William V. Skall
William V. Skall (born October 5, 1897 in Chicago , Illinois , † March 22, 1976 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American cameraman .
Life
William V. Skall began working in film immediately after graduating from high school. He worked for two decades as a member of the camera crew before taking on responsibility for the first time as chief cameraman at 20th Century Fox in 1936 . Skall was considered a specialist in Technicolor films. His collaboration with Cocktail for a corpse , directed by Alfred Hitchcock , had greater artistic significance than photography for large-scale productions such as Quo Vadis . The film managed with very few cuts, the individual scenes were as long as the film roles customary at the time allowed. Skall was nominated several times for the Oscar for best camera and won it in 1949 for The Maid of Orleans .
From the mid-1950s he was mainly involved in television series, his last work as a cameraman dates back to 1961.
Filmography (selection)
- 1935: The Little Colonel
- 1936: Dancing pirate (Dancing Pirate)
- 1937: Queen Victoria ( Victoria the Great )
- 1937: Penny Wisdom (short film)
- 1938: Sixty Glorious Years
- 1939: The Little Princess ( The Little Princess )
- 1939: The Mikado
- 1940: Northwest Passage ( Northwest Passage )
- 1940: Revenge for Jesse James ( The Return of Frank James )
- 1941: The Last Bandit ( Billy the Kid )
- 1942: To the Shores of Tripoli
- 1942: Pirates in the Caribbean Sea ( Reap the Wild Wind )
- 1942 Arabian Nights ( Arabian Nights )
- 1946: Heaven full of violins ( The Time, the Place and the Girl )
- 1946: I think of you day and night ( Night and Day )
- 1947: Life with Father ( Life with Father )
- 1947: Song of the Orient ( Song of Shehezerade )
- 1947: My Wild Irish Rose
- 1948: Cocktail for a corpse ( Rope )
- 1948: Johanna von Orleans ( Joan of Arc )
- 1950: Kim - Secret Service in India ( Rudyard Kipling's Kim )
- 1951: Quo vadis? ( Quo Vadis )
- 1951: Two clean up ( Cripple Creek )
- 1952: Lady Rotkopf ( The Golden Hawk )
- 1954: The Silver Chalice (The Silver Chalice)
- 1955: Man in Space (episode 20 of the Disneyland series )
- 1957: Commit your ways you ( All Mine to Give )
Web links
- William V. Skall in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 350.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Skall, William V. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1976 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |