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Charles Lang is a Actor, Scriptwriter, Director of Photography, Sound and Cinematography American born on 27 march 1902 at Bluff (USA)

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Birth name Charles Bryant Lang Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 27 march 1902 at Bluff (USA)
Death 3 april 1998 (at 96 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California ) 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. Lang's first credits were as co-cinematographer on the silent films The Night Patrol (1926) and The Loves of Ricardo (1927).

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, 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. His credits include The Big Heat (1953) with Lee Marvin, Sabrina (1954) with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, The Matchmaker (1958), Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon, The Magnificent Seven (1960) with Steve McQueen, One-Eyed Jacks (1961) with Marlon Brando, How the West Was Won (1962) in Cinerama, Charade (1963) with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, 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.

Biography

Charles Lang est directeur de la photographie sur près de 150 films américains, entre 1926 et 1973. Il travaille notamment aux côtés des réalisateurs Frank Borzage (ex. : L'Adieu aux armes en 1932, avec Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes), George Cukor (ex. : Zaza, avec Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall), Stanley Donen (Charade en 1963, avec Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn), Henry Hathaway (ex. : Les Gars du large en 1938, avec George Raft, Henry Fonda, Dorothy Lamour), Richard Quine (ex. : Une vierge sur canapé en 1964, avec Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Lauren Bacall), John Sturges (ex. : Règlements de comptes à OK Corral en 1957, avec Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas) et Billy Wilder (ex. : La Scandaleuse de Berlin en 1948, avec Jean Arthur, Marlène Dietrich), entre autres.

Au cours de sa carrière, il obtient 18 nominations à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie, dont un gagné en 1934, pour L'Adieu aux armes pré-cité (voir la rubrique "Récompenses" ci-dessous).