A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Charles B. Lang, Jr.
Charles Bryant Lang
Charles Bryant Lang, Jr.
Charles Lang, Jr.
The Professor
Birthplace:
Bluff, Utah, USA
Born:
March 27, 1902
Died:
April 3, 1998
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 camera, a gyroscope-mounted "pancake" camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots. Lang's first credits were as co-cinematographer on the silent films 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 films 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) with Glenn Ford and Lee Marvin, Sabrina (1954) with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, The Matchmaker (1958), Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon, The Magnificent Seven (1960) with Steve McQueen, One-Eyed Jacks (1961) with Marlon Brando, How the West Was Won (1962) in Cinerama, Charade (1963) with 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 Cinematographers in 1991, for a career which included at least 114 feature films.
Cinematography:
1931 Newly Rich
Director of Photography:
1928 The Shopworn Angel
1930 Anybody's Woman
1930 Behind the Make-Up
1930 For the Defense
1930 Sarah and Son
1930 Seven Days Leave
1930 Street of Chance
1930 The Light of Western Stars
1930 The Right to Love
1930 Tom Sawyer
1931 Caught
1931 Newly Rich
1931 Once a Lady
1931 The Vice Squad
1931 Unfaithful
1932 A Farewell to Arms
1932 Devil and the Deep
1933 A Bedtime Story
1933 Cradle Song
1933 Gambling Ship
1933 She Done Him Wrong
1933 The Way to Love
1934 Death Takes a Holiday
1934 She Loves Me Not
1934 We're Not Dressing
1935 Peter Ibbetson
1935 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
1936 Desire
1937 Angel
1937 Souls at Sea
1937 Tovarich
1938 Spawn of the North
1938 You and Me
1938 Zaza
1939 Midnight
1939 The Cat and the Canary
1939 The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1940 Adventure in Diamonds
1940 Arise, My Love
1940 Buck Benny Rides Again
1940 Dancing on a Dime
1940 The Ghost Breakers
1940 Women Without Names
1941 Nothing But the Truth
1941 Skylark
1941 Sundown
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills
1942 Are Husbands Necessary?
1942 The Lady Has Plans
1943 No Time for Love
1943 So Proudly We Hail
1943 True to Life
1944 Here Come the Waves
1944 I Love a Soldier
1944 The Uninvited
1945 The Stork Club
1946 Blue Skies
1946 Cross My Heart
1946 Miss Susie Slagle's
1947 Desert Fury
1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947 Where There's Life
1948 A Foreign Affair
1948 Miss Tatlock's Millions
1948 My Own True Love
1949 Rope of Sand
1949 The Great Lover
1950 Branded
1950 Copper Canyon
1950 Fancy Pants
1950 September Affair
1951 Ace in the Hole
1951 Peking Express
1951 Red Mountain
1951 The Mating Season
1952 Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
1952 Sudden Fear
1952 The Atomic City
1953 Salome
1953 The Big Heat
1954 It Should Happen to You
1954 Phffft
1954 Sabrina
1955 Female on the Beach
1955 Queen Bee
1955 The Long Gray Line
1955 The Man from Laramie
1956 Autumn Leaves
1956 The Rainmaker
1956 The Solid Gold Cadillac
1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
1957 Loving You
1957 Wild Is the Wind
1958 Separate Tables
1958 The Matchmaker
1959 Last Train from Gun Hill
1959 Some Like It Hot
1960 Strangers When We Meet
1960 The Facts of Life
1960 The Magnificent Seven
1961 Blue Hawaii
1961 One-Eyed Jacks
1961 Summer and Smoke
1962 A Girl Named Tamiko
1962 How the West Was Won
1963 Charade
1963 Critic's Choice
1963 The Wheeler Dealers
1964 Father Goose
1964 Paris When It Sizzles
1964 Sex and the Single Girl
1965 Inside Daisy Clover
1966 How to Steal a Million
1966 Not With My Wife, You Don't
1967 Hotel
1967 The Flim-Flam Man
1967 Wait Until Dark
1968 A Flea In Her Ear
1968 The Stalking Moon
1969 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1969 Cactus Flower
1969 How to Commit Marriage
1970 A Walk in the Spring Rain
1971 Doctors' Wives
1971 The Love Machine
1972 Butterflies Are Free
1973 40 Carats
Director of Photography:
1953 General Electric Theater
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