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Ray Binger is a Director of Photography, Visual Effects and Cinematography American born on 16 november 1888

Ray Binger

Ray Binger
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Nationality USA
Birth 16 november 1888
Death 29 september 1970 (at 81 years) at Orange County (USA)

Ray Binger (16 November 1888 – 29 September 1970) was an American cinematographer. He started working in Hollywood in 1924, mastering the art of process photography. By 1934 he had gravitated towards special effects work. He was one of the many technicians involved in bringing authenticity to The Hurricane in 1937, and was instrumental in the plane crash sequence in Alfred Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent in 1940. Not all his assignments were quite that showy, however. He received an Oscar nomination in the category Best Special Effects for generating fake crowds to fill up the baseball stands in 1942's The Pride of the Yankees. He was nominated twice more in the same category for The Long Voyage Home (1940) and The North Star (1943).

Best films

Red River (1948)
(Additional Director of Photography)
Dodsworth (1936)
(Special Effects)
Stagecoach (1939)
(Special Effects)
The Hurricane (1937)
(Special Effects)
The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
(Special Effects)

Usually with

Rudolph Maté
Rudolph Maté
(3 films)
Julia Heron
Julia Heron
(5 films)
Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ray Binger (12 films)

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Cameraman

Red River
Red River (1948)
, 2h6
Directed by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray, John Ireland
Roles Additional Director of Photography
Rating77% 3.8967253.8967253.8967253.8967253.896725
Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) is a stubborn man who wants nothing more than to start up a successful cattle ranch in Texas. Shortly after he begins his journey to Texas with his trail hand, Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), Dunson learns that his love interest (Coleen Gray), whom he had told to stay behind with the wagon train with the understanding that he would send for her later, was killed in an Indian attack. Despite this tragedy, Dunson and Groot press on. That night, Dunson and Groot, keeping watch, hear a group of Indians planning to attack them. They kill the Indians, and on the wrist of one, Dunson finds a bracelet he had been left by his late mother. One day before, he had presented it to his young love as he left the wagon train. The bracelet reappears significantly later in the film.
Private Lives, 1h24
Directed by Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny, Una Merkel, Jean Hersholt, George Davis
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.344723.344723.344723.344723.34472
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, divorced after a tempestuous marriage, are dismayed to discover they both have opted to honeymoon with their new spouses at the same hotel on the French Riviera. Elyot finds his bride Sybil's questions about Amanda annoying, while Amanda wishes her new husband Victor would stop referring to Elyot every chance he gets. When Elyot discovers Amanda on the terrace their adjoining suites share, he insists he and Sybil immediately depart for Paris, the same plan Amanda proposes to Victor. The two ex-spouses quarrel with their new mates, both of whom set off in search of peace and quiet.

Visual effects

Up in Arms
Up in Arms (1944)
, 1h46
Directed by Elliott Nugent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore, Dana Andrews, Knox Manning, Constance Dowling, Dorothy Patrick
Roles Visual Effects
Rating61% 3.098763.098763.098763.098763.09876
Film musical, relatant les péripéties vécues par un garçon d'ascenseur un tantinet hypocondriaque, réussissant à obtenir un poste dans un hôpital espérant des consultations médicales plus faciles de cette façon et qui sympathise avec de charmantes infirmières. Las, la guerre avec les japonais le rattrape et il se retrouve propulsé dans le pacifique où il finit plus ou moins héroïquement, à la mode hollywoodienne de l'époque.

Team

Along Came Jones, 1h30
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, Dan Duryea, William Demarest, Lane Chandler, Frank Sully
Roles Special Effects
Rating64% 3.2449053.2449053.2449053.2449053.244905
Easygoing Melody Jones (Gary Cooper) and his friend George Fury (William Demarest) wander into a town. Jones is mistaken for a wanted bandit named Monte Jarrad (Dan Duryea), which causes him no end of trouble. Meanwhile, the real Jarrad is hiding out in the home of his girl, Cherry de Longpre (Loretta Young). At first, she tries to use the newcomer to distract the townsfolk, but as she gets to know Jones, her feelings start to change.
They Got Me Covered, 1h35
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Spy films, Films about journalists
Actors Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Otto Preminger, Lenore Aubert, Eduardo Ciannelli, Donald Meek
Roles Special Effects
Rating64% 3.2441153.2441153.2441153.2441153.244115
In the middle of WWII, acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter Robert "Kit" Kittredge returns to the U.S. from his position as Moscow correspondent. He is fired for his incompetency by his editor, Norman Mason, the minute he comes back, since he has neglected to report that Germany recently has invaded Russia.
Stagecoach
Stagecoach (1939)
, 1h37
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Claire Trevor, John Carradine, Thomas Mitchell, Andy Devine, Donald Meek
Roles Special Effects
Rating77% 3.8977553.8977553.8977553.8977553.897755
In 1880, a motley group of strangers boards the east-bound stagecoach from Tonto, Arizona Territory to Lordsburg, New Mexico Territory. These travelers are unremarkable and ordinary at first glance. Among them are Dallas (Claire Trevor), a prostitute who is being driven out of town by the members of the "Law and Order League"; an alcoholic doctor, Doc Boone (Thomas Mitchell); pregnant Lucy Mallory (Louise Platt), who is traveling to see her cavalry officer husband; and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock (Donald Meek).
Eternally Yours, 1h35
Directed by Tay Garnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians
Actors Loretta Young, David Niven, Hugh Herbert, Raymond Walburn, Billie Burke, C. Aubrey Smith
Roles Special Effects
Rating57% 2.8528452.8528452.8528452.8528452.852845
Anita Halstead (Loretta Young) goes to see a magic act performed by Tony (David Niven), the "Great Arturo", after her bridal shower for her wedding to Don Burns (Broderick Crawford). Anita and Tony are immediately attracted to each other and get married. She becomes his assistant in the act.
The Real Glory, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Stuart Heisler, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Actors Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds, Reginald Owen, Broderick Crawford, Kay Johnson
Roles Special Effects
Rating64% 3.245863.245863.245863.245863.24586
In 1906, Alipang (Tetsu Komai) and his Muslim Moro guerrillas are terrorizing the people of the Philippine island of Mindanao, raiding villages, killing the men, and carrying off the women and children for slaves. Instead of maintaining garrisons indefinitely to protect the Filipinos, the U.S. army tests out a new tactic at Fort Mysang. The army detachment is replaced by a handful of officers – Colonel Hatch (Roy Gordon), Captains Manning (Russell Hicks) and Hartley (Reginald Owen), and Lieutenants McCool (David Niven) and Larsen (Broderick Crawford) - who are to train the native Philippine Constabulary to take over the burden. Army doctor Lieutenant Canavan (Gary Cooper) is sent along to keep them healthy. They are welcomed by a skeptical Padre Rafael (Charles Waldron).
The Cowboy and the Lady, 1h31
Directed by William Wyler, H. C. Potter, Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Merle Oberon, Walter Brennan, Harry Davenport, Fuzzy Knight, Patsy Kelly
Roles Special Effects
Rating64% 3.2463753.2463753.2463753.2463753.246375
Mary Smith (Merle Oberon), daughter of presidential hopeful Horace Smith (Henry Kolker), has lived a cloistered life free of any scandal. Although she is devoted to her father and supports his political aspirations, she longs for a life of her own. Believing she needs some excitement in her life, Mary's free-spirited Uncle Hannibal (Harry Davenport) takes her dancing at a nightclub, which the police raid for gambling. When Horace learns that press reporters have discovered Mary's name on the police report, he sends his daughter off to the family's Palm Beach, Florida mansion.
The Hurricane, 1h50
Directed by John Ford, Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Météorologie, Prison films, Transport films, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Mary Astor, C. Aubrey Smith, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Massey
Roles Special Effects
Rating70% 3.5448953.5448953.5448953.5448953.544895
As a passenger ship sails by the bleak ruins of a deserted island, Dr. Kersaint (Thomas Mitchell) blows his former home a kiss. When a fellow passenger asks him about the place, he tells its tragic story, segueing into a flashback.
Dodsworth
Dodsworth (1936)
, 1h41
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor, David Niven, Gregory Gaye
Roles Special Effects
Rating76% 3.8452453.8452453.8452453.8452453.845245
Samuel "Sam" Dodsworth (Walter Huston) is the successful, self-made and unsophisticated head of Dodsworth Motor Company, an American automobile parts manufacturing firm, based in the small Midwestern town of Zenith (also the setting for Lewis' Babbitt). His wife Fran (Ruth Chatterton), feeling trapped by the boring social life of their small-town existence, convinces her spouse to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. Sam disregards the warning of Tubby Pearson, his banker and friend, that men like them are only happy when they are working.
Kid Millions, 1h30
Directed by Roy Del Ruth, Willy Pogány
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, George Murphy, Berton Churchill, Warren Hymer
Roles Special Effects
Rating66% 3.342543.342543.342543.342543.34254
In New York City, 1934, we meet jazz singer, Dot Clark, and her shady gangster boyfriend, Louie The Lug ("An Earful of Music"). After having an affair with the deceased Professor Edward Wilson, Dot is now technically his common-law wife and heiress to 77 million dollars. She has to go to Egypt to claim the money, and sets off with Louie in hopes of getting the cash. Former assistant to Edward Wilson, Gerald Lane, informs the law offices of Benton, Loring, and Slade of Professor Wilson's death and the fact that Edward's son, Eddie Wilson Jr is the rightful heir to the money. Mr. Slade, the lawyer, goes to a barge in Brooklyn where Eddie is living with his adopted father, Pops, an old stevedore, and his three sons, Oscar, Adolph, and Herman, who roughhouse Eddie. However, Eddie is managing to live a nice life nonetheless, with his girlfriend, Nora 'Toots', and his care for all the kids on the barge. He dreams of the day when he will have enough money to live his own life outside of the dirty barge ("When My Ship Comes In"). Moments later, Eddie is informed that he has inherited the 77 million dollars and boards a ship bound for Egypt to claim the money. Aboard the ship, we meet Colonel Henry Larrabee, a gentleman from Virginia who sponsored Eddie Sr's exploration endeavors and wants a share of the money as well. Eddie befriends his beautiful niece, Joan, and Dot and Louie realize that they are not the only ones traveling to Egypt. In an elaborate scheme to trick Eddie into signing over the inheritance, Dot disguises herself as Eddie's mother and almost succeeds in duping him but Louie ruins the plan at the last minute. Meanwhile, Gerald Lane has boarded the ship and we see that he is in love with Joan Larrabee.
Private Lives, 1h24
Directed by Sidney Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Reginald Denny, Una Merkel, Jean Hersholt, George Davis
Roles Cinematography
Rating66% 3.344723.344723.344723.344723.34472
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, divorced after a tempestuous marriage, are dismayed to discover they both have opted to honeymoon with their new spouses at the same hotel on the French Riviera. Elyot finds his bride Sybil's questions about Amanda annoying, while Amanda wishes her new husband Victor would stop referring to Elyot every chance he gets. When Elyot discovers Amanda on the terrace their adjoining suites share, he insists he and Sybil immediately depart for Paris, the same plan Amanda proposes to Victor. The two ex-spouses quarrel with their new mates, both of whom set off in search of peace and quiet.