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Tony Gaudio is a Director of Photography and Cinematography Italien born on 20 november 1883 at Cosenza (Italie)

Tony Gaudio

Tony Gaudio
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Birth name Gaetano Antonio Gaudio
Nationality Italie
Birth 20 november 1883 at Cosenza (Italie)
Death 10 august 1951 (at 67 years) at Burlingame (USA)

Tony Gaudio (20 November 1883 - 10 August 1951) was an Italian American cinematographer and the first to create a montage sequence for a film.

Born Gaetano Antonio Gaudio in Cosenza, Italy, he began his career shooting short subjects for Italian film companies. He moved to New York City in 1906 and worked in Vitagraph's film laboratory until 1909, when he began shooting shorts for the company. His credits include Hell's Angels (1930), Little Caesar (1931), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), God's Country and the Woman (Warner Bros.' first Three-strip Technicolor film, 1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), High Sierra (1941), Days of Glory (1944), and The Red Pony (1949).

Gaudio was a favorite of Bette Davis and worked on eleven of her films, including Ex-Lady, Fog Over Frisco, Front Page Woman, Bordertown, The Sisters, Juarez, The Letter, and The Great Lie.

Gaudio won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Anthony Adverse and was nominated five additional times, for Hell's Angels, Juarez, The Letter, Corvette K-225, and A Song to Remember. He was among the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers.
He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.
His brother Eugene Gaudio, also a cinematographer, died in 1920 at the age of 34.

Biography

Installé aux États-Unis en 1906, Tony Gaudio débute comme directeur de la photographie sur un court métrage muet en 1909. Sa carrière s'achève en 1949, après 146 films américains (dont 69 muets) comme chef opérateur, notamment au sein de la Warner Bros. et de la RKO Pictures. En outre, il réalise deux films muets en 1925.

Entre autres, il collabore avec les réalisateurs Michael Curtiz (ex. : Les Aventures de Robin des Bois en 1938, avec Errol Flynn et Olivia de Havilland), William Dieterle (ex. : La Vie de Louis Pasteur en 1935, avec Paul Muni et Josephine Hutchinson), Mervyn LeRoy (ex. : Anthony Adverse en 1936, avec Fredric March et Olivia de Havilland), Jacques Tourneur (ex. : Angoisse en 1944, avec George Brent et Hedy Lamarr), ou encore Raoul Walsh (ex. : La Grande Évasion (High Sierra) en 1941, avec Humphrey Bogart et Ida Lupino).

En 1924-1925, Tony Gaudio est le président de l'American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), dont l'un des membres fondateurs en 1919 est son frère Eugene Gaudio (1886-1920), également chef opérateur.

En 1937, Tony Gaudio gagne l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie (il aura cinq autres nominations) pour son travail sur Anthony Adverse.

Best films

Hell's Angels (1930)
(Director of Photography)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
(Director of Photography)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
(Camera Operator)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
(Director of Photography)
Little Caesar (1931)
(Director of Photography)
The Front Page (1931)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(26 films)
Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis
(27 films)
Jack Warner
Jack Warner
(20 films)
Perc Westmore
Perc Westmore
(19 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Tony Gaudio (93 films)

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The Red Pony, 1h29
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about families, Films about horses, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick, Peter Miles, Margaret Hamilton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.145923.145923.145923.145923.14592
A young boy, Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles), is given a small pony by his father (Shepperd Strudwick). Tom asks the stable helper, Billy Buck (Robert Mitchum), to help him raise and train it so that it can be ridden. During a rain storm the pony gets out of the stable and having been soaked becomes fevered. Despite Buck's best efforts to nurse the pony it develops strangles and requires a tracheotomy. Shortly after the procedure, the pony escapes from the farm. Tom follows the pony's hoof prints to a gully where it has died and is being eaten by vultures. He blames Buck for not saving its life. Buck, feeling remorse, prepares to kill his own pregnant mare in order to give Tom a colt, believing the unborn may not have turned. Tom grows angry at Buck's willingness to sacrifice a horse and steals his knife. When they return to the stable the foal has been born naturally, with both mother and colt surviving.
That's My Man, 1h37
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Don Ameche, Roscoe Karns, John Ridgely, Frankie Darro, Catherine McLeod, Dorothy Adams
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.048773.048773.048773.048773.04877
Love from a Stranger, 1h21
Directed by Richard Whorf
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney, Ann Richards, John Howard, Isobel Elsom, Ernest Cossart
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.9533852.9533852.9533852.9533852.953385
A woman fears her new husband will kill her.
I've Always Loved You, 1h57
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, Maria Ouspenskaïa, Felix Bressart, Elizabeth Patterson, Vanessa Brown
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.1461753.1461753.1461753.1461753.146175
Leopold Goronoff, lors d'une audition, remarque le talent de Myra Hassman, une jeune pianiste. Il la prend sous sa coupe, et elle devient vite amoureuse de son maître en silence. Très vite, son succès se fait grandissant et porte ombrage à Goronoff. Myra épouse George Sampter, un ami d'enfance, dont elle a une fille. Cette dernière devient, elle aussi, une grande pianiste et doit jouer sous la direction de Goronoff...
A Song to Remember, 1h53
Directed by Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Paul Muni, Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon, Nina Foch, Ivan Triesault, George Coulouris
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2948053.2948053.2948053.2948053.294805
Vidor romanticizes Chopin's patriotism in the film, which was produced during World War II. Chopin, played by Cornel Wilde, is first presented to the audience as a child prodigy playing a piece by Mozart, but suddenly starts to bang on the piano keys when he notices out the window that Polish people are being taken prisoners by the Russian authorities.
I'll Be Seeing You, 1h25
Directed by William Dieterle, George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Films based on plays
Actors Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Tom Tully, John Derek
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.5454453.5454453.5454453.5454453.545445
Social outcasts Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers) and Sgt. Zachary Morgan (Joseph Cotten) meet while seated across from each other on a train bound for Pinehill. Zach, a victim of shell shock and, therefore, a prisoner of his own mind, has just been granted a ten-day leave from a military hospital to try to readjust to daily life. Mary, convicted for Involuntary Manslaughter, has just been given a special eight-day furlough from prison to spend the Christmas holiday with her aunt and uncle in Pinehill. Each harbors his own secret. Mary lies to Zach that she is a traveling saleslady on her way to spend the holidays with her family, while Zach tells Mary that he is going to visit his sister in Pinehill. After the train pulls into the station, the two exchange names. Mary then goes to the Marshall home, where she is reunited with her Uncle Henry (Tom Tully), Aunt Sarah (Spring Byington) and cousin Barbara (Shirley Temple).
Days of Glory, 1h26
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Lowell Gilmore, Gregory Peck, Alan Reed, Maria Palmer, Hugo Haas, Glen Vernon
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0475253.0475253.0475253.0475253.047525
Nina Ivanova (Toumanova), a Russian dancer, becomes separated from a group sent to entertain the troops. She is found and taken to the hideout of a partisan group led by Vladimir (Peck) operating behind the German lines near the city of Tula. At first, the veteran guerrillas do not know what to make of her. Youngster Olga is astonished that she does not know how to fight, cook, mend or clean. The men, however, are entranced by her beauty.
Experiment Perilous, 1h31
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Romance
Actors Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker, Carl Esmond, Olive Blakeney
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.1452553.1452553.1452553.1452553.145255
The story takes place in 1903. During a train trip, psychiatrist Dr. Huntington Bailey (George Brent) meets a friendly older lady (Olive Blakeney). She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and becomes suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife. Nick (Paul Lukas) keeps Allida (Hedy Lamarr), whom he is trying to pass off as crazy, a virtual prisoner in their London town house [a New York brownstone in the film], cutting off all contact with the outside world. The kindly Bailey takes it upon himself to attempt to free his new love Allida from the control of the insanely jealous Nick.
Action in the North Atlantic, 2h6
Directed by Raoul Walsh, Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Political films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop, Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69% 3.498333.498333.498333.498333.49833
An American oil tanker mastered by Capt. Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) is sunk in the north Atlantic Ocean by a German U-boat. He and the first officer, his friend Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart), make it to a lifeboat along with other crewmen. When the U-boat crew starts filming their plight they respond with rude gestures and are rammed. The men swim to a raft and are rescued after 11 days adrift.
Background to Danger, 1h20
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy, Historical, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Osa Massen, Turhan Bey
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.199253.199253.199253.199253.19925
In 1942, Nazi Germany attempts to bring neutral Turkey into the war on its side by staging an assassination attempt on Franz von Papen, its own ambassador to the country. Much to the annoyance of Colonel Robinson (Sydney Greenstreet), von Papen survives and the Russians that his agent provocateur was trying to frame have solid alibis, forcing him to turn to another scheme to inflame Turkey's traditional rivalry with Russia.
The Constant Nymph, 1h52
Directed by Edmund Goulding
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Fontaine, Charles Boyer, Alexis Smith, Brenda Marshall, Charles Coburn, May Whitty
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66% 3.3429353.3429353.3429353.3429353.342935
Lewis Dodd (Charles Boyer) is a composer in Brussels, but his most recent latest symphony is badly received in London. To get over the rejection, he decides to visit his old friend and fellow musician, Albert Sanger (Montagu Love), at his house in Switzerland. Lewis' arrival causes great excitement among Sanger's four daughters: Kate (Jean Muir), Toni (Brenda Marshall), Tessa (Joan Fontaine) and Paula (Joyce Reynolds).
Corvette K-225, 1h36
Directed by Richard Rosson, Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Randolph Scott, Ella Raines, Barry Fitzgerald, Andy Devine, James Brown, Fuzzy Knight
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2912153.2912153.2912153.2912153.291215
In 1943, Lt Cdr McLain (Scott) has just lost his ship as well as two-thirds of his crew due to enemy action. He is allocated a new ship and while waiting for it to be built, befriends the sister of one of his dead officers. Things become somewhat complicated when one of the replacement officers turns out to be another brother. The brand new HMCS Donnacona is assigned to accompany a convoy of ships from Nova Scotia to England. Along the way the ship encounters many of the trials of war.
The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1h52
Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Monty Woolley, Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Jimmy Durante, Richard Travis, Billie Burke
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74% 3.7459453.7459453.7459453.7459453.745945
During a cross-country lecture tour, notoriously acerbic radio personality Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) slips on the icy steps of the house of the Stanleys (Grant Mitchell and Billie Burke), a prominent Ohio family, and insists on recuperating in their home during the Christmas holidays. The overbearing, self-centered celebrity soon comes to dominate the lives of the residents and everyone else who enters the household. He encourages young adults Richard (Russell Arms) and June (Elisabeth Fraser) Stanley to pursue their dreams, much to the dismay of their conventional father Ernest.
Larceny, Inc., 1h35
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Jack Carson, Anthony Quinn, Edward Brophy
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.645453.645453.645453.645453.64545
Suave convict J. Chalmers "Pressure" Maxwell decides to go straight. Just before he is released from prison along with his none-too-bright accomplice Jug Martin, he rejects a proposal by fellow inmate Leo Dexter to rob a bank.