Archie Stout

Archibald "Archie" Stout (born March 30, 1886 in Renwick , Iowa , † March 10, 1973 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American cameraman .

biography

Before Stout started working in film, he worked in various professions, e.g. B. as manager of an inn, broker and gamekeeper. In 1914 he became a camera assistant in Mack Sennett's film studio and after a few years made it to a simple cameraman. During this time he took part in some higher-class productions such as Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments . From 1928 he was chief cameraman, mostly in second-rate western productions. That changed after photographing René Clair's It Happened Tomorrow and Douglas Sirk's summer storms .

In 1947 he was hired by John Ford , with whom he had already worked in the 1930s, for To the Last Man with John Wayne in the lead role. Both continued their collaboration after the film. There were also times when Stout photographed films with Wayne in the lead role that were not directed by Ford.

His biggest success was Ford's Der Sieger , for which he and Winton C. Hoch received the Oscar for best camera . To this day, Stout is the only cameraman who was nominated for and was able to win an Oscar as part of the second unit .

His last film was William A. Wellman's It's Always Day from 1954. A year later he suffered a heart attack and retired from the film business. In his more than 30 year career he has worked as a cameraman on over 130 films.

Filmography (selection)

• 1923: The Ten Commandments (The Ten Commandments)
• 1932: Self-Defense
• 1934: US Marshal John (The Star Packer)
• 1934: Rodeo (The Man from Utah)
• 1934: Showdown at the Adler Pass (Blue Steel)
• 1935: The Rodeo Heist (The Desert Trail)
• 1937: ... then came the hurricane (The Hurricane)
• 1938: The Adventures of Marco Polo (The Adventures of Marco Polo)
• 1938: The Chased Professor (Professor Beware)
• 1939: Lord of the seas (Rulers of the Sea)
• 1939: Three Foreign Legionnaires (Beau Geste)
• 1944: Summer storms (Summer Storm)
• 1944: It Happened Tomorrow (It Happened Tomorrow)
• 1945: Tarzan and the Amazons (Tarzan and the Amazons)
• 1945: Under the black flag (Captain Kidd)
• 1947: Tarzan and the Huntress
• 1947: The Black Rider (The Angel and the Badman)
• 1948: To the Last Man (Fort Apache)
• 1950: Rio Grande
• 1952: The winner (The Quiet Man)
• 1953: For Whom the sun is shining (The Sun Shines Bright)
• 1953: I'm called Hondo (Hondo)
• 1954: The High and the Mighty (The High and the Mighty)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 7: R - T. Robert Ryan - Lily Tomlin. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 525.

Web links

• Archie Stout in the Internet Movie Database (English)