Philip H. Lathrop

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Philip H. Lathrop (born October 22, 1912 in Merced , California , † April 12, 1995 in Studio City , North Hollywood , Los Angeles ) was an American cameraman.

Life

Lathrop had worked at Universal Studios in Hollywood since 1934 , where he went through the traditional stages of a career as a cameraman: from 1938 he was second camera assistant ( clapper loader ), among others for cameraman Joseph Valentine ; later 1st camera assistant ( focus puller ) and since 1948 camera operator . As a camera operator he worked for Russell Metty for 9 years ; This collaboration resulted in both Technicolor productions with unusually complex color schemes such as Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955) and black and white films such as Orson Welles ' innovative camera technology, Touch of Evil (shot 1957).

From 1957 Lathrop was Director of Photography . He became the regular cameraman of director Blake Edwards and shot with him such successful films as Days of Wine and Roses (1962) and The Pink Panther (1963). In addition to working with Edwards, he was involved in other style-defining works of the 1960s: He was nominated for an Oscar in 1965 for Arthur Hiller's The Americanization of Emily , followed by classics such as Norman Jewison's The Cincinnati Kid (1965) and John Boorman's Point Blank (1967 ) and Sydney Pollacks They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969).

In the 1970s, Lathrop was used primarily in commercial large-scale productions, including Mark Robson's Earthquake (1974), for which Lathrop received his second Oscar nomination. But there were also more interesting works such as Sam Peckinpah's The Killer Elite (1975) and Walter Hills The Driver (1978). Of his few feature films in the 1980s , the camera work on Wim Wenders ' Hammett (1982), which he carried out together with Joseph Biroc , received critical acclaim.

He was twice that for his television work of the late 1980 Emmy and two-time ASC Award excellent. In 1992, now in retirement, he also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from ASC.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Obituary in: American Cinematographer. June 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ During his lifetime he gave his year of birth as 1916; this information can also be found in: Ephraim Katz: The Film Encyclopedia .
  2. ↑ See Mary Beth Haralovich: “All That Heaven Allows”: Color, Narrative Space, and Melodrama . In: Peter Lehman (Ed.): Close Viewings. An Anthology of New Film Criticism . Florida State University Press, Tallahassee 1990, ISBN 0-8130-0967-7 , pp. 57-72 ( GBS )
  3. ↑ For the elaborate tracking shot in the opening sequence of the film, Lathrop was posthumously honored with a prize from the Society of Camera Operators (SOC) in 1999.
  4. ↑ The cameraman of the 1980 film was Biroc; In 1981, Lathrop was responsible for the new recordings requested by the producer.

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personal data
SURNAME Lathrop, Philip H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Merced
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1995
Place of death Studio City