Joseph MacDonald
Joseph MacDonald (born December 15, 1906 in Mexico City , † May 26, 1968 in Woodland Hills ; actually Joseph Patrick MacDonald ) was an American cameraman .
Life
MacDonald attended the University of Southern California at Los Angeles before moving into film during the 1920s. There he initially worked as an assistant, later as a camera assistant, until he became chief cameraman in the 1940s. Three times MacDonald was nominated for a Oscar nomination . In 1958 he received a nomination for The Young Lions , in 1960 for Pepe - What Can the World Cost and in 1966 for Gunboat on the Yangtze Kiang .
MacDonald, who was behind the camera until the end of his life, worked with director Henry Hathaway at Niagara , Password 777 , Enemy in the Dark and Fourteen Hours . MacDonald directed the camera for Edward Dmytryk on films such as The Broken Lance , Warlock , Alvarez Kelly and The 27th Floor . With Sam Fuller , MacDonald directed the crime film Police Intervene , the submarine thriller Inferno , both with Richard Widmark in the lead role, and the gangster film Tokyo Story . When Elia Kazan film Panic in the Streets , 1950 MacDonald led the camera, as in John Huston's The List of Adrian Messenger , 1963. The last camerawork MacDonald was the Western Mackenna's Gold . MacDonald had worked with the director of the film, J. Lee Thompson , on Taras Bulba in 1962 and Kings of the Sun in 1963.
Filmography (selection)
- 1935: Rosa de Francia
- 1941: Charlie Chan in Rio
- 1944: Laurel and Hardy - The Big Noise
- 1945: Shock
- 1945: The Daring Adventures of Captain Eddie (Captain Eddie)
- 1946: Law of the Prairie (My Darling Clementine)
- 1946: Enemy in the Dark (The Dark Corner)
- 1948: Password 777 (Call Northside 777)
- 1948: The Street with No Name
- 1949: Pinky
- 1950: Under secret orders (Panic in the Streets)
- 1951: As Young as You Feel
- 1951: Fourteen Hours (Fourteen Hours)
- 1952: Five Pearls (O. Henry's Full House)
- 1952: Niagara (Niagara)
- 1952: Viva Zapata! (Viva Zapata!)
- 1953: Police intervene (Pickup on South Street)
- 1953: The sinking of the Titanic (Titanic)
- 1953: How do you get a millionaire? (How to Marry a Millionaire)
- 1954: The Broken Lance
- 1954: Inferno (Hell and High Water)
- 1955: Tokyo-Story (House of Bamboo)
- 1956: A Fistful of Hope (Bigger Than Life)
- 1957: Poisonous Snow (A Hatful of Rain)
- 1957: Siren in blond (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?)
- 1957: Avengers of the Disinherited (The True Story of Jesse James)
- 1958: The Young Lions (The Young Lions)
- 1958: A Man in His Prime (Ten North Frederick)
- 1959: Warlock
- 1960: Pepe - What can the world cost (Pepe)
- 1962: On glowing patches (Walk on the Wild Side)
- 1962: Taras Bulba
- 1963: The List of Adrian Messenger (The List of Adrian Messenger)
- 1963: Kings of the Sun (Kings of the Sun)
- 1964: Meeting point for two pistols (Invitation to a Gunfighter)
- 1964: The Insatiable (The Carpet Baggers)
- 1964: Where the love leads (Where Love Has Gone)
- 1965: The 27th floor (Mirage)
- 1965: New York Express ( Blindfold )
- 1966: Alvarez Kelly
- 1966: Gunboat on the Yangtze River (The Sand Pebbles)
- 1967: Guide to infidelities (A Guide for the Married Man)
- 1969: Mackenna's Gold (MacKenna's Gold)
Web links
- Joseph MacDonald in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | MacDonald, Joseph |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | MacDonald, Joe; MacDonald, Joseph P. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1906 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mexico city |
DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1968 |
Place of death | Woodland Hills |