Pioneer Cinematographer and Special Effects Artist. Active in Hollywood from 1913 through the early 1960s, he worked on over 90 movies. He came to California in 1911, getting his first movie industry job as a cameraman at the Mack Sennett Keystone Studio in 1913, where he filmed Charlie Chaplain, Mabel Normand, Gloria Swanson, the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and the Keystone Kops. After a stint with Fox Studios, he joined Vitagraph and filmed all the Larry Semon comedies. He later went to Warner Bros. Studios where he began working with special effects. His credits as a cinematographer included "Moby Dick" (1930) with John Barrymore, "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (1948), "Strangers on a Train" (1951), and "The Spirit of St. Louis" (1957). He retired in the early 1960s. In 1990, he received the President's Award of the American Society of Cinematographers in recognition of his contributions to the motion picture industry. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects for the 1943 film, "Air Force". He died at his home in Northridge, California, age 100.
Pioneer Cinematographer and Special Effects Artist. Active in Hollywood from 1913 through the early 1960s, he worked on over 90 movies. He came to California in 1911, getting his first movie industry job as a cameraman at the Mack Sennett Keystone Studio in 1913, where he filmed Charlie Chaplain, Mabel Normand, Gloria Swanson, the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and the Keystone Kops. After a stint with Fox Studios, he joined Vitagraph and filmed all the Larry Semon comedies. He later went to Warner Bros. Studios where he began working with special effects. His credits as a cinematographer included "Moby Dick" (1930) with John Barrymore, "The Treasure of Sierra Madre" (1948), "Strangers on a Train" (1951), and "The Spirit of St. Louis" (1957). He retired in the early 1960s. In 1990, he received the President's Award of the American Society of Cinematographers in recognition of his contributions to the motion picture industry. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects for the 1943 film, "Air Force". He died at his home in Northridge, California, age 100.
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