Occupation Cinematographer Title A.S.C. | Name Lee Garmes Role Cinematographer | |
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Full Name Lee Dewey Garmes Born May 27, 1898 ( 1898-05-27 ) Peoria, Illinois Board member of A.S.C. President (1960-1961) Died August 31, 1978, Los Angeles, California, United States Spouse Ruth Hall (m. 1933–1978), Hazel Garmes (m. ?–1931) Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White Nominations Academy Award for Best Cinematography Movies Shanghai Express, Gone with the Wind, Scarface, Duel in the Sun, Angels Over Broadway Similar People Ernest Haller, Ben Hecht, Ray Rennahan, Jules Furthman, Josef von Sternberg | ||
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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.
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- Frankly my dear i don t give a damn gone with the wind 6 6 movie clip 1939 hd
- Biography and career
- Accolades
- Filmography
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Biography and career
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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