- Charles Lang
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Charles Lang, A.S.C. Born March 27, 1902
Bluff, Utah, USADied April 3, 1998 (aged 96)
Santa Monica, California, USAOther names Charles Bryant Lang Occupation Cinematographer Years active 1926 - 1973 Spouse Hylah (1925 - ?) Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California [1]) was an American cinematographer.
Early in his career he worked with the Akeley camera, a gyroscope-mounted "pancake" camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots.[1] Lang's first credits were as co-cinematographer on the silent films The Night Patrol (1926) and The Loves of Ricardo (1927).[1]
After completing Tom Sawyer for Paramount Pictures in 1930, he continued working at the studio for more than twenty years. The style of lighting he introduced in A Farewell to Arms became heavily identified with all of Paramount's films during the 1930s and 1940s,[1] though he occasionally worked for other studios, for instance on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947).
In 1951 he began the second phase of his career, this time as a free-lance cinematographer.[1] His credits include The Big Heat (1953), Sabrina (1954), Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957), The Matchmaker (1958), Some Like It Hot (1959), The Magnificent Seven (1960), How the West Was Won (1962), Charade (1963), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), and Butterflies Are Free (1972).
Lang received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1991, for a career which included at least 114 feature films.[1]
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Academy Awards
Lang won an Academy Award the second time he was nominated, early in his career; he received a total of 18 nominations, tying with Leon Shamroy for the most cinematography Oscars nominations ever.
Wins
- A Farewell to Arms (1932)[2]
Nominations
According to IMDb, Lang also received Oscar nominations for the following films:[3]
- The Right to Love (1930)
- Arise, My Love (1940)
- Sundown (1941)
- So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
- The Uninvited (1944)
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
- A Foreign Affair (1948)
- Sudden Fear (1952)
- Sabrina (1954)
- Queen Bee (1955)
- Separate Tables (1958)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- The Facts of Life (1960)
- One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
- How the West Was Won (1962)[4]
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
- Butterflies Are Free (1972)
Personal life
One of Lang's granddaughters is actress Katherine Kelly Lang, who is best known for her role as Brooke Logan Forrester on the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful.[5] His daughter is actress Judy Lang.
References and footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f In Memoriam from the American Society of Cinematographers website
- ^ Received award at the 6th Academy Awards in 1934
- ^ Charles Lang at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Nominated at the 36th Academy Awards in 1964
- ^ Katherine Kelly Lang's biography from the CBS website
External links
Academy Award for Best Cinematography (1928–1940) Charles Rosher and Karl Struss (1928) · Clyde De Vinna (1929) · Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van Der Veer (1930) · Floyd Crosby (1931) · Lee Garmes (1932) · Charles Lang (1933) · Victor Milner (1934) · Hal Mohr (1935) · Tony Gaudio (1936) · Karl Freund (1937) · Joseph Ruttenberg (1938) · Gregg Toland / Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan (1939) · George Barnes / George Perinal (1940)
Complete list · (1928–1940) · (1941–1960) · (1961–1980) · (1981–2000) · (2001–2020) Categories:- American cinematographers
- Best Cinematographer Academy Award winners
- 1901 births
- 1998 deaths
- People from Utah
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