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Harry Stradling Sr. is a Director of Photography, Editor and Cinematography American born on 1 september 1901 at Newark (USA)

Harry Stradling Sr.

Harry Stradling Sr.
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Nationality USA
Birth 1 september 1901 at Newark (USA)
Death 14 february 1970 (at 68 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Harry Stradling, Sr., A.S.C. (September 1, 1901 - February 14, 1970) was an American cinematographer with over 130 films to his credit.

His uncle Walter Stradling and son Harry Stradling, Jr. were also cinematographers.

Biography

Harry Stradling Sr. étudie auprès de son oncle Walter Stradling (1875-1918, chef-opérateur de près de trente films muets américains de 1914 à 1918), puis débute lui-même comme directeur de la photographie en 1920, à l'occasion d'un film muet de Kenneth S. Webb — qu'il retrouvera plusieurs fois dans les années 1920 —. En 1930, alors qu'il est sous-employé à Hollywood sur des courts métrages principalement, il vient travailler en France et, de 1931 à 1933, photographie des films produits par la Paramount Pictures, tournés le plus souvent aux Studios Paramount à Joinville-le-Pont et en français, mais également en d'autres langues (ainsi, deux films en espagnol avec Carlos Gardel, sortis en 1933). Puis, en 1934 et 1935, il collabore à plusieurs films français ou coproductions, notamment deux réalisés par Jacques Feyder (dont La Kermesse héroïque en 1935, coproduction franco-allemande).

Après deux films autrichiens en 1936, Harry Stradling Sr. part au Royaume-Uni et, de 1937 à 1939, contribue à des films britanniques, certains de la London Film Productions. Mentionnons Le Chevalier sans armure en 1937 (où il retrouve Feyder), Pygmalion en 1938, et La Taverne de la Jamaïque d'Alfred Hitchcock en 1939. Cette année-là, avec le début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il retourne alors définitivement aux États-Unis où, désormais reconnu comme un chef-opérateur de talent, il travaille au sein de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, de la Warner Bros. et de la RKO Pictures, entre autres. Il s'illustre en particulier dans des films musicaux, comme Le Pirate (1948, avec Judy Garland et Gene Kelly), My Fair Lady (1964, avec Audrey Hepburn et Rex Harrison), ou Hello, Dolly! (1969, avec Barbra Streisand et Walter Matthau), mais aussi en d'autres genres, tels le drame (ex. : Un tramway nommé Désir en 1951), le film noir (ex. : Un si doux visage en 1952) ou le western (ex. : Johnny Guitare en 1954). Notons qu'en 1941, il est à nouveau aux côtés d'Hitchcock, pour Joies matrimoniales et Soupçons. Parmi les autres réalisateurs avec lesquels il collabore à Hollywood, citons Elia Kazan, Mervyn LeRoy, Vincente Minnelli, ou encore George Sidney.

Au long de sa carrière, riche de près de cent-cinquante films (il meurt en cours de production du dernier, en 1970), Harry Stradling Sr. reçoit quatorze nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie (entre 1944 et 1970), dont deux gagnés — voir la rubrique "Récompenses" ci-dessous —.

Il est quelquefois confondu avec son fils, Harry Stradling Jr. (né en 1925), également directeur de la photographie, et parfois lui aussi crédité 'Harry Stradling'.

Best films

My Fair Lady (1964)
(Director of Photography)
Funny Girl (1968)
(Director of Photography)
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
(Director of Photography)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
(Director of Photography)
Bathing Beauty (1944)
(Director of Photography)
Guys and Dolls (1955)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Harry Stradling Sr. (103 films)

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Cameraman

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, 2h9
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland, Bob Newhart, Jack Nicholson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.2003253.2003253.2003253.2003253.200325
At the behest of her ultra-conservative fiancé Warren, scatterbrained five-pack-a-day chain smoker and clairvoyant Daisy Gamble attends a class taught by psychiatrist Marc Chabot for help in kicking her habit. While undergoing hypnosis, it is discovered she is the reincarnation of Lady Melinda Winifred Waine Tentrees, a seductive 18th century coquette who was born the illegitimate daughter of a kitchen maid. She acquired the paternity records of the children housed in the orphanage where her mother worked and used the information to blackmail their wealthy fathers. She eventually married nobleman Robert Tentrees during the period of the English Regency, then was tried for espionage and treason after he abandoned her.
The Owl and the Pussycat, 1h35
Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Barbra Streisand, George Segal, Robert Klein, Marilyn Chambers, Allen Garfield, Roz Kelly
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.198833.198833.198833.198833.19883
Felix est un écrivain raté qui habite un modeste hôtel meublé. Un soir en rentrant il apprend par courrier que son dernier roman est refusé, son logeur lui fait part des récriminations de sa voisine de palier qui entend le crépitement de sa machine à écrire toute la nuit. Doris, sa voisine, travaille dans le milieu du sexe, elle a tourné dans un film X, fait la gogo danseuse, et se prostitue. Felix qui ignore ses activités l'aperçoit dans une tenue équivoque par sa fenêtre, prend ses jumelles, et se rend compte que de l'argent est échangé. Il la dénonce auprès du logeur qui la flanque de suite à la porte. Doris ne s'en laisse pas compter et parvient à pénétrer et à s'incruster chez Felix en exigeant qu'il l'héberge pour la nuit. Le ton finira par monter et une violente dispute attirera tout le voisinage. Le logeur intervient et met Felix à la porte. Felix et Doris réussissent à se faire héberger chez un ami. S'ensuivra un jeu de chat et de la souris entre eux deux, leurs univers très différents ne cesseront de s'opposer parfois très violemment, mais ils finiront par se rapprocher l'un de l'autre. À la fin, ils décident de faire comme s'ils venaient seulement de se rencontrer et partent ensemble.
Hello, Dolly!, 2h22
Directed by Gene Kelly, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Edra Jean Peaker, Michael Crawford, Marianne McAndrew, J. Pat O'Malley
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69% 3.499483.499483.499483.499483.49948
In 1890, all of New York City is excited because widowed, brassy Dolly Levi is in town ("Call On Dolly"). Dolly makes a living through matchmaking and numerous sidelines ("Just Leave Everything to Me"). She is currently seeking a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder, the well-known "half-a-millionaire", but it becomes clear that Dolly intends to marry Horace herself. Dolly travels to Yonkers, New York to visit Horace. Ambrose Kemper, a young artist, wants to marry Horace's weepy niece, Ermengarde, but Horace opposes this because Ambrose's vocation does not guarantee a steady living. Horace, who is the owner of Vandergelder's Hay and Feed, explains to his two clerks, Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker, that he is going to get married because "It Takes a Woman" to cheerfully do all the household chores. He plans to travel to New York City to propose to Irene Molloy, who owns a hat shop there. Dolly arrives in Yonkers and sends Horace ahead to the city. Before leaving he tells Cornelius and Barnaby to mind the store.
Funny Girl
Funny Girl (1968)
, 2h31
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon, Mae Questel
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73% 3.6980353.6980353.6980353.6980353.698035
Set in and around New York City just prior to and following World War I, the story opens with Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) awaiting the return of husband Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif) from prison, and then moves into an extended flashback focusing on their meeting and marriage.
Penelope
Penelope (1966)
, 1h37
Directed by Arthur Hiller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Natalie Wood, Ian Bannen, Peter Falk, Carl Ballantine, Jerome Cowan, Jonathan Winters
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.097843.097843.097843.097843.09784
Penelope Elcott (Natalie Wood) is the wife of wealthy banker James Elcott (Ian Bannen). Penelope decides to disguise herself as an old woman and rob her husband's bank. While the police, including Lieutenant Horatio Bixbee (Peter Falk), rush to get to the bank, Penelope escapes in a red wig and yellow suit. She donates some of the stolen money to a Salvation Army worker and donates the suit to a second-hand thrift shop. Con artists Sabada (Lila Kedrova) and Ducky (Lou Jacobi) immediately recognize the suit as an original designer outfit from Paris, and purchase it for a mere $7.
Moment to Moment, 1h43
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Jean Seberg, Honor Blackman, Arthur Hill, Sean Garrison, Donald Woods, Georgette Anys
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1852253.1852253.1852253.1852253.185225
Kay Stanton (Jean Seberg) lives on the French Riviera with her psychiatrist husband Neil Stanton (Arthur Hill) and son Tommy (Peter Robbins). One day while Neil is away, Kay meets an American naval ensign, Mark (Sean Garrison), and they begin an affair. Kay realises she does love her husband and tries to break off the relationship. She and Mark argue, and Kay accidentally shoots him. With the help of her friend Daphne (Honor Blackman), she dumps his body into a ravine, then calls the police anonymously to tell them of its location.
Walk Don't Run, 1h49
Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Films about the Olympic Games
Actors Cary Grant, Samantha Eggar, Jim Hutton, George Takei, John Standing, Miiko Taka
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.297083.297083.297083.297083.29708
Sir William Rutland (Cary Grant) is an important English businessman who arrives in the city two days early and is greeted by the housing shortage caused by the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. While at the British Embassy seeking help, he notices an announcement of an available apartment and decides to check the place out. He finds himself at the residence of Christine Easton (Samantha Eggar), who insists that it would be improper to take him in as a housemate. She forgot to advertise that she would prefer to rent to a woman. Easton eventually lets Rutland stay—half because she is persuaded it is her patriotic duty to take him in and half because of Rutland’s own self-assured pushiness.
How to Murder Your Wife, 1h58
Directed by Richard Quiney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes La bande dessinée
Actors Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Claire Trevor, Eddie Mayehoff, Sidney Blackmer
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.2479853.2479853.2479853.2479853.247985
Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon) is a successful, happily unmarried cartoonist enjoying the comforts of a well-to-do existence in an urban townhouse, including the services of his loyal and attentive valet, Charles Firbank (Terry-Thomas). Stanley's comic strip, Bash Brannigan, is a secret-agent thriller characterized by a high level of realism: no matter how outrageous the plot may seem, Stanley will not allow Brannigan to do anything physically impossible or use gadgets that don't exist. He hires actors and sets up elaborate enactments of storylines, playing Brannigan himself, while Charles takes photographs Stanley will use as models.
My Fair Lady, 2h46
Directed by George Cukor, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Marni Nixon, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper
Roles Director of Photography
Rating76% 3.8486253.8486253.8486253.8486253.848625
In Edwardian London, Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), a scholar of phonetics, believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. In Covent Garden one evening he boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering (Wilfrid Hyde-White), himself an expert in phonetics, that he could teach any person to speak in a way that he could pass them off as a duke or duchess at an embassy ball. Higgins selects as an example a young flower seller, Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn), who has a strong Cockney accent. Eliza's ambition is to work in a flower shop, but her thick accent makes her unsuitable. Having come from India to meet Higgins, Pickering is invited to stay with the professor. The following morning, Eliza shows up at Higgins' home, seeking lessons. Pickering is intrigued and offers to cover all expenses if the experiment should be successful.
Mary, Mary
Mary, Mary (1963)
, 2h6
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Diane McBain, Barry Nelson, Michael Rennie, Hiram Sherman, Lester Dorr
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.9514252.9514252.9514252.9514252.951425
When the Internal Revenue Service questions some of Bob McKellaway's deductions, Bob cannot remember what $5,000 worth of checks were for. Without his knowledge, his new tax lawyer, Oscar Nelson, asks Bob's ex-wife Mary to stop by to see if she can help. Bob does not want to see her, nor have his fiancee Tiffany Richards meet her.
Island of Love, 1h41
Directed by Morton DaCosta
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Preston, Tony Randall, Giorgia Moll, Walter Matthau, Michael Constantine, Ollie Johnston
Roles Director of Photography
Rating50% 2.5242552.5242552.5242552.5242552.524255
Steve Blair, always on the lookout for a new money-making scheme, spots a stripper of his acquaintance, Cha Cha Miller, at a Greek restaurant in New York, then overhears her gangster boyfriend Tony Dallas say how somebody should make a wholesome movie about Adam and Eve.
Gypsy
Gypsy (1962)
, 2h23
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Striptease
Actors Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Parley Baer, Morgan Brittany, Jack Benny
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.545373.545373.545373.545373.54537
Determined to make her young, blonde, and beautiful daughter June a vaudeville headliner, willful, resourceful, domineering stage mother Rose Hovick will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. She drags the girl and her shy, awkward, and decidedly less-talented older sister Louise around the country in an effort to get them noticed, and with the assistance of agent Herbie Sommers, she manages to secure them bookings on the prestigious Orpheum Circuit.
Five Finger Exercise, 1h49
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Rosalind Russell, Jack Hawkins, Richard Beymer, Maximilian Schell, Lana Wood, Todd Armstrong
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1901753.1901753.1901753.1901753.190175
It follows a few days in the lives of the Harringtons, who are at war. While the husband and wife fight each other, the son and daughter are on the same path. Then, when a music teacher comes in, things begin to change, until other things start to threaten the peace.
Parrish
Parrish (1961)
, 2h18
Directed by Delmer Daves
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens, Diane McBain
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.245413.245413.245413.245413.24541
The movie shows the story of conflict between a young independently minded man and his stepfather, a ruthless tobacco tycoon.