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Russell Harlan is a Director, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 16 september 1903 at Los Angeles (USA)

Russell Harlan

Russell Harlan
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Nationality USA
Birth 16 september 1903 at Los Angeles (USA)
Death 28 february 1974 (at 70 years) at Newport Beach (USA)

Russell Harlan (parfois crédité Russell B. Harlan), A.S.C., né le 16 septembre 1903 à Los Angeles (Californie), décédé le 28 février 1974 à Newport Beach (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain.

Biography

Au cinéma, Russell Harlan débute en 1931 comme premier assistant opérateur (trois films, y compris Les Croisades de Cecil B. DeMille, en 1935), puis devient chef opérateur en 1937. À ce poste, jusqu'en 1970, il contribue à une centaine de films américains, dont de nombreux westerns, réalisés notamment par André De Toth (ex. : Femme de feu en 1947, avec Joel McCrea et Veronica Lake) et Howard Hawks (ex. : Rio Bravo en 1959, avec John Wayne, Angie Dickinson et Dean Martin). Il travaille aux côtés d'Howard Hawks sur plusieurs autres films, dont le western La Rivière rouge en 1948 (première collaboration), avec John Wayne, Montgomery Clift et Joanne Dru, et le péplum La Terre des pharaons en 1955, avec Jack Hawkins et Joan Collins.

Parmi les autres réalisateurs qu'il côtoie, mentionnons Richard Brooks (ex. : Graine de violence en 1955, avec Glenn Ford, Anne Francis et Sidney Poitier), Blake Edwards (ex. : Darling Lili en 1970, avec Julie Andrews et Rock Hudson, son dernier film comme directeur de la photographie), Robert Mulligan (ex. : Du silence et des ombres en 1962, avec Gregory Peck et Brock Peters), ou encore Robert Wise (ex. : L'Odyssée du sous-marin Nerka en 1958, avec Clark Gable et Burt Lancaster).

À la télévision, Russell Harlan participe à trois séries, entre 1952 et 1963.

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

Best films

Hawaii (1966)
(Director of Photography)
The Great Race (1965)
(Director of Photography)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
(Director of Photography)
Hatari! (1962)
(Director of Photography)
Red River (1948)
(Director of Photography)
Rio Bravo (1959)
(Director of Photography)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Russell Harlan (92 films)

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Director

The Llano Kid, 1h10
Directed by Russell Harlan
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tito Guízar, Gale Sondergaard, Alan Mowbray, Jan Clayton, Emma Dunn, Minor Watson
Rating55% 2.7547052.7547052.7547052.7547052.754705
The Llano Kid is a romantic highwayman who robs stagecoaches along the Texas-Mexico border. In the film, John and Lora Travers are searching for Enrique Ibarra to inform him that he is the heir to a substantial fortune and ranch/hacienda south of the border. If they find him, they will receive a significant reward. During their search for Ibarra, their stage falls victim to the Llano Kid. Noticing that the Llano Kid bear an uncanny resemblance to Ibarra, the Travers conspire to persuade the Kid to pose as Ibarra so they can collect their reward.

Cameraman

Darling Lili, 1h47
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Gloria Paul, Jeremy Kemp, Vernon Dobtcheff, Lance Percival
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0468253.0468253.0468253.0468253.046825
Set during World War I, the film centers on Lili Smith (Julie Andrews), a popular British music hall performer who is regarded as a femme fatale. She is actually a German spy, and the uncle she dotes upon is really Colonel Kurt Von Ruger (Jeremy Kemp), a fellow spy and her contact with the German military.
Tobruk
Tobruk (1967)
, 1h50
Directed by Arthur Hiller, Joseph Kane
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Le désert, Guerre du désert
Actors Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Jack Watson, Robert Wolders
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.197573.197573.197573.197573.19757
In September 1942, Rommel's Africa Korps is only 90 miles (144 km) from the Suez Canal, but running dangerously low on fuel. The British approve a plan to destroy German fuel bunkers at Tobruk in an attempt to cripple Rommel's attack.
Hawaii
Hawaii (1966)
, 3h9
Directed by George Roy Hill, James Blue, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Gene Hackman, Jocelyne LaGarde, Richard Harris, Carroll O'Connor
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.2480353.2480353.2480353.2480353.248035
The story follows Prince Keoki Kanakoa, the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha, who join the prince on mission to the Islands of Hawaii for the Calvinist church with the promise to make Kanakoa a minister. Upon their arrival to the islands, the ship stops in Lahaina, Maui before going on to Honolulu, Oahu where the main church has been established. There they are greeted by the aliʻi nui, Malama Kanakoa, Keoki's mother, who stops the Hales from traveling further when she demands Jerusha remain in Lahaina to teach her to write. Reverend Hale attempts to teach her of the Christian God first but she refuses until she, herself can write. Only after that will she listen to Abner's Christian teachings. As Hale learns, there is a serious difference between a destiny calling to him and the call to recognize the needs of others.
The Great Race, 2h37
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Monde imaginaire, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, William Bryant, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, Keenan Wynn
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5987253.5987253.5987253.5987253.598725
The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) and Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) are competing daredevils at the turn of the 20th century. Leslie is the classic hero – always dressed in white, handsome, ever-courteous, enormously talented and successful. Leslie's nemesis, Fate, is the traditional melodramatic villain – usually dressed in black, sporting a black moustache and top hat, glowering at most everyone, maniacal evil laugh, grandiose plans to thwart the hero, and dogged by failure. Leslie proposes an automobile race from New York to Paris, to prove the ability of a new car named after him. Fate builds his own race vehicle, the Hannibal Twin-8, complete with hidden devices of sabotage. Others enter cars in the race, including New York City's most prominent newspaper. Driving the newspaper's car is beautiful photojournalist Maggie DuBois (Natalie Wood), a vocal suffragette.
Dear Heart
Dear Heart (1965)
, 1h53
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Nichols, Charles Drake, Mary Wickes
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5938053.5938053.5938053.5938053.593805
Evie Jackson (Geraldine Page) is a middle-aged, single postmaster who is attending a postmasters' convention in New York City. Honest and somewhat tactless, she has many friends but pines for love. Harry Mork (Glenn Ford) is a womanizing advertising executive who is staying in the same hotel while he finds an apartment. Mork is engaged to Phyllis (Angela Lansbury), a woman from Altoona, Pennsylvania. Mork has been told that Phyllis has a son, whom he assumes from a photo is about 13 years old. But the photo is old and her son, Patrick (Michael Anderson, Jr.), is actually 18 years old and a bohemian. Mork is surprised to discover Patrick's true age. He is also embarrassed by Patrick's casual attitude toward women and nudity, and suspicious of Patrick's seemingly platonic relationship with fellow student Émile Zola Bernkrand (Joanna Crawford).
Man's Favorite Sport?, 2h
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, Edy Williams, Norman Alden, John McGiver
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.546673.546673.546673.546673.54667
Roger Willoughby is a well-known fishing expert who works as a salesman for Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Abigail Page is a brash and flighty public relations woman. Page is determined to secure Willoughby's participation in a prestigious fishing tournament, only to discover that Willoughby is a phony—he's never fished in his life.
A Gathering of Eagles, 1h55
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Kevin McCarthy, Henry Silva
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0450553.0450553.0450553.0450553.045055
The Inspector General of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), Major General "Happy Jack" Kirby (Kevin McCarthy), lands unannounced at the fictional Carmody Air Force Base in northern California (a role actually filled by the real life Beale AFB), home of the 904th Strategic Aerospace Wing. Accompanied by a 30-man inspection team, he demands that the Air Police take him directly to the wing's command post and once there announces a no-notice Operational Readiness Inspection (ORI). As the inspection continues, General Kirby receives a score report from a member of his team. With this in hand, he calls General Hewitt, the commanding general of SAC at his Omaha headquarters and soberly informs him, "It doesn't look too good so far, sir.
To Kill a Mockingbird, 2h9
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about racism
Actors Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, John Megna, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall, Alice Ghostley
Roles Director of Photography
Rating82% 4.148814.148814.148814.148814.14881
The film's young protagonists, Jean Louise "Scout" Finch (Mary Badham) and her brother Jeremy Atticus "Jem" Finch (Phillip Alford), live in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930s. The story covers three years, during which Scout and Jem undergo changes in their lives. They begin as innocent children, who spend their days happily playing games with each other and spying on Arthur "Boo" Radley (Robert Duvall), who has not been seen for many years by anybody as a result of never leaving his house and about whom many rumors circulate. Their widowed father, Atticus (Gregory Peck), is a town lawyer and has a strong belief that all people are to be treated fairly, to turn the other cheek, and to stand for what you believe. He also allows his children to call him by his first name. Early in the film, the children see their father accept hickory nuts, and other produce, from Mr. Cunningham (Crahan Denton) for legal work because the client has no money. Through their father's work as a lawyer, Scout and Jem begin to learn of the racism and evil in their town, aggravated by poverty; they mature quickly as they are exposed to it.
Hatari!
Hatari! (1962)
, 2h31
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors John Wayne, Elsa Martinelli, Hardy Krüger, Red Buttons, Gérard Blain, Bruce Cabot
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.546133.546133.546133.546133.54613
Hatari! is the story of a group of adventurers in East Africa, engaged in the exciting and lucrative but dangerous business of catching wild animals for delivery to zoos around the world. As "Momella Game Ltd.", they operate from a compound near the town of Arusha. The head of the group is Sean Mercer (John Wayne); the others are safari veteran Little Wolf a/k/a "Indian" (Bruce Cabot), drivers "Pockets" (Red Buttons), and Kurt (Hardy Krüger), roper Luis (a Mexican former bullfighter; Valentin de Vargas), and Brandy (Michele Girardon), a young woman whose late father was a member of the group; she grew up there.
The Spiral Road, 2h25
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Rock Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Burl Ives, Neva Patterson, Philip Abbott, Geoffrey Keen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.046273.046273.046273.046273.04627
Dr. Anton Drager (Rock Hudson) travels to Java to study the effects of leprosy under an expert on the subject, Dr. Brits Jansen (Burl Ives). The two physicians have many of the same views scientifically, but are philosophically a mismatch, because Drager does not share the older Jansen's belief in the One True Triune Living God of the Bible.
Pollyanna
Pollyanna (1960)
, 2h14
Directed by David Swift
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou, Agnes Moorehead
Roles Director of Photography
Rating73% 3.695983.695983.695983.695983.69598
Pollyanna, fille orpheline de missionnaires, arrive dans la petite ville de Harrington pour vivre avec sa riche tante, Polly Harrington. Pollyanna est jeune et gaie, se concentre sur la bonté de vie et, ainsi se fait de nombreux amis dans la communauté dont l'hypocondriaque M Snow et l'acide ermite M. Pendergast.
Sunrise at Campobello, 2h24
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Ralph Bellamy, Greer Garson, Francis De Sales, Hume Cronyn, Jean Hagen, Ann Shoemaker
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.393693.393693.393693.393693.39369
The film begins at the Roosevelt family's summer home on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada (on the border with Maine), in the summer of 1921. Franklin D. Roosevelt is depicted in early scenes as vigorously athletic, enjoying games with his children and sailing his boat.
Day of the Outlaw, 1h32
Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise, Alan Marshal, Venetia Stevenson, David Nelson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.642513.642513.642513.642513.64251
Blaise Starrett (Robert Ryan) is a ruthless cattleman at odds with homesteaders in a small, bleak western town in Wyoming called Bitters. A feud develops between Starrett and a local farmer Hal Crane. The farmer's wife Helen (Tina Louise) offers to renew a love affair with Starrett if he promises not to kill Hal.
Operation Petticoat, 2h4
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill, Joan O'Brien, Gene Evans, Gavin MacLeod
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5989153.5989153.5989153.5989153.598915
In 1959, United States Navy Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant), ComSubPac, boards the obsolete submarine USS Sea Tiger prior to her departure for the scrapyard. The first commanding officer of the Sea Tiger, Sherman begins reading his wartime personal logbook and recalling earlier events