William H. Daniels

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William H. Daniels, A.S.C.

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Born December 1, 1901
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Died June 14, 1970
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Cinematographer
Years active 1922-1970
Spouse(s) Betty Lee Gaston

William H. Daniels, A.S.C. (December 1, 1901 - June 14, 1970) was an Academy Award-winning film cinematographer best known as Greta Garbo's personal lensman. He worked regularly with director Erich von Stroheim.[1]

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[edit] Career

His career as a cinematographer extended fifty years from the silent film Foolish Wives (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.[2]

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.

[edit] Filmography

  • New Moon (1940)
  • So Ends Our Night (1940)
  • Back Street (1940)
  • Love Crazy (1941)
  • They Met in Bombay (1941)
  • Honky Tonk (1941)
  • Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
  • Design for Scandal (1941)
  • Dr. Kildare's Victory (1941)
  • For Me and My Gal (1942)
  • Keeper of the Flame (1942)
  • Girl Crazy (1943)
  • The Heavenly Body (1943)
  • The Canterville Ghost (1943)
  • Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)
  • Sure Cures (1946)
  • Lured (1947) (aka Personal Column)
  • Diamond Demon (1947)
  • Brute Force (1947)
  • The Naked City (1948)
  • For the Love of Mary (1948)
  • Family Honeymoon (1948)
  • The Life of Riley (1949)
  • Illegal Entry (1949)
  • The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
  • Abandoned/Abandoned Woman (1949)
  • Three Came Home (1949)
  • Woman in Hiding (1950)
  • Winchester '73 (1950)
  • Deported (1950)
  • Harvey (1950)
  • Thunder on the Hill (1950)
  • Bright Victory (1951)
  • The Lady Pays Off (1951)
  • Never Wave at a WAC (1951)
  • When in Rome (1951)
  • Glory Alley (1951)
  • Pat and Mike (1952)
  • Plymouth Adventure (1952)
  • Thunder Bay (1952)
  • The Glenn Miller Story (1953)
  • The Far Country (1953)
  • War Arrow (1953)
  • Forbidden (1953)
  • Strategic Air Command (1954)
  • Six Bridges to Cross (1954)
  • The Shrike (1955)
  • Foxfire (1955)
  • The Girl Rush (1955)
  • The Benny Goodman Story (1955)
  • Away All Boats (1956)
  • The Unguarded Moment (1956)
  • Istanbul (1956)
  • Interlude (1956)
  • Night Passage (1956)
  • My Man Godfrey (1957)
  • Voice in the Mirror (1958)
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
  • Some Came Running (1958)
  • A Stranger in My Arms (1958)
  • A Hole in the Head (1958)
  • Never So Few (1959)
  • Can-Can (1959)
  • Ocean's Eleven (1960)
  • All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
  • Come September (1961)
  • How the West Was Won (1961)    [Segment "The Plains."]
  • Something's Got to Give (1962)    [Released as part of the Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days 37m.]
  • Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
  • Dokonjo monogatari - zeni no odori (1963)
  • Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
  • The Prize (1963)
  • Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
  • Von Ryan's Express (1965)
  • Marriage on the Rocks (1965)
  • Assault on a Queen (1966)
  • In Like Flint (1966)
  • Valley of the Dolls (1967)
  • The Impossible Years (1968)
  • Marlowe (1968)
  • The Maltese Bippy (1969)
  • Move (1970

[edit] Awards

Wins

  • Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, for The Naked City; 1949.

Nominated

  • Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, for Anna Christie,; 1930.
  • Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Color, for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; 1959.
  • Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Color, How the West Was Won (1962); shared with: Milton R. Krasner, Charles Lang, Joseph LaShelle; 1964.

[edit] References

  1. ^ William H. Daniels at the Internet Movie Database.
  2. ^ Steeman, Albert. Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers, "William Daniels page," Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2007. Last accessed: December 28, 2007.

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