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W. Howard Greene is a Actor, Other, Assistant Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 16 august 1895 at Rhode Island (USA)
William Howard Greene, A.S.C., est un directeur de la photographie américain, né le 16 août 1895 à River Point (Rhode Island), décédé le 28 février 1956 à Los Angeles (Californie).
Il est généralement crédité W. Howard Greene (parfois William H. Greene ou Howard Greene ou encore W.H. Greene).
En 1944, il gagne l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie (partagé) pour Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (sans compter six nominations par ailleurs). En outre, deux Oscars d'honneur lui sont remis en 1937 et 1938 — voir la rubrique "Nominations et récompenses" ci-dessous —.
(1942)
(Other)
(1941)
(Director of Photography)
(1951)
(Director of Photography)
(1940)
(Director of Photography)
(1943)
(Director of Photography)
(1942)
(Director of Photography)
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Birth name William Howard Greene
Nationality USA
Birth 16 august 1895 at Rhode Island (USA)
Death 28 february 1956 (at 60 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Nationality USA
Birth 16 august 1895 at Rhode Island (USA)
Death 28 february 1956 (at 60 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography
Il est généralement crédité W. Howard Greene (parfois William H. Greene ou Howard Greene ou encore W.H. Greene).
Biography
W. Howard Greene est reconnu comme un pionnier du cinéma dans le domaine de la photographie en couleur, selon le procédé Technicolor. Il débute en 1932 comme premier assistant opérateur, puis est cadreur sur Becky Sharp en 1935. À partir de cette année-là et jusqu'en 1956 (année de sa mort), comme chef opérateur, il contribue à une quarantaine de films américains (dont bon nombre en couleur, mais pas exclusivement), aux côtés des réalisateurs Michael Curtiz (ex. : La Vie privée d'Élisabeth d'Angleterre en 1939, avec Bette Davis et Errol Flynn), Arthur Lubin (ex. : Le Fantôme de l'Opéra en 1943, avec Claude Rains), ou encore William A. Wellman (ex. : Une étoile est née en 1937, avec Janet Gaynor et Fredric March), entre autres.En 1944, il gagne l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie (partagé) pour Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (sans compter six nominations par ailleurs). En outre, deux Oscars d'honneur lui sont remis en 1937 et 1938 — voir la rubrique "Nominations et récompenses" ci-dessous —.
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(1940)(Director of Photography)
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Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
, 1h35Directed by Arthur Crabtree
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Actors Michael Gough, Shirley Anne Field, Geoffrey Keen, Beatrice Varley, Austin Trevor, W. Howard Greene
Roles Tom Rivers
Rating58%
Frustrated thriller writer Edmond Bancroft (Michael Gough) owns a private "black museum" of torture instruments. He hypnotises his assistant Rick (Graham Curnow) to commit increasingly horrific crimes for Bancroft to write about.
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The Violent Men (1955)
, 1h36Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, Warner Anderson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68%
Parrish (Ford), a Union Army ex-officer, plans to sell his land to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancee, Caroline (May Wynn), but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner, Lew Wilkison (Robinson), and the outfit's bully-boy tactics make him think again. When one of Parrish's hands is murdered, he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience.
The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)
, 1h35Directed by F. Hugh Herbert, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Don Taylor, Leo Genn, Gene Barry, Elsa Lanchester, Philip Ober, Audrey Dalton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
In 1945, Roger Halyard is a stiff-upper-lipped British gentleman who lives on a South Pacific island with his three nubile, naive daughters, Violet, Hester and Gloria. Hoping to shelter the girls from the lascivious advances of the opposite sex, Halyard is thwarted when 1,500 Marines arrive to transform the island into an aircraft landing base. Despite the best efforts of Halyard, his housekeeper Thelma, and Marine Colonel Reade, romance blossoms between the three girls and a trio of handsome leathernecks.
When Worlds Collide (1951)
, 1h23Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Impact events in fiction, Space opera, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Larry Keating, Peter Hansen, John Hoyt, Rachel Ames
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65%
Pilot David Randall is paid to fly top-secret photographs from South African astronomer Dr. Emery Bronson to Dr. Cole Hendron in the United States. Hendron, with the assistance of his daughter Joyce, confirms their worst fears: Bronson has discovered a rogue star named Bellus that is on a collision course with Earth.
Quebec (1951)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Historical, Western
Themes Political films
Actors John Drew Barrymore, Corinne Calvet, Barbara Rush, Patric Knowles, John Hoyt, Patsy Ruth Miller
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53%
High Lonesome (1950)
, 1h21Directed by Alan Le May
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors John Drew Barrymore, Chill Wills, John Archer, Kristine Miller, Jack Elam, Frank Cordell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53%
A young drifter is found stealing food at Horse Davis' ranch by Boatwhistle, the cook. Another rancher, Pat Farrell, who is engaged to Horse's daughter Abby, believes the boy to also be a horse thief and possibly worse.
The Big Cat (1949)
, 1h15Directed by Noel M. Smith, Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Lon McCallister, Peggy Ann Garner, Preston Foster, Forrest Tucker, Skip Homeier, Sara Haden
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
Drought during the 1930s forces a large cougar to come down from the high country in Utah to prey on farmers' cattle. This has prompted many farmers to pursue and kill the cat, but so far all have failed.
Tycoon (1947)
, 2h8Directed by Richard Wallace
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors John Wayne, Laraine Day, Cedric Hardwicke, Judith Anderson, James Gleason, Anthony Quinn
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Johnny Munroe (John Wayne) travels to South America to build a mountain railroad tunnel for Frederick Alexander (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), a wealthy industrialist. Complications arise when Alexander insists upon a shorter, more dangerous passage and when his daughter Maura (Laraine Day) develops a romantic interest with Johnny.
Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
, 1h30Directed by B. Reeves Eason, Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Musical, Romance, Western
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker, Marjorie Rambeau
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54%
The film opens in Virginia in 1865, shortly after General Lee's surrender at Battle of Appomattox Court House. A war correspondent Jim Steed exchanges comments with Count Von Bohlen, an arrogant Prussian army officer serving as a military attaché during the American Civil War. A year later Steed is in Vienna shortly before the outbreak of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. There he encounters a famous dancer, Anna Marie, who he persuades to spy for him on Von Bohlen, now a member of the Prussian General staff, who has become infatuated with her. However the secret plans which they manage to pass on to the Austrians are unable to prevent the decisive Prussian victory.
Cobra Woman (1944)
, 1h11Directed by Robert Siodmak, Ray Taylor, Mack V. Wright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors María Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Edgar Barrier, Mary Nash, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56%
Un conteur se lance dans l'histoire étrange de l'île de Cobra. Alors qu'elle s'apprête à célébrer ses noces avec Ramu, une belle indigène, Tolea, est enlevée par un esclave muet, dépêché depuis l'île de Cobra par une grande-prêtresse sanguinaire, Naja. Naja est par ailleurs la sœur jumelle de Tolea. Ramu ne se le tient pas pour dit. En compagnie du jeune Kado et d'un chimpanzé, il s'embarque pour l'île maléfique avant que sa cruelle grande-prêtresse n'ait jetée Tolea dans le volcan où ont déjà péri tant de victimes...
, 1h27Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Jon Hall, María Montez, Leif Erickson, Kurt Katch, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
The story begins right after the successful Mongolian conquest of Bagdad by Hulagu Khan (Kurt Katch). The caliph Hassan (Moroni Olsen) has escaped captivity, together with his young son Ali (Scotty Beckett), and prepares to regroup the renmants of his troops. While staying at the mansion of Prince Cassim (Frank Puglia), Ali and Cassim's daughter Amara (Yvette Duguay), fearing that they will not see each other again, betroth themselves via blood-bond.
Can't Help Singing (1944)
, 1h30Directed by Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ryan
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, Thomas Gomez, Clara Blandick, David Bruce
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Set during the early years of the California Gold Rush, the film tells of the adventures of Caroline Frost, the wilful and spoilt daughter of a US Senator. He does not approve of her beau, Lt Robert Latham, of the US cavalry, and persuades President James K. Polk to post Latham to guard gold shipments from the California mines owned by Jake Carstair.
Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
, 1h13Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors María Montez, Jon Hall, Nigel Bruce, Leo Carrillo, Gale Sondergaard, Douglass Dumbrille
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
The Climax (1944)
, 1h26Directed by George Waggner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Gale Sondergaard, Thomas Gomez, June Vincent
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54%
The physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, Dr. Hohner (Karloff) murders his fiancee, a prima donna, out of obsession and jealousy. Ten years later, he hears another young singer (Foster) who reminds him of the late diva, and is determined to make her sing only for him, even if it means silencing her forever.
, 1h27Directed by Arthur Lubin, Ray Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors María Montez, Jon Hall, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine, Kurt Katch, Frank Puglia
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Après la mort de son père, assassiné par l'armée du Mongol Hulagu Khan, le jeune Ali s'enfuit dans le désert et est recueilli par quarante voleurs. Ensemble, ils organisent la vengeance du jeune garçon...