1944 - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
by cinemavis | created - 17 Apr 2011 | updated - 04 Oct 2014 | Public
1. 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.
2. Eduard Tisse
Cinematographer | Ivan Groznyy
Eduard Tisse was born on April 13, 1897 in Libava, Grobina uyezd, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire [now Liepaja, Latvia]. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and The Immortal Garrison (1956). He died on November 18, 1961 ...
3. Andrey Moskvin
Cinematographer | Ivan Groznyy
Andrey Moskvin was born on February 14, 1901 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a cinematographer, known for Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944), Pirogov (1947) and Aktrisa (1943). He died on February 28, 1961 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
4. John F. Seitz
Cinematographer | Double Indemnity
Distinguished veteran cinematographer John F. Seitz had eighteen patents for various photographic processes to his name. These included illuminating devices, processes for making dissolves and the matte shot, which he perfected during filming of Rex Ingram's Trifling Women (1922). Seitz started ...
5. Glen MacWilliams
Cinematographer | Lifeboat
Glen MacWilliams was born on May 21, 1898 in Saratoga, California, USA. Glen was a cinematographer, known for Lifeboat (1944), Lazybones (1925) and The Clairvoyant (1935). Glen died on April 15, 1984 in Seal Beach, California, USA.
6. Joseph Ruttenberg
Cinematographer | Gaslight
Four-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1893, at the age of four, his family moved to the United States, eventually settling in Boston. After schooling, he got his first job in 1907 working as a newsboy and personal runner for William ...
7. 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 ...
8. Henry Sharp
Cinematographer | Duck Soup
Henry Sharp was born on May 13, 1892 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Duck Soup (1933), Thunder (1929) and The Devil Is Driving (1932). He died on August 6, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
9. Robert Burks
Cinematographer | Vertigo
The favorite cinematographer of legendary director Alfred Hitchcock began working at Warner Bros. when he was 19 years old. He climbed his way up from camera operator to assistant camera man and eventually took over the Special Photographic Effects unit at Warners on Stage 5 in 1944. He became an ...
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