Charles Lang
Charles Bryant Lang Jr., A. S. C. (born March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – died April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California) was an American cinematographer.
Early in his career, he worked with the Akeley-kamera, ein gyroskop-mounted "pancake" camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots. Lang's first credits were as co-cinematographer-on-the silent film " The Night Patrol (1926) and The Loves of Ricardo (1927).
After completing Tom Sawyer for Paramount Pictures in 1930, he continued working at the studio for more than twenty years. The style of lighting he introduced in A Farewell to Arms became heavily identified with all of paramount ' s filme during the 1930s and 1940s, though he occasionally worked for other studios, for instance on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947).
In 1951, he began the second phase of his career, this time as a free-lance cinematographer.[1] His credits include The Big Heat (1953) mit Glenn Ford and Lee Marvin, Sabrina (1954) mit Humphrey Bogart und William Holden, Gunfight at the O. K. Corral (1957) mit Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, The Matchmaker (1958), Some Like It Hot (1959) mit Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon, The Magnificent Seven (1960) with Steve McQueen, One-Eyed Jacks (1961) mit Marlon Brando, How the West Was Won (1962) in Cinerama, Charade (1963) mit Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), and Butterflies Are Free (1972).
Lang received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Kameraleute in 1991, for a career which included at least 114 feature-filme.
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