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Lucien Ballard is a Director of Photography, Editor and Cinematography American born on 6 may 1908 at Oklahoma (USA)

Lucien Ballard

Lucien Ballard
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Nationality USA
Birth 6 may 1908 at Oklahoma (USA)
Death 1 october 1988 (at 80 years) at Rancho Mirage (USA)

Lucien Ballard, A.S.C. (6 May 1908 – 1 October 1988) was an American cinematographer and director of photography.

Best films

True Grit (1969)
(Director of Photography)
Nevada Smith (1966)
(Director of Photography)
Laura (1944)
(Director of Photography)
One Hour with You (1932)
(Camera Operator)
Moontide (1942)
(Director of Photography)
Morocco (1930)
(Assistant Camera)

Usually with

Lyle Wheeler
Lyle Wheeler
(14 films)
Thomas Little
Thomas Little
(12 films)
Sam Peckinpah
Sam Peckinpah
(5 films)
Ben Nye
Ben Nye
(13 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lucien Ballard (109 films)

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Cameraman

A Time for Dying, 1h7
Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Victor Jory, Beatrice Kay, Robert Random, Peter Brocco, Burt Mustin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.855622.855622.855622.855622.85562
Cass Bunning (Richard Lapp), a farm boy with a talent for shooting, meets up with Nellie (Anne Randall), a naive woman from the East, who has been lured West by the promise of a waitressing job which turns out to be in a brothel. Cass helps Nellie escape and two are forced into marriage with each other by Judge Roy Bean (Victor Jory). Cass decides to become a bounty hunter. He crosses with Jesse James (Audie Murphy) who, impressed by Cass' shooting, suggests he join his gang, but Cass wants to stay at his new job. Cass is killed in a shoot out with the outlaw Billy Pimple (Bob Random), and Neillie is forced into prostitution.
Rabbit Test, 1h24
Directed by Joan Rivers
Genres Comedy
Actors Billy Crystal, Roddy McDowall, Joan Prather, Alex Rocco, Doris Roberts, Michael Keaton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating31% 1.587121.587121.587121.587121.58712
Lionel Carpenter is a night-school teacher who has bad luck with women. He remains a virgin until his brash cousin Danny (Alex Rocco) sets him up with a one-night stand. Soon after, Lionel starts feeling nauseated and vomits, eventually doing so onto Segoynia Savaka (Joan Prather), one of his immigrant students. This turns out to be a blessing in disguise, as it gives him an excuse to ask her out on a date, and a romance develops.
St. Ives
St. Ives (1976)
, 1h34
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Charles Bronson, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, John Houseman, Harry Guardino, Harris Yulin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.096263.096263.096263.096263.09626
Abner Procane hires Raymond St. Ives, a crime reporter and ex-policeman, to return five ledgers stolen from his safe.
From Noon Till Three, 1h39
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Douglas Fowley, Bert Williams, Anne Ramsey, Damon Douglas
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.2452953.2452953.2452953.2452953.245295
The setting is the American West, late 19th century. A gang of bank robbers led by Graham Dorsey (Charles Bronson) is off to rob a small-town bank, but Graham is having second thoughts: he's had a nightmare in which the gang was wiped out during the robbery attempt. Worse, Graham's horse broke down and the gang members have to get another. They try at the ranch of the widow Amanda Starbuck (Jill Ireland). Amanda, suspicious of the men, denies having a horse. Graham checks out the barn and finds a horse, but still afraid of disaster, he lies to his men and agrees to wait three hours at the ranch for their return (the "from noon till three" of the title). It turns out he has another reason for wanting to stay behind though: he wants to force himself on Mrs. Starbuck. Amanda resists rather inventively; simply lies still, fully clothed. This frustrates Graham, who decides on a ruse. He pretends he is impotent, hoping to play on Amanda's sympathy. The deception works, and they make love three times.
Drum
Drum (1976)
, 1h50
Directed by Burt Kennedy, Steve Carver
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Warren Oates, Pam Grier, Isela Vega, Yaphet Kotto, John Colicos, Fiona Lewis
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54% 2.7042852.7042852.7042852.7042852.704285
This film picks up the story 15 years after the events of the first film. Drum (Norton) has been born to a white prostitute (Vega), who raises him with her black lesbian lover (Kelly). Drum grows up to be a fighter and is often forced to bare-knuckle-box other slaves for the entertainment of the owners, one of whom is a gay Frenchman named Bernard DeMarigny (Colicos). DeMarigny wants to sleep with Drum, but his advances are rejected by the slave and DeMarigny vows revenge against Drum. Drum and his friend Blaise (Kotto) are eventually sold to plantation owner Hammond Maxwell (Oates) and are both taken to his plantation to work. Drum's girlfriend Regine (Grier) is purchased by Maxwell as well and is taken to the plantation for his own personal desires.
Mikey and Nicky, 1h59
Directed by Elaine May
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Carol Grace, Reuben Greene, William Hickey
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73% 3.6926453.6926453.6926453.6926453.692645
When Nicky calls Mikey yet again to bail him out of trouble—this time a contract on his life for money he stole from his mob boss—Mikey, as always, shows up to help. Overcoming the obstacles of Nicky's paranoia and blind fear, Mikey gets him out of the hotel where he has holed up, and starts to help him plan his escape, but Nicky keeps changing the plan, and a hit man is hot on their trail. As they try to make their escape, the two friends have to confront issues of betrayal, regret, and the value of friendship versus self-preservation.
Breakout
Breakout (1975)
, 1h36
Directed by Tom Gries
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, Randy Quaid, John Huston, Roy Jenson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.0513953.0513953.0513953.0513953.051395
Harris Wagner (Huston) frames Jay Wagner (Duvall). In order to keep him silent, Jay is incarcerated in a Mexican prison.
Breakheart Pass, 1h35
Directed by Tom Gries
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about viral outbreaks, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland, Ed Lauter, Charles Durning
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.348383.348383.348383.348383.34838
In the 1870s, residents of the garrison at the Fort Humboldt Army outpost are supposedly suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. A train is heading towards the fort filled with reinforcements and medical supplies. There are also civilian passengers on the train – Nevada Governor Fairchild (Richard Crenna) and his fiancée Marica (Jill Ireland), among others.
Three the Hard Way, 1h33
Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., Gordon Parks Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about racism
Actors Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Jay Robinson, Sheila Frazier, Howard Platt, Charles McGregor
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.099133.099133.099133.099133.09913
Three The Hard Way was released in 1974 and is considered one of the classic action movies of the blaxploitation genre. Directed by the acclaimed Gordon Parks Jr., son of Gordon Parks (Shaft 1971) and director of Super Fly (1972), the film stars the three biggest black action stars of the era; Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen, El Condor, Slaughter) as record producer Jimmy Lait, Fred Williamson (Black Caesar, Bucktown) as entrepreneur Jagger Daniels, and Jim Kelly (Enter the Dragon, Black Samurai, Black Belt Jones, One Down Two to Go) as martial arts master Mister Keyes.
Thomasine & Bushrod
Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., Gordon Parks Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Max Julien, Glynn Turman, Juanita Moore, George Murdock, Vonetta McGee, Jason Bernard
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.9520452.9520452.9520452.9520452.952045
Vonetta McGee plays Thomasine and Max Julien plays Bushrod in a film intended as a counterpart to the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.
Lady Ice
Lady Ice (1973)
, 1h34
Directed by Tom Gries
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Donald Sutherland, Jennifer O'Neill, Robert Duvall, Patrick Magee, Jon Cypher, Eric Braeden
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48% 2.418282.418282.418282.418282.41828
Arruza
Arruza (1972)
, 1h15
Directed by Budd Boetticher
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Bullfighting films
Actors Anthony Quinn, Jason Robards
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.3319653.3319653.3319653.3319653.331965
Documentaire sur le célèbre matador mexicain Carlos Arruza.
Junior Bonner, 1h40
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Steve McQueen, Robert Preston, Ida Lupino, Ben Johnson, Bill McKinney, Joe Don Baker
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.3452453.3452453.3452453.3452453.345245
Junior "JR" Bonner is a rodeo rider who is slightly "over the hill". Junior is first seen taping up his injuries after an unsuccessful ride on an ornery bull named Sunshine.
The Getaway, 2h2
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri, Slim Pickens
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.6481053.6481053.6481053.6481053.648105
Carter "Doc" McCoy (McQueen), in prison in Texas, is denied parole. When his wife Carol (MacGraw) visits him, he tells her to do whatever necessary to make a deal with Jack Benyon (Johnson), a corrupt businessman in San Antonio.
What's the Matter with Helen?, 1h41
Directed by Curtis Harrington
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Musical, Crime, Romance
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver, Agnes Moorehead, Harry Dean Stanton, Peggy Rea
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.1462853.1462853.1462853.1462853.146285
Leonard Hill and Wesley Bruckner are seen being loaded into a paddywagon to face life sentences in prison for the Iowa murder of Ellie Banner. Their mothers, Helen Hill (Shelley Winters) and Adelle Bruckner (Debbie Reynolds) fight a crowd to their car.