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William V. Skall is a Other, Assistant Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 5 october 1897 at Chicago (USA)

William V. Skall

William V. Skall
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Nationality USA
Birth 5 october 1897 at Chicago (USA)
Death 22 march 1976 (at 78 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography

William V. Skall (parfois crédité William Skall), A.S.C., né le 5 octobre 1897 à Chicago (Illinois), décédé le 22 mars 1976 à Los Angeles (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain.

Biography

Au cinéma, William V. Skall est d'abord premier assistant opérateur en 1931-1932, puis cadreur en 1933. Il devient chef opérateur à l'occasion de deux courts métrages, en 1934-1935 ; suit un premier long métrage en 1935, Le Petit Colonel de David Butler, avec Shirley Temple et Lionel Barrymore. En tout, il est directeur de la photographie sur quarante-et-un films américains (y compris des westerns), le dernier sorti en 1957. Il collabore également à trois films britanniques (sortis en 1937, 1938 et 1939). À noter qu'il est à nouveau cadreur (non crédité) sur Les Aventures de Robin des Bois de Michael Curtiz et William Keighley (1938, avec Errol Flynn et Olivia de Havilland).

Spécialisé dans la photographie en couleur, selon le procédé Technicolor, il exerce notamment sur Le Danseur pirate de Lloyd Corrigan (1936, avec Steffi Duna et Frank Morgan ; premier film musical tourné en couleur), Le Grand Passage de King Vidor (1940, avec Spencer Tracy et Robert Young), Jeanne d'Arc de Victor Fleming (1948, avec Ingrid Bergman dans le rôle-titre), ou encore Quo Vadis de Mervyn Le Roy (1951, avec Deborah Kerr et Robert Taylor).

À la télévision, entre 1955 et 1961 — année où il se retire —, William V. Skall est chef opérateur sur neuf séries, dont un épisode (diffusé en 1961) de La Quatrième Dimension.

Durant sa carrière, il gagne un Oscar de la meilleure photographie (en 1949, pour Jeanne d'Arc), et obtient neuf autres nominations (voir détails ci-dessous), à chaque fois dans la catégorie couleur. En outre, il gagne un Golden Globe de la meilleure photographie en 1952, toujours dans la catégorie couleur, pour Quo Vadis.

Best films

Quo Vadis (1951)
(Director of Photography)
Joan of Arc (1948)
(Director of Photography)
Kim (1950)
(Director of Photography)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
(Director of Photography)
San Antonio (1945)
(Director of Photography)
Arabian Nights (1942)
(Other)

Usually with

William Wyler
William Wyler
(1 films)
Hal Mohr
Hal Mohr
(5 films)
Max Steiner
Max Steiner
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of William V. Skall (32 films)

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Cameraman

The Silver Chalice, 2h15
Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film
Actors Virginia Mayo, Pier Angeli, Jack Palance, Paul Newman, Walter Hampden, Alexander Scourby
Roles Director of Photography
Rating46% 2.306522.306522.306522.306522.30652
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
Brave Warrior, 1h13
Directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Political films
Actors Jon Hall, Jay Silverheels, Michael Ansara, Harry Cording, James Seay, George Eldredge
Roles Director of Photography
Rating48% 2.439082.439082.439082.439082.43908
1812, dans l'Indiana, un conflit oppose les États-Unis et la Grande-Bretagne. Les deux pays se battent pour obtenir le soutien des Shawnee menés par leur chef Tecumseh et ainsi se ménager le plus grand territoire possible. Tecumseh est un artisan de la paix et pro-américain car les États-Unis lui livrent des vivres. Le frère de Tecumseh, dit le Prophète, veut mener son peuple à la guerre et défie son frère qui le bat. Du coup le Prophète et ses hommes quittent le village et décident d'attaquer la tribu du Chef Litttle Cloud, lui aussi un pacifiste...
Everything I Have Is Yours
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Gower Champion, Marge Champion, Dennis O'Keefe, Dean Miller, Monica Lewis, Eduard Franz
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.8606252.8606252.8606252.8606252.860625
The husband and wife dance team, Chuck and Pamela Hubbard (Gower Champion and Marge Champion), are a pair of happily married dancers. The Hubbards have dreamed for years of taking their act to Broadway, and after much hard work and perseverance, they finally get their shot at the big time, only to discover that Pamela is pregnant, and her doctor forbids her to dance.
Cripple Creek, 1h18
Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George Montgomery, Jerome Courtland, Karin Booth, Richard Egan, Don Porter, John Dehner
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58% 2.904132.904132.904132.904132.90413
It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted, and then having it plated to look like lead. The Government sends agents Bret (George Montgomery) and Larry (Jerome Courtland) who arrive in Cripple Creek posing as Texas gunfighters. While their partner, Strap (Richard Egan) works on the inside as an informant, Bret finds the smelting operation and Larry learns of the payoff. The crooked town Marshal is suspicious of the two men. The reply of his inquiry to Texas exposes them, putting their lives in danger.
The Half-Breed, 1h21
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Robert Young, Janis Carter, Jack Buetel, Barton MacLane, Reed Hadley, Porter Hall
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52% 2.617232.617232.617232.617232.61723
This script must be run from the command line
Quo Vadis
Quo Vadis (1951)
, 2h51
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Anthony Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Peplum, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.549253.549253.549253.549253.54925
The action takes place in ancient Rome from AD 64–68, a period after Emperor Claudius' illustrious and powerful reign, during which the new corrupt and destructive Emperor Nero ascends to power and eventually threatens to destroy Rome's previous peaceful order. The main subject is the conflict between Christianity and the corruption of the Roman Empire, especially in the last period of the Julio-Claudian line. The characters and events depicted are a mixture of actual historical figures and situations and fictionalized ones.
Kim
Kim (1950)
, 1h53
Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Spy films
Actors Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64% 3.247213.247213.247213.247213.24721
Kim (Dean Stockwell), an orphan boy in 1885 India during the British Raj, works at times for his friend Mahbub Ali (Errol Flynn), a roguish horse trader who is also a secret agent for the British. Mahbub Ali becomes aware of a Russian-backed plot to instigate a rebellion.
Rope
Rope (1948)
, 1h20
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about education, L'action se déroule en une journée, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Douglas Dick
Roles Director of Photography
Rating79% 3.9506953.9506953.9506953.9506953.950695
Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw (Dall) and Phillip Morgan (Granger), strangle to death a former classmate, David Kentley (Dick Hogan), in their apartment. They commit the crime as an intellectual exercise; they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder".
Joan of Arc, 2h25
Directed by Richard Rosson, Victor Fleming
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Jeanne d'Arc, Political films, Films based on plays, Histoire de France
Actors Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, George Coulouris, Gene Lockhart
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.197613.197613.197613.197613.19761
Unlike the play Joan of Lorraine, which is a drama that shows how the story of Joan affects a group of actors who are performing it, the film is a straightforward recounting of the life of the French heroine. It begins with an obviously painted shot of the inside of a basilica with a shaft of light, possibly descending from heaven, shining down from the ceiling, and a solemn off-screen voice pronouncing the canonization of the Maid of Orleans. Then, the opening page of what appears to be a church manuscript recounting Joan's life in Latin is shown on the screen, while some uncredited voiceover narration by actor Shepperd Strudwick sets up the tale. The actual story of Joan then begins, from the time she becomes convinced that she has been divinely called to save France to her being burnt at the stake at the hands of the English and the Burgundians.
Song of Scheherazade, 1h45
Directed by Walter Reisch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Musical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden, Brian Donlevy, Terry Kilburn, William Ching
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.190233.190233.190233.190233.19023
Rimsky-Korsakov, a midshipman in the Imperial Russian Navy, secretly yearns to be a composer, but naval regulations prevent him from doing so. He uses a stopover in Tangiers to work on his next composition, Scheherazade (which is actually a symphonic suite but in the film is a ballet), with the tacit support of his captain. There he meets Cara de Talavera and her mother, and romantic events and complications ensue. He has to leave to return home to Russia, where his ballet is staged, but Cara unexpectedly turns up as one of the dancers, and they are reunited.
Life with Father, 1h58
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families
Actors William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor, Edmund Gwenn, Zasu Pitts, Jimmy Lydon
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.5461553.5461553.5461553.5461553.546155
Clarence Day (William Powell), is a benevolent despot of his 1880s New York City household. His wife Vinnie (Irene Dunne), is the real head of the household. The anecdotal story encompasses such details as the romance of Clarence (Jimmy Lydon) with pretty out-of-towner Mary (Elizabeth Taylor). Vinnie tries to get her headstrong husband baptized, else he'll never be able to enter the Kingdom of God.
Night and Day, 2h8
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Mary Martin, Jane Wyman, Dorothy Malone
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0485753.0485753.0485753.0485753.048575
La vie du compositeur américain Cole Porter, depuis ses années à Yale dans les années 10 jusqu'à son apogée durant les années 40.
The Time, The Place and The Girl, 1h45
Directed by David Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Janis Paige, Martha Vickers, S.Z. Sakall, Alan Hale
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.9519852.9519852.9519852.9519852.951985
Deux hommes de chant et de danse luttent pour produire un spectacle de Broadway. David Butler 1946 Dennis Morgan stars de la musique, Jack Carson, Martha Vickers, Janis Paige, SZ Sakall, Angela Greene, Florence Bates, Donald Woods, Alan Hale et Mimi Aguglia.