Vernon L. Walker

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Vernon L. "Vern" Walker (born May 2, 1894 in Detroit , Michigan ; † March 1, 1948 on Balboa Island , Newport Beach , California ) was a four-time Oscar nominated American cameraman and special effects artist who worked on the classic films Citizen Kane and King Kong and the white woman participated.

Life

Walker began his career in the silent film era . His first film as a cameraman was made in 1920. By the end of the 1920s, he had made over 60 silent films at various film studios. With the advent of the talkie in the early 1930s, he took a job at RKO Pictures . He not only worked as one of the cameramen on the classic film King Kong and the White Woman , but also provided special camera effects. He then made only two films as a cameraman and from 1936 worked exclusively as a special effects artist.

The first feature film to which he contributed special effects was the horror film Graf Zaroff - Genie des Evil . Between 1933 and 1939 Walker worked on nine dance films with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire . In 1941 he worked with Alfred Hitchcock on his feature films Suspicion and Mr. and Mrs. Smith . In the same year he was responsible for special effects and rear projections in Orson Welles ' masterpiece Citizen Kane . Between 1941 and 1945 he was nominated four times for an Oscar, but never received the award. He stayed with RKO until his death at the age of 53.

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SURNAME Walker, Vernon L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walker, Vern
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1948
Place of death Balboa Island , Newport Beach , California