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.
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.
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
.
Filmography
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.
References
- .
- Steeman, Albert. Internet Encyclopedia of
Cinematographers, "William Daniels page," Rotterdam, The
Netherlands, 2007. Last accessed: December 28, 2007.
- Wallac, David "Dream Palaces of Hollywood's Golden Age."
Abrams, New York
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