Name William Skall | Role Cinematographer | |
Died March 22, 1976, Los Angeles, California, United States Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Golden Globe Award for Best Cinematography - Color Movies Rope, Quo Vadis, Northwest Passage, The Little Princess, Reap the Wild Wind Similar People Robert Surtees, Winton Hoch, Joan Chandler, Arthur Charles Miller, Sonya Levien | ||
William V. Skall (October 5, 1897, Chicago – March 22, 1976, Los Angeles) was an American cinematographer who specialized in Technicolor.
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Life
He began his film career straight after leaving school and worked for two years in camera crews before becoming a chief cameraman for the first time in 1936, with 20th Century Fox. He worked on Quo Vadis (1951) and Rope (1948), the latter for Alfred Hitchcock, with longer scenes than usual in films of that time. He received nine Oscar nominations and won once, sharing Best Cinematography (color) with Joseph Valentine and Winton Hoch in 1949 for Joan of Arc.
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