Joseph MacDonald

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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.

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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