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Lee Garmes
Peoria, Illinois, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978) was an American cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawk…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978) was an American cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophüls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry Hathaway, whom he had met as a young man when the two first came to Hollywood in the silent era. He also co-directed two films with legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht: Angels Over Broadway and Actor's and Sin. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Garmes first came to Hollywood in 1916. His first job was as an assistant in the paint department at Thomas H. Ince Studios, but he soon became a camera assistant before graduating to full-time cameraman. His earliest films were comedy shorts, and his career did not fully take off until the introduction of sound. Garmes was married to film actress Ruth Hall from 1933 until his death in 1978. He is interred in the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Garmes was one of the earliest proponents of video technology, which he advocated as early as 1972. That year, he had been hired by Technicolor to photograph the short film Why, which was intended to test whether video was a viable technology for shooting feature films. According to American Cinematographer magazine, "Although officially unaccredited, Lee Garmes photographed a considerable portion of Gone with the Wind. Many consider the famous railroad yard sequence among his finest cinematic efforts." Garmes was one of many Hollywood veterans from the silent era interviewed by Kevin Brownlow for the television series Hollywood (1980).
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1978
Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys
Movie Producer
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1973
Why?
Movie Cinematography
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1968
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Movie Director of Photography
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1966
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Movie Director of Photography
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1964
Lady in a Cage
Movie Director of Photography
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1962
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Movie Director of Photography
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1961
Misty
Movie Director of Photography
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1959
The Big Fisherman
Movie Director of Photography
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1959
Happy Anniversary
Movie Director of Photography
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1958
Never Love a Stranger
Movie Director of Photography
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1957
The Big Boodle
Movie Director of Photography
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1956
The Sharkfighters
Movie Director of Photography
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1956
D-Day the Sixth of June
Movie Director of Photography
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1956
The Bottom of the Bottle
Movie Director of Photography
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1955
Man with the Gun
Movie Director of Photography
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1955
The Desperate Hours
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1955
Land of the Pharaohs
Movie Director of Photography
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1955
Abdullah's Harem
Movie Cinematography
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1953
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Movie Director
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1952
Thunder in the East
Movie Director of Photography
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1952
The Lusty Men
Movie Director of Photography
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1952
Actors and Sin
Movie Co-Director
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1952
The Captive City
Movie Director of Photography
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1951
Detective Story
Movie Director of Photography
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1951
That's My Boy
Movie Director of Photography
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1951
Saturday's Hero
Movie Director of Photography
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1950
Our Very Own
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1950
The Furies
Movie Director of Photography
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1950
My Friend Irma Goes West
Movie Director of Photography
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1950
My Foolish Heart
Movie Director of Photography
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1949
Roseanna McCoy
Movie Director of Photography
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1949
The Fighting Kentuckian
Movie Director of Photography
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1949
Caught
Movie Director of Photography
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1947
The Paradine Case
Movie Director of Photography
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1947
Nightmare Alley
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1947
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Movie Director of Photography
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1946
Duel in the Sun
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1946
The Searching Wind
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1946
Specter of the Rose
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1946
Young Widow
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