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Ray June is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 27 march 1895 at Ithaca (USA)

Ray June

Ray June
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Nationality USA
Birth 27 march 1895 at Ithaca (USA)
Death 26 may 1958 (at 63 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Ray June, A.S.C. (March 27, 1895 – May 26, 1958) was an American cinematographer during the early and classical Hollywood cinema. His best known films are Babes in Arms and Funny Face.

Biography

D'après l'IMDb, Ray June collabore à 165 films américains entre 1915 et 1958, année de sa mort. Le dernier est La Péniche du bonheur de Melville Shavelson, avec Cary Grant et Sophia Loren.

Dans l'intervalle, il assiste notamment les réalisateurs Busby Berkeley (ex. : En avant la musique en 1940, avec Mickey Rooney et Judy Garland), Robert Z. Leonard (ex. : Le Grand Ziegfeld en 1936, avec William Powell et Myrna Loy), Vincente Minnelli (ex. : Gigi en 1958, avec Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier et Louis Jourdan), ou encore Melvin Frank et Norman Panama (ex. : Le Bouffon du roi en 1955, avec Danny Kaye et Glynis Johns), entre autres.

Au long de sa carrière, il obtient trois nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie (voir rubrique ci-dessous), mais n'en gagne pas.

Best films

Gigi (1958)
(Director of Photography)
The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
(Director of Photography)
Strike Up the Band (1940)
(Director of Photography)
Arrowsmith (1931)
(Director of Photography)
Alibi (1929)
(Director of Photography)
When Ladies Meet (1933)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(55 films)
Adrian
Adrian
(15 films)
Norman Panama
Norman Panama
(6 films)
Melvin Frank
Melvin Frank
(6 films)
Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman
(11 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ray June (112 films)

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Cameraman

Houseboat
Houseboat (1958)
, 1h50
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert, Harry Guardino
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.297873.297873.297873.297873.29787
For several years, Tom Winters (Grant) has been estranged from his wife and their three children, David (Petersen), Elizabeth (Gibson), and Robert (Herbert). The film begins as he returns home from Europe shortly after his wife's death. The children want to stay in the country with their mother's wealthy family, including her parents and her sister Carolyn (Hyer), but Tom takes them to Washington, D.C., where he works in the US State Department.
Gigi
Gigi (1958)
, 1h59
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Noël Howard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold, Isabel Jeans, Jacques Bergerac
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2973553.2973553.2973553.2973553.297355
Set in turn-of-the-20th century Paris, the film opens with Honoré Lachaille (Maurice Chevalier) among high society in the Bois de Boulogne. A charming old roué, he cynically remarks that "Like everywhere else, most people in Paris get married, but not all. There are some who will not marry, and some who do not marry. But in Paris, those who will not marry are usually men, and those who do not marry are usually women." So marriage is not the only option for wealthy young bon vivants like his nephew Gaston (Louis Jourdan), who is bored with life. The one thing Gaston truly enjoys is spending time with Madame Alvarez (Hermione Gingold), whom he calls Mamita, and especially her granddaughter, the precocious, carefree Gilberte, aka Gigi who is 15 (Leslie Caron). Following the family tradition, Madame Alvarez sends Gigi to her sister, Great Aunt Alicia (Isabel Jeans), to be groomed as a courtesan and learn etiquette and charm. To Alicia, love is an art, and a necessary accomplishment for Gigi's social and economic future. But Gigi, shows disdain for such trivial love that a man and his mistress usually has. Remaining true to her girlish, yet charming personality, she finds herself having the most fun when with Gaston (35) whom she regards as an older brother.
Funny Face
Funny Face (1957)
, 1h43
Directed by Stanley Donen, Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes La mode, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng, Bess Flowers
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69% 3.499733.499733.499733.499733.49973
Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson) is a fashion magazine publisher and editor, for Quality magazine, who is looking for the next big fashion trend. She wants a new look for the magazine. Maggie wants the look to be both "beautiful" and "intellectual". She and famous fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) want models who can "think as well as they look." The two brainstorm and come up with the idea to find a "sinister-looking" book store in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan. They subsequently find a bookstore named "Embryo Concepts."
The Seventh Sin, 1h34
Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Ronald Neame
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks
Actors Eleanor Parker, Bill Travers, George Sanders, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Ellen Corby, James Hong
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1902053.1902053.1902053.1902053.190205
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol (Eleanor Parker) has an affair with a married man, Paul (Jean Pierre Aumont). Her physician husband Walter (Bill Travers) discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a very public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citing respect for his wife.
Hot Blood
Hot Blood (1956)
, 1h25
Directed by Nicholas Ray
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, Joseph Calleia, Nina Koshetz, Helen Westcott
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.8533552.8533552.8533552.8533552.853355
Marco Torino (Luther Adler), king of the gypsies in southern California, is terminally ill. He wants his younger brother to succeed him, but Stephano (Cornel Wilde) is determined to become a dancer instead.
The Court Jester, 1h41
Directed by Norman Panama, Bernard McEveety, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick
Roles Director of Photography
Rating77% 3.8957253.8957253.8957253.8957253.895725
Set in medieval England, the plot concerns the struggle to restore to the throne the rightful heir, a baby with a distinguishing birthmark, the purple pimpernel on his posterior. Danny Kaye plays Hubert Hawkins, an ex-carnival entertainer who becomes minstrel to the Black Fox, a Robin Hood-type character who leads a band of rebels in the forest in support of the true infant-king.
This Is My Love, 1h31
Directed by Stuart Heisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Linda Darnell, Rick Jason, Dan Duryea, Faith Domergue, Connie Russell, Jerry Mathers
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.2346553.2346553.2346553.2346553.234655
Vida Dove lives with younger sister Evelyn and brother-in-law Murray Myer, working in a diner he owns. A former beau of hers, Murray fell in love with her sister, married her, then became paralyzed from a car crash. He now suffers from frequent convulsions and is bitter and cruel to Vida, calling her a spinster and cajoling her to marry and move out.
Easy to Love, 1h36
Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films
Actors Esther Williams, Van Johnson, Tony Martin, Carroll Baker, John Bromfield, King Donovan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.098713.098713.098713.098713.09871
Ray Lloyd runs a successful Cypress Gardens water show, but star attraction Julie Hallerton is overworked and underpaid. She fibs about pretending to marry her aquatic partner Hank, but is persuaded by Ray to accompany him to New York instead.
Above and Beyond, 2h2
Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Larry Keating, Stephen Dunne, James Whitmore, Larry Gates
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68% 3.442243.442243.442243.442243.44224
Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor) is assigned to a dangerous mission in testing a new bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The perilous assignment has caused his wife Lucy (Eleanor Parker) to worry for his life and whether their marriage can survive the constant separations.
Sombrero
Sombrero (1953)
, 1h43
Directed by Norman Foster
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ricardo Montalbán, Pier Angeli, Vittorio Gassman, Yvonne De Carlo, Cyd Charisse, Nina Foch
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53% 2.657882.657882.657882.657882.65788
Three couples involved in budding romances are caught in the middle of a feud between two Mexico villages.
Code Two
Code Two (1953)

Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ralph Meeker, Elaine Stewart, Chuck Connors, Sally Forrest, Keenan Wynn, Robert Horton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0496753.0496753.0496753.0496753.049675
Classmates at the Los Angeles police academy, Chuck O'Fair, Russ Hartley and Harry Whenlon bond as friends. When they socialize at one's house, Russ and his wife, Mary, observe as the extroverted Chuck expresses an interest in Mary's sister, Jane, who seems to prefer the shy Harry instead.
A Slight Case of Larceny, 1h11
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Mickey Rooney, Eddie Bracken, Elaine Stewart, Douglas Fowley, Mimi Gibson, Marilyn Erskine
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.998622.998622.998622.998622.99862
Invitation
Invitation (1952)
, 1h24
Directed by Gottfried Reinhardt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Van Johnson, Dorothy McGuire, Ruth Roman, Louis Calhern, Ray Collins, Michael Chekhov
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.391863.391863.391863.391863.39186
Ellen Pierce (Dorothy McGuire) is very happily married to architect Dan (Van Johnson). However, due to a bout of rheumatic fever in her childhood, her heart is weak and she cannot exert herself too much; how frail she is, she does not really know. Her wealthy father (Louis Calhern) and the family doctor (Ray Collins) have kept from her the fact that she probably only has a few more months to live.
Just This Once
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Janet Leigh, Peter Lawford, Lewis Stone, Douglas Fowley, Richard Anderson, Phyllis Kirk
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.143473.143473.143473.143473.14347
Mark MacLene IV is a millionaire playboy. He is totally irresponsible with his money, piling up $5 million in debts. Judge Coulter, executor of his estate, puts Mark's finances in the hands of a penny-pinching lawyer, Lucy Duncan.