greenberg was born on April 11, 1937 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He is a cinematographer, known for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Ghost (1990) and The Terminator (1984).
The Terminator (1984) - 2008 La Bamba (1987) - 2017 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) - 2023
32. Donald E. Thorin
Cinematographer | Thief
Donald E. Thorin was born on October 12, 1934 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was a cinematographer and assistant director, known for Thief (1981), Tango & Cash (1989) and Lock Up (1989). He died on February 9, 2016 in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Purple Rain (1984) - 2019
33. Haskell Wexler
Cinematographer | Medium Cool
Two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler was adjudged one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history, according to an International Cinematographers Guild survey of its membership. He won his Oscars in both black & white and color, for Who's Afraid of ...
America America (1963) - 2001 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) - 2013 In the Heat of the Night (1967) - 2002 Medium Cool (1969) - 2003 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - 1993 Matewan (1987) - 2023
34. John Alcott
Cinematographer | Barry Lyndon
John Alcott, the Oscar-winning cinematographer best known for his collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, was born in 1931, in Isleworth, England, the son of movie executive Arthur Alcott, who would become the production controller at Gainsborough Studios during the 1940s.
Alcott began his film...
A Clockwork Orange (1971) - 2020 The Shining (1980) - 2018
35. Lucien N. Andriot
Cinematographer | And Then There Were None
Beginning his Hollywood career in 1914 - after several years experience as a cameraman in France, starting with Zigomar, roi des voleurs (1911) - French-born Lucien Andriot was one of the most prolific of American cinematographers. A competent craftsman, he photographed some top-quality features, ...
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) - 1991 The Big Trail (1930) - 2006
36. Joseph H. August
Cinematographer | Portrait of Jennie
Renowned cinematographer Joseph August began his film career not as a cameraman but as a wrangler--he was born and raised in Colorado--at Inceville, the studio begun by pioneering producer/director Thomas H. Ince. He soon switched careers, becoming an assistant to cinematographer Ray C. Smallwood. ...
The Italian (1915) - 1991 Civilization (1915) - 1991 Hell's Hinges (1916) - 1999 Twentieth Century (1934) - 1994 The Informer (1935) - 2011 Gunga Din (1939) - 2018 Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) - 1999 Melody Ranch (1940) - 2002
37. Lucien Ballard
Cinematographer | The Wild Bunch
Lucien Ballard, the cinematographer best known for his collaboration with director Sam Peckinpah on such films as The Wild Bunch (1969), was born in Miami, Oklahoma. Ballard became a wanderer after dropping out of the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma, journeying ...
Ride the High Country (1962) - 1992 The Wild Bunch (1969) - 1999
38. Joseph F. Biroc
Camera_department | The Towering Inferno
Joseph Biroc was destined to become one of the most versatile cinematographers in Hollywood, working on films of almost every genre. He started as a lab assistant in 1918, based at Paragon Studio, located in America's first 'film capital', Ft.Lee, New Jersey. From there, he moved on to the ...
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - 1990 Blazing Saddles (1974) - 2006 Airplane! (1980) - 2010
39. G.W. Bitzer
Cinematographer | The Birth of a Nation
G.W. Bitzer was born on April 21, 1872 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for The Birth of a Nation (1915), Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl (1919) and Logging in Maine (1906). He was married to Ethel Boddy. He died on April 29, 1944 in ...
Rip Van Winkle (1896) - 1995 President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901) - 2000 Westinghouse Works (1904) - 1998 New York Subway (1905) - 2017 Lady Helen's Escapade (1909) - 2004 A Corner in Wheat (1909) - 1994 The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) - 2016 The Birth of a Nation (1915) - 1992 Intolerance (1916) - 1989 Broken Blossoms (1919) - 1996
40. Ralf D. Bode
Cinematographer | Dressed to Kill
American cinematographer, originally from Germany. At fourteen, Bode came to the United States, where he was schooled at the University of Vermont. An avid photographer, he taught combat photography and made training films while serving with the U.S. Army Signal Corps. Following his military ...
Saturday Night Fever (1977) - 2010 Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) - 2019
41. Russell Carpenter
Cinematographer | Avatar: The Way of Water
Russell Carpenter was born on December 9, 1950 in Van Nuys, California, USA. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), Titanic (1997) and Ant-Man (2015).
Titanic (1997) - 2017
42. William H. Clothier
Cinematographer | The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
William H. Clothier was born on February 21, 1903 in Decatur, Illinois, USA. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), The Alamo (1960) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). He was married to Carmen Clothier. He died on January 7, 1996 in Los Angeles, ...
43. Stanley Cortez
Cinematographer | The Magnificent Ambersons
Stanley Cortez was born Samuel Krantz in New York City, New York, the son of Sarah (Lefkowitz) and Moses/Morris Krantz, Austrian Jewish immigrants. His famous actor brother, born Jacob Krantz, changed his name to Ricardo Cortez in order to acquire a more suitably romantic Hollywood image. Stanley ...
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) - 1991 Let There Be Light (1946) - 2010 The Night of the Hunter (1955) - 1992 Shock Corridor (1963) - 1996
44. Jordan Cronenweth
Cinematographer | Blade Runner
Jordan Cronenweth was born on February 20, 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Blade Runner (1982), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and Altered States (1980). He was married to Carolyn June Ervin. He died on November 29, 1996 in Los Angeles, California, ...
Blade Runner (1982) - 1993 Stop Making Sense (1984) - 2021
45. Edward Cronjager
Cinematographer | Heaven Can Wait
Edward Cronjager was born on March 21, 1904 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Heaven Can Wait (1943), Home in Indiana (1944) and Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953). He was married to Yvette Bogdadly Bentley, Betty Douglas, Kay Sutton and Muriel Finley. ...
The Gang's All Here (1943) - 2014
46. Floyd Crosby
Cinematographer | High Noon
Floyd Delafield Crosby was born in 1899 to Fredrick Van Schoonhoven Crosby (1860-1920) and Julia Floyd Delafield (1874-1952). Floyd had one sibling, Katherine Van Rensselaer (Gregory). Floyd married Aliph Van Cortland Whitehead in 1940 and they had two children, Floyd Delafield Crosby (Ethan) in ...
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931) - 1994 The River (1938) - 1990 High Noon (1952) - 1989 House of Usher (1960) - 2005
47. Dean Cundey
Cinematographer | Jurassic Park
Multiple award-winning cinematographer Dean Cundey, ASC, CSC who was nominated for an Oscar for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and took home the BAFTA for the same film, has a career spanning decades with awards and nominations including a Primetime Emmy (2023 "The Mandalorian") a Daytime Emmy (2001 "...
Halloween (1978) - 2006 Back to the Future (1985) - 2007 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) - 2016 Jurassic Park (1993) - 2018 Apollo 13 (1995) - 2023
48. Allen Daviau
Cinematographer | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Allen Daviau was born on June 14, 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for E.T. (1982), Empire of the Sun (1987) and Bugsy (1991). He died on April 15, 2020 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.
49. Clyde De Vinna
Cinematographer | White Shadows in the South Seas
Educated at the University of Arkansas, Clyde De Vinna entered the film business almost at its beginnings, and became a cinematographer in 1915. He was behind the camera on dozens of films for many different studios, but did much work for independent producer Thomas H. Ince and MGM. De Vinna didn't...
Civilization (1915) - 1999 Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ (1925) - 1997 Tarzan and His Mate (1934) - 2003
50. Roger Deakins
Cinematographer | Blade Runner 2049
Roger Deakins is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers, Sam Mendes, and Denis Villeneuve.
He is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers.
Deakins' first feature film in America as cinematographer was Mountains of the Moon (...
The Shawshank Redemption (1994) - 2015 Fargo (1996) - 2006 The Big Lebowski (1998) - 2014
51. Tonino Delli Colli
Cinematographer | Der Name der Rose
Tonino Delli Colli was born on November 20, 1922 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for The Name of the Rose (1986), Life Is Beautiful (1997) and Once Upon a Time in America (1984). He was married to Alexandra Delli Colli. He died on August 16, 2005 in Rome, Lazio, ...
52. Peter Deming
Cinematographer | Mulholland Dr.
Peter Deming was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for Mulholland Drive (2001), The Menu (2022) and The Continental (2023).
House Party (1990) - 2022
53. William K.L. Dickson
Cinematographer | Sandow
Born in France to British parents, William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson stayed in that country until age 19, when he, his mother and sisters (their father had died sometime before) returned to Great Britain. Once there, Dickson--in an early indication of his lifelong fascination with science and ...
Newark Athlete (1891) - 2010
54. Edwin B. DuPar
Camera_department | Giant
Edwin B. DuPar was born on November 24, 1885 in Plum Creek, Nebraska, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Giant (1956), The Roaring Twenties (1939) and All Through the Night (1942). He died on June 4, 1961 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Clash of the Wolves (1925) - 2004
55. Frederick Elmes
Cinematographer | The Dead Don't Die
Frederick Elmes was born on November 4, 1946 in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, USA. He is a cinematographer, known for The Dead Don't Die (2019), The Night Of (2016) and Paterson (2016).
Eraserhead (1977) - 2004
56. Daniel L. Fapp
Cinematographer | West Side Story
American cinematographer who spent the bulk of his career at Paramount (1923-1959). After two years apprenticed in the studio lab, Fapp first worked the movie camera as an assistant in 1925. By 1941, he had graduated to full director of photography at the behest of cinematographer, turned director, ...
West Side Story (1961) - 1997
57. George J. Folsey
Cinematographer | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Pioneer cinematographer George Folsey started out in 1914 as an errand boy with the Lasky Feature Play Company in New York. His introduction to camerawork came, when he was asked by cinematographer H. Lyman Broening to assist with post-production (tracking dissolve and fades for intercutting). By ...
Applause (1929) - 2006 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) - 1994 Adam's Rib (1949) - 1992 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) - 2004 Forbidden Planet (1956) - 2013
58. William A. Fraker
Cinematographer | Bullitt
William A. Fraker was born on September 29, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Bullitt (1968), WarGames (1983) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). He was married to Denise Fraker. He died on May 31, 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Rosemary's Baby (1968) - 2014 Bullitt (1968) - 2007
59. Ellsworth Fredericks
Cinematographer | Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Ellsworth Fredericks was born on June 2, 1904 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Sayonara (1957) and Seven Days in May (1964). He died on August 16, 1993 in San Marcos, California, USA.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - 1994 Wild River (1960) - 2002
60. Karl Freund
Cinematographer | Metropolis
Karl Freund, an innovative director of photography responsible for development of the three-camera system used to shoot television situation comedies, was born on January 16, 1890, in the Bohemian city of Koeniginhof, then part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire (now known as Dvur Kralove in the Czech...
Dracula (1931) - 2000
61. Tak Fujimoto
Cinematographer | The Silence of the Lambs
Tak Fujimoto was born on July 12, 1939 in San Diego, California, USA. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Sixth Sense (1999) and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
Badlands (1973) - 1993 Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) - 2014 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) - 2011
62. Lee Garmes
Cinematographer | Scarface
One of the most innovative of pioneer cameramen, Lee Garmes started his career on the East Coast with the New York Motion Picture Company, but was soon persuaded by the director Thomas H. Ince to join him in Hollywood. Garmes quickly climbed his way up the ladder, from painter's assistant to prop ...
Morocco (1930) - 1992 Scarface (1932) - 1994
63. Merritt B. Gerstad
Cinematographer | A Night at the Opera
Merritt B. Gerstad was born on July 5, 1900 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Merritt B. was a cinematographer, known for A Night at the Opera (1935), The Ice Flood (1926) and The Unknown (1927). Merritt B. died on March 1, 1974 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.
Freaks (1932) - 1994 Imitation of Life (1934) - 2005 A Night at the Opera (1935) - 1993
64. Alfred Gilks
Cinematographer | An American in Paris
Alfred Gilks was born on December 29, 1891 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for An American in Paris (1951), The Searchers (1956) and Midshipman Jack (1933). He died on September 6, 1970 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Little Miss Marker (1934) - 1998 Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) - 2014 An American in Paris (1951) - 1993
65. Jack N. Green
Cinematographer | Unforgiven
Jack N. Green was born on November 18, 1946 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Unforgiven (1992), The Bridges of Madison County (1995) and Beverly Hills Cop (1984).
Unforgiven (1992) - 2004
66. Loyal Griggs
Cinematographer | Shane
Loyal Griggs entered the film industry in the mid-1920s, directly out of high school, as an assistant in the special effects department of Paramount. He was a cameraman for nearly 30 years before graduating to director of photography, and he proved his worth by winning an Academy Award for ...
Shane (1953) - 1993 The Ten Commandments (1956) - 1999
67. René Guissart
Director | Sweet Devil
René Guissart was born on October 24, 1888 in Paris, France. René was a cinematographer and director, known for Sweet Devil (1938), Je te confie ma femme (1933) and Les soeurs Hortensia (1935). René died on May 19, 1960 in Monaco.
68. Conrad L. Hall
Cinematographer | Road to Perdition
Born in Tahiti, the son of writer James Norman Hall, author of "Mutiny on the Bounty," Conrad Hall studied filmmaking at USC. He and two classmates formed a production company and sold a project to a local television station. Hall's company branched out into making industrial films and TV ...
Cool Hand Luke (1967) - 2005 In Cold Blood (1967) - 2008 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - 2003
69. Ernest Haller
Cinematographer | Gone with the Wind
Distinguished American cinematographer Ernest Haller started in the industry in 1914 as an actor with Biograph after leaving his first job as a bank clerk. Within one year he discovered his true calling: being on the other side of the camera. By 1920, he had become a full director of photography ...
The Emperor Jones (1933) - 1999 Jezebel (1938) - 2009 Gone with the Wind (1939) - 1989 Mildred Pierce (1945) - 1996 Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - 1990 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) - 2021 Lilies of the Field (1963) - 2020
70. Russell Harlan
Cinematographer | To Kill a Mockingbird
Born Russell September 16, 1903 in Los Angeles, California to Frank and Bertha Harlan, who hailed from Iowa and Missouri. Russell was raised in Los Angeles along with his younger brother Richard (b. 1911). His paternal grandmother Sarah J. Harlan also lived with the family.
Harlan started in the ...
A Walk in the Sun (1945) - 2016 Red River (1948) - 1990 Gun Crazy (1950) - 1998 The Thing from Another World (1951) - 2001 Blackboard Jungle (1955) - 2016 Rio Bravo (1959) - 2014 To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) - 1995
71. Sidney Hickox
Cinematographer | To Have and Have Not
Hickox started out as assistant cameraman at the Manhattan Biograph Studios in 1915, followed by two years of wartime photographic work with the U.S. Naval Air Service. He joined First National after 1919, graduating to director of photography by 1927. When Warner Brothers absorbed that company in ...
The Big Sleep (1946) - 1997 White Heat (1949) - 2003
72. Jack Hildyard
Cinematographer | The Bridge on the River Kwai
Jack Hildyard was a British cinematographer. He made several films with David Lean including The Sound Barrier (1952), Hobson's Choice (1954), and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
He also work in Another Time, Another Place (1958), ...
73. Winton C. Hoch
Cinematographer | The Quiet Man
Winton C. Hoch was born on July 31, 1905 in Storm Lake, Iowa, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Quiet Man (1952), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) and The Searchers (1956). He died on March 20, 1979 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
The Quiet Man (1952) - 2013 The Searchers (1956) - 1989
74. Victor J. Kemper
Cinematographer | The Final Countdown
Victor J. Kemper was born on April 14, 1927 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Final Countdown (1980), Clue (1985) and Vacation (1983). He was married to Claire. He died on November 27, 2023 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.
The Hospital (1971) - 1995 Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - 2009
75. Benjamin H. Kline
Cinematographer | Guard That Girl
Benjamin H. Kline was born on July 11, 1894 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Guard That Girl (1935), The Party's Over (1934) and Troopers Three (1930). He was married to Annette Halprin. He died on January 7, 1974 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, ...
Sky High (1922) - 1998 Detour (1945) - 1992
76. Fred J. Koenekamp
Cinematographer | The Towering Inferno
Fred J. Koenekamp was born on November 11, 1922 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Towering Inferno (1974), Patton (1970) and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984). He died on May 31, 2017 in Bonita Springs, Florida, USA.
Patton (1970) - 2003
77. Milton R. Krasner
Cinematographer | An Affair to Remember
Milton Krasner entered the film industry as an assistant cameraman in 1917, and while working at the Vitagraph and Biograph studios in New York City was promoted to camera operator. Graduating to lighting cameraman in 1933, he was assigned mostly second features until the mid-'40s, when his ...
The Bank Dick (1940) - 1992 All About Eve (1950) - 1990 How the West Was Won (1962) - 1997
78. Joseph LaShelle
Cinematographer | Laura
Trained as an electrical engineer, Joseph LaShelle entered the film industry as a lab assistant with Paramount in 1920 in order to finance entry to Stanford University. Having worked his way up to superintendent of the Paramount printing room after three years, he decided to stay on. By 1925, he ...
Laura (1944) - 1999 Marty (1955) - 1994 The Apartment (1960) - 1994 How the West Was Won (1962) - 1997
79. Edward Lachman
Cinematographer | Far from Heaven
Edward Lachman was born on March 31, 1948 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Far from Heaven (2002), Carol (2015) and Ken Park (2002).
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) - 2023 Selena (1997) - 2021
80. Ernest Laszlo
Cinematographer | Logan's Run
Ernest Laszlo, the Academy Award-winning cinematographer best known for his creative collaborations with directors Robert Aldrich and Stanley Kramer, was born on April 23, 1898, in Budapest, Hungary, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
After emigrating to the US, he worked as a camera operator...
D.O.A. (1949) - 2004 Kiss Me Deadly (1955) - 1999 Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - 2013
81. Philip H. Lathrop
Cinematographer | Earthquake
Philip H. Lathrop was born on October 22, 1912 in Merced, California, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Earthquake (1974), The Pink Panther (1963) and The Americanization of Emily (1964). He was married to Molly Lathrop and Betty Jo Lathrop. He died on April 12, 1995 in Los Angeles...
Days of Wine and Roses (1962) - 2018 The Pink Panther (1963) - 2010 Point Blank (1967) - 2016
82. Marcel Le Picard
Cinematographer | Voodoo Man
Marcel Le Picard was born on January 17, 1887 in Le Havre, France. Marcel was a cinematographer, known for Voodoo Man (1944), Borrowed Hero (1941) and Miss V from Moscow (1942). Marcel died on May 25, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Jubilo (1919) - 2021 Mom and Dad (1945) - 2005
83. Matthew F. Leonetti
Cinematographer | Strange Days
Matthew F. Leonetti was born on July 31, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Strange Days (1995), Star Trek: First Contact (1996) and The Butterfly Effect (2004).
84. Edward Linden
Cinematographer | King Kong
Edward Linden was born on August 26, 1891 in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for King Kong (1933), The Secret of Treasure Island (1938) and The Lost City (1935). He died on November 15, 1956 in Hollywood, California, USA.
King Kong (1933) - 1991
85. Chester A. Lyons
Cinematographer | Mad Love
Chester A. Lyons was born on May 26, 1885 in Westfield, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Mad Love (1935), The Valley of Silent Men (1922) and Women's Wares (1927). He was married to Katherine. He died on November 27, 1936 in Hollywood, California, USA.
86. Oliver T. Marsh
Cinematographer | Sweethearts
Oliver T. Marsh was born on January 30, 1892 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Oliver T. was a cinematographer, known for Sweethearts (1938), Bitter Sweet (1940) and Maytime (1937). Oliver T. was married to Elizabeth. Oliver T. died on May 5, 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.
A Virtuous Vamp (1919) - 2013 The Women (1939) - 2007
87. Jack A. Marta
Camera_department | Batman: The Movie
Jack A. Marta was born on March 5, 1903 in Laurin, Montana, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Batman: The Movie (1966), The Name of the Game (1968) and It Could Happen to You (1937). He died on June 26, 1991 in Sheridan, Montana, USA.
Under Western Stars (1938) - 2009
88. Rudolph Maté
Cinematographer | Gilda
One of the most respected cinematographers in the industry, Polish-born Rudolph Mate entered the film business after his graduation from the University of Budapest. He worked in Hungary as an assistant cameraman for Alexander Korda and later worked throughout Europe with noted cameraman Karl Freund...
Dodsworth (1936) - 1990 To Be or Not to Be (1942) - 1996 Gilda (1946) - 2013
89. Ted D. McCord
Cinematographer | The Sound of Music
Ted McCord learned his craft "on the job" as a camera assistant at Hobart Bosworth Productions in 1917. His first credited film as full-fledged cinematographer was Sacred and Profane Love (1921), billing himself as "T.D.McCord". During the '20s he worked on a wide variety of subjects, from romantic...
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) - 1990 East of Eden (1955) - 2016 The Sound of Music (1965) - 2001
90. William C. Mellor
Cinematographer | A Place in the Sun
Mellor began his career in the photographic labs at Paramount in the mid-20's. By 1934, he had graduated to full-time director of photography, working primarily on the studio's lesser productions. At the same time, he continued to serve his apprenticeship by assisting veteran cinematographer Victor...
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) - 2010 Road to Morocco (1942) - 1996 George Stevens' World War II Footage (1943-1946) - 2008 A Place in the Sun (1951) - 1991 The Naked Spur (1953) - 1997 Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) - 2018 Giant (1956) - 2005
91. John J. Mescall
Cinematographer | Bride of Frankenstein
John J. Mescall was born on January 10, 1899 in Litchfield, Illinois, USA. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Take a Letter, Darling (1942) and The Black Cat (1934). He died on February 10, 1962 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - 1998 Show Boat (1936) - 1996
92. Russell Metty
Cinematographer | Spartacus
Cinematographer Russell Metty, a superb craftsman who worked with such top directors as John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and Orson Welles, was born in Los Angeles on September 20, 1906. Entering the movie industry as a lab assistant, he apprenticed as an assistant cameraman and ...
Bringing Up Baby (1938) - 1990 Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) - 2007 Story of G.I. Joe (1945) - 2009 All That Heaven Allows (1955) - 1995 Touch of Evil (1958) - 1993 Imitation of Life (1959) - 2015 Spartacus (1960) - 2017 Flower Drum Song (1961) - 2008
93. Victor Milner
Cinematographer | Reap the Wild Wind
Pioneering cinematographer Victor Milner acquired his fascination with the celluloid media during the days of the nickelodeon. After working as a lab assistant for a film equipment manufacturer, he joined Pathe Weekly News in the capacity of projectionist and newsreel cameraman. Among other events,...
Love Me Tonight (1932) - 1990 Trouble in Paradise (1932) - 1991 The Lady Eve (1941) - 1994
94. Hal Mohr
Cinematographer | Phantom of the Opera
Distinguished pioneering cinematographer who had a career in motion pictures lasting six-decades. As a teenager, Hal built his own camera while still at school and took photos of local interest which he then developed and printed. He sent a number of these pictures to the New York Herald-Tribune ...
The Jazz Singer (1927) - 1996 King of Jazz (1930) - 2013 State Fair (1933) - 2014 Destry Rides Again (1939) - 1996
95. Ira H. Morgan
Cinematographer | Modern Times
Ira H. Morgan was born on April 2, 1889 in Fort Ross, California, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Modern Times (1936), Lost in the Stratosphere (1934) and Congo Bill (1948). He was married to Rena Carlton. He died on April 10, 1959 in San Rafael, California, USA.
Modern Times (1936) - 1989
96. Reginald H. Morris
Cinematographer | A Christmas Story
Reginald H. Morris was born on July 4, 1918 in Ruislip, Middlesex, England, UK. Reginald H. was a cinematographer and director, known for A Christmas Story (1983), Superman (1978) and Black Christmas (1974). Reginald H. died on January 8, 2004 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
A Christmas Story (1983) - 2012
97. Miroslav Ondrícek
Cinematographer | Amadeus
Miroslav Ondrícek was born on November 4, 1934 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a cinematographer, known for Amadeus (1984), Hair (1979) and A League of Their Own (1992). He was married to Eva. He died on March 28, 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Amadeus (1984) - 2019 A League of Their Own (1992) - 2012
98. Ernest Palmer
Cinematographer | Blood and Sand
Ernest Palmer was born on December 6, 1885 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Blood and Sand (1941), Broken Arrow (1950) and Street Angel (1928). He died on February 22, 1978 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.
7th Heaven (1927) - 1995
99. Franz Planer
Cinematographer | Roman Holiday
Descended from a wealthy family of landowners in what was then Austria-Hungary, Franz Planer understood the importance of photography as an art form early in his life. He first stood behind the camera as a portrait photographer, working out of Vienna from 1910. He soon branched out, filming ...
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) - 1992 Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) - 2022 Roman Holiday (1953) - 1999 Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - 2012
100. Sol Polito
Cinematographer | The Adventures of Robin Hood
Sol Polito, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer who helped create the distinct visual character of Warner Bros. films in the 1930s and 1940s, was born Salvador Polito on November 12, 1892, in Palermo, Sicily. While still young he emigrated to the US with his family, which settled in New York City, ...
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - 1991 42nd Street (1933) - 1998 Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) - 2003 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - 1995 Sergeant York (1941) - 2008 Now, Voyager (1942) - 2007
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