William H. Daniels

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William H. Daniels (December 1, 1901 - June 14, 1970) was a film cinematographer best known as Greta Garbo's personal lensman. He worked regularly with director Erich von Stroheim.

His career as a cinematographer extended fifty years from the silent film Foolish Girls (1922) to Move (1970), although he was an uncredited camera operator on two earlier films (1919 and 1920). He also was a producer of some films in the 1960s and was President of American Society of Cinematographers 1961-63.

He was quoted as saying "I didn't create a 'Garbo face.' I just did portraits of her I would have done for any star. My lighting of her was determined by the requirements of a scene. I didn't, as some say I did, keep one side of her face light and the other dark. But I did always try to make the camera peer into the eyes, to see what was there."

Daniels was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1901. On his passing in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, William H. Daniels was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.