Burnett Guffey

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While still a teenager, the future Academy Award-winning lensman began as an assistant cameraman in 1923 on John Ford's 1924 western saga The Iron Horse. He was then hired by the Famous Players-Lasky Studios in 1927, became a camera operator in 1928 and worked there until 1943. Guffey was hired as a Director of Photography by Columbia Pictures in 1944. In 1957-58 he served as president of the American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.) for a year, and had been a long standing member. According to film critic Spencer Selby, Guffey was a prolific film noir cinematographer, shooting 20 of them, including In a Lonely Place (1950).

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1971
The Steagle
Movie Director of Photography
1970
The Great White Hope
Movie Director of Photography
1970
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Movie Director of Photography
1970
Halls of Anger
Movie Director of Photography
1969
My Father: Gordon Parks
Movie Self
1969
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Movie Director of Photography
1969
Some Kind of a Nut
Movie Director of Photography
1969
The Learning Tree
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1969
Where It's At
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1969
The Moviemakers
Movie Self
1968
The Split
Movie Director of Photography
1967
The Ambushers
Movie Director of Photography
1967
Bonnie and Clyde
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1967
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Movie Director of Photography
1966
The Silencers
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1965
King Rat
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