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William H. Daniels is a Actor, Associate Producer, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 1 december 1901 at Cleveland (USA)

William H. Daniels

William H. Daniels
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Nationality USA
Birth 1 december 1901 at Cleveland (USA)
Death 14 june 1970 (at 68 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography

William H. Daniels, A.S.C. (December 1, 1901 – June 14, 1970) was a film cinematographer who was Greta Garbo's personal lensman. Early in his career he worked regularly with director Erich von Stroheim. He is not to be confused with the stage and TV actor of the same name.

Biography

En 1919 et 1920, William H. Daniels est cadreur sur deux films muets d'Erich von Stroheim, avec qui il continue à collaborer (désormais comme chef opérateur) dans la première moitié des années 1920, entre autres sur Les Rapaces (1924). Dans la seconde moitié de ces mêmes années, il devient le chef-opérateur quasi-attitré de Greta Garbo et ainsi, assiste notamment le réalisateur Clarence Brown (lequel dirige La Divine à sept reprises) qu'il retrouvera jusqu'en 1952. Il travaille aussi plusieurs fois avec d'autres grands réalisateurs, tels George Cukor ou Anthony Mann.

Au total, il participe — jusqu'en 1970 — à plus de 150 films américains (exception faite d'un film japonais en 1963). Mentionnons également un film de 1930 en langue française - produit par la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer -, Si l'empereur savait ça (avec Françoise Rosay et André Luguet), réalisé par Jacques Feyder, avec lequel William H. Daniels collabore sur trois autres films (dont la version allemande, sortie en 1931, d’Anna Christie).

Il gagne un Oscar de la meilleure photographie en 1949 et reçoit trois autres nominations.

Entre 1964 et 1966, il est aussi producteur de cinq films interprétés par Frank Sinatra (qui en réalise un), avec lequel il avait antérieurement collaboré, à plusieurs reprises, sur d'autres réalisations (ainsi, Comme un torrent en 1958, L'Inconnu de Las Vegas en 1960...).

Best films

How the West Was Won (1962)
(Director of Photography)
Von Ryan's Express (1965)
(Director of Photography)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
(Director of Photography)
Some Came Running (1958)
(Director of Photography)
A Hole in the Head (1959)
(Director of Photography)
Plymouth Adventure (1952)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(69 films)
Adrian
Adrian
(41 films)
Irving Thalberg
Irving Thalberg
(24 films)
Bud Westmore
Bud Westmore
(29 films)
Russel Gausman
Russel Gausman
(29 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of William H. Daniels (143 films)

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Actor

Family Honeymoon, 1h30
Directed by Claude Binyon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families
Actors Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Rita Johnson, William H. Daniels, Gigi Perreau, Hattie McDaniel
Rating63% 3.191933.191933.191933.191933.19193
Katie Armstrong (Claudette Colbert) is a young widow and mother of three children - Charlie (Jimmy Hunt), Abner (Peter Miles) and Zoe (Gigi Perreau). She is also engaged to be married to botany professor Grant Jordan (Fred MacMurray). Grant is seeking funds to raise a new botany research building on the university campus where he works, and the most influential person to convince in this quest is his chancellor, Richard Fenster Paul Harvey. Grant used to be involved with the chancellor’s daughter, Minna (Rita Johnson), and is surprised, to say the least, when Minna crashes his bachelor party. Minna also almost succeeds in completely ruining Katie’s engagement party. When Katie hears about Minna’s visit at the bachelor party, Grant does his best to assure her that Minna is a finished chapter in his book, but he also has a hard time completely ignoring her, since he needs to be on good foot with the chancellor himself.
Another Romance of Celluloid, 11minutes
Directed by Herman Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Capra, William H. Daniels, Clark Gable, Betty Ross Clarke, Myrna Loy
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.046633.046633.046633.046633.04663
The film starts with a brief reprise of the previous film, before cutting to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California where assistant cameraman Bill Reilly picks up the film from the lab for Marie Antoinette (1938) which he passes on to cameraman William H. Daniels. Behind the scenes footage shows W.S. Van Dyke directing a scene between Norma Shearer and Robert Morley before the negative is taken to the lab to be developed, dried and polished by lab technician John M. Nickolaus. The test strips are then read and delivered to the print room for printing. A tram takes the viewer on a quick tour of the studio complete with behind the scenes footage of George B. Seitz directing Judge Hardy's Children (1938), Freddie Bartholomew training with elephants for the then unproduced Kim, Luise Rainer doing a costume test for The Toy Wife (1938), and candid footage of Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. The film concludes with a montage from trailers for coming MGM pictures and footage of Louis B. Mayer, Frank Capra, Luise Rainer and Louise Tracy at the 10th Academy Awards banquet.

Producer

Assault on a Queen, 1h46
Directed by Richard Long, Robert D. Webb, Jack Donohue
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte, Alf Kjellin, Reginald Denny
Roles Associate Producer
Rating56% 2.8026252.8026252.8026252.8026252.802625
A World War II-era German submarine missing for 20 years is retrieved in the Bahamas by diver Mark Brittain, hired by the wealthy Rosa Lucchesi and her partner, Vic Rossiter, who have been searching for Spanish galleons.
Marriage on the Rocks, 1h49
Directed by Jack Donohue
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin, Cesar Romero, John McGiver, Nancy Sinatra
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.8519052.8519052.8519052.8519052.851905
After nineteen years of marriage, Dan Edwards' wife Val is exasperated with his lack of attention to her and the amount of attention he pays to a Los Angeles advertising agency that he runs with his friend, Ernie Brewer, a laid-back second-in-command.
None But the Brave, 1h46
Directed by Frank Sinatra
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Clint Walker, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Kenji Sahara, Tony Bill
Roles Producer
Rating63% 3.198043.198043.198043.198043.19804
Narrated in English by a Japanese officer named Kuroki (in the form of a journal he is writing for his wife), a platoon of Japanese soldiers is stranded on an island in the Pacific with no means of communicating with the outside world. Lieutenant Kuroki (Tatsuya Mihashi) keeps his men firmly in hand and is supervising the building of a boat for their escape.
Marriage on the Rocks, 1h49
Directed by Jack Donohue, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, Dean Martin, Cesar Romero, Hermione Baddeley, Tony Bill
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.8519052.8519052.8519052.8519052.851905
Après plus de vingt ans de mariage Valérie se demande si elle ne va pas se séparer de Dan.... mais un juge prononce leur divorce par erreur. Valérie décide alors de reconquérir le cœur de Dan.
Robin and the 7 Hoods, 2h3
Directed by Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, Dean Martin, Edward G. Robinson, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Heist films, Gangster films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bing Crosby, Peter Falk, Edward G. Robinson
Roles Associate Producer
Rating63% 3.1975853.1975853.1975853.1975853.197585
"Big" Jim Stevens, undisputed boss of the Chicago underworld, gets an unexpected birthday present from his ambitious lieutenant, Guy Gisborne. Instead of a stripper popping out of the cake, Big Jim gets shot by all the guests. With the mob boss out of the way, Gisborne takes over. He orders all the other gangsters in town to pay him protection money, but declares it's still "All for One." The news does not sit well with Big Jim's friend and fellow gangster, Robbo, and a gangland war breaks out.

Cameraman

Move
Move (1970)
, 1h30
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Elliott Gould, Paula Prentiss, Richard Bull, Geneviève Waïte, John Larch, Joe Silver
Roles Director of Photography
Rating50% 2.527442.527442.527442.527442.52744
The film covers three days in the life of Hiram Jaffe (Gould), a would-be playwright who supplements his living as a porn writer and by walking dogs. He and his wife, Dolly (Paula Prentiss), are moving to a new apartment on New York's Upper West Side. Jaffe is beset by problems, including his inability to persuade the moving man to move the couple's furniture, and retreats into fantasy.
Marlowe
Marlowe (1969)
, 1h36
Directed by Paul Bogart
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno, Bruce Lee, Sharon Farrell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.195453.195453.195453.195453.19545
Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe deduces that there is much more to this than a simple missing-person case.
Valley of the Dolls, 2h3
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about television, Children's films
Actors Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, Susan Hayward, Lee Grant, Tony Scotti
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.000083.000083.000083.000083.00008
Three young women meet when they embark on their careers. Neely O'Hara (Duke) is a plucky kid with undeniable talent who sings in a Broadway show—the legendary actress Helen Lawson (Hayward) is the star of the play—while Jennifer North (Tate), a beautiful blonde with limited talent, is in the chorus. Anne Welles (Parkins) is a New England ingenue who recently arrived in New York City and works as a secretary for a theatrical agency that represents Lawson. Neely, Jennifer, and Anne become fast friends, sharing the bonds of ambition and the tendency to fall in love with the wrong men.
In Like Flint, 1h39
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Herb Edelman, Anna Lee
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0499953.0499953.0499953.0499953.049995
After observing the launch of a new space platform, Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organisation World Intelligence Espionage) Chief Lloyd C. Cramden joins President Trent (Andrew Duggan) for a game of golf. While on the links they are interrupted by a small group, two women disguised as boys and an actor disguised as an old man, all from the Fabulous Face organization. Discreetly substituting the presidential golf ball with a small gas bomb they succeed in temporarily immobilizing the presidential party and replacing the president with the now-undisguised actor, who has been surgically altered to look exactly like him. The Fabulous Face organization has conceived a plot to gain control of the world and run it entirely by a group of women led by Elisabeth (Anna Lee); Cramden has more-or-less inadvertently stumbled upon this world-domination plot. The women want to establish a matriarchy, and the first step in their plan is to gain control of a US space facility in the Virgin Islands. Elisabeth has established the spa there as a cover. The women establish their headquarters near the rocket base to brainwash their male-oriented sisters by planting tape recorders in their hair dryers.
In Like Flint, 1h54
Directed by Gordon Douglas, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Spy films
Actors James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, Andrew Duggan, Anna Lee, Steve Ihnat
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0499953.0499953.0499953.0499953.049995
L’agent Flint découvre que le président des États-Unis est un imposteur. Ce dernier est en réalité un acteur engagé par un groupe de femmes qui tentent de conquérir le monde. Pour ce faire, elles se servent de leurs salons de coiffure pour effectuer des lavages de cerveaux à toute personne s’y rendant…
Assault on a Queen, 1h46
Directed by Richard Long, Robert D. Webb, Jack Donohue
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte, Alf Kjellin, Reginald Denny
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.8026252.8026252.8026252.8026252.802625
A World War II-era German submarine missing for 20 years is retrieved in the Bahamas by diver Mark Brittain, hired by the wealthy Rosa Lucchesi and her partner, Vic Rossiter, who have been searching for Spanish galleons.
Von Ryan's Express, 1h57
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Rail transport films, Political films, Évasion, Children's films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Adolfo Celi, Sergio Fantoni, Brad Dexter
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.549363.549363.549363.549363.54936
Colonel Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot who is shot down over Italy. He is captured by Italian troops and taken to a POW camp, run by the cruel Blackshirt Major Basilio Battaglia (Adolfo Celi). The camp is mainly populated by British prisoners.