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Winton C. Hoch is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 31 july 1905 at Iowa (USA)

Winton C. Hoch

Winton C. Hoch
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Nationality USA
Birth 31 july 1905 at Iowa (USA)
Death 20 march 1979 (at 73 years) at Santa Monica (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Winton C. Hoch (parfois crédité Winton Hoch), A.S.C., né le 31 juillet 1905 à Storm Lake (Iowa), décédé le 20 mars 1979 à Santa Monica (Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain.

Biography

Au cinéma, Winton C. Hoch débute comme chef opérateur sur vingt-six courts métrages documentaires, produits par la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer et sortis de 1935 à 1939, tous tournés en Technicolor, procédé dont il devient l'un des chefs opérateurs spécialisés. Son premier long métrage est Dr. Cyclops d'Ernest B. Schoedsack (1940, avec Albert Dekker). Le deuxième est Le Dragon récalcitrant (1941) d'Hamilton Luske et Alfred L. Werker, documentaire des Studios Disney, mêlant l'animation aux prises de vues réelles (dont il est responsable). Ultérieurement, il contribue à trois autres films produits par Walt Disney Pictures, le dernier étant Darby O'Gill et les Farfadets de Robert Stevenson (1959, avec Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro et Sean Connery).

Il est également connu pour sa collaboration à cinq films de John Ford, dont La Charge héroïque (1949, avec John Wayne et Joanne Dru) et L'Homme tranquille (1952, avec John Wayne et Maureen O'Hara), qui lui valent chacun de gagner l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie — il en remporte un troisième pour Jeanne d'Arc de Victor Fleming, sorti en 1948, avec Ingrid Bergman dans le rôle-titre —.

En tout, Winton C. Hoch est directeur de la photographie sur trente-trois films américains (non compris les courts métrages pré-cités), le dernier sorti en 1972.

À la télévision, entre 1959 et 1970, il est chef opérateur sur neuf séries, dont l'intégrale d’Au cœur du temps (trente épisodes, 1966-1967).

Best films

Mister Roberts (1955)
(Director of Photography)
The Green Berets (1968)
(Director of Photography)
The Searchers (1956)
(Director of Photography)
Joan of Arc (1948)
(Director of Photography)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
(Director of Photography)
Sergeants 3 (1962)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

John Ford
John Ford
(5 films)
Cliff Lyons
Cliff Lyons
(6 films)
Irwin Allen
Irwin Allen
(4 films)
John Wayne
John Wayne
(6 films)
Ward Bond
Ward Bond
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Winton C. Hoch (29 films)

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Cameraman

Necromancy
Necromancy (1972)
, 1h23
Directed by Bert I. Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Orson Welles, Pamela Franklin, Lee Purcell, Michael Ontkean, Harvey Jason, Susan Bernard
Roles Director of Photography
Rating46% 2.311132.311132.311132.311132.31113
A strange and sinister man, Mr. Cato (Orson Welles), wields extraordinary power in the small town of Lilith. The townsfolk indulge in weird rituals in their pursuit of necromancy, bring the dead back to life. Against this disturbing background a beautiful young girl, Lori (Pamela Franklin), becomes the human catalyst. She is married to one of Cato's workers and holds the key between life and death: what Cato and his followers have in mind is using Lori to bring back Cato's dead son.
The Green Berets, 2h22
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, John Wayne, Edgar Ray Kellogg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors David Janssen, John Wayne, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, George Takei, Luke Askew
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.8008752.8008752.8008752.8008752.800875
At Fort Bragg, cynical newspaper reporter George Beckworth (David Janssen) is at a Special Forces briefing about the American military involvement in the war in Vietnam. The briefing at Gabriel Demonstration Area (named for SGT Jimmy Gabriel, the first "Green Beret" soldier killed in Vietnam), includes a demonstration and explanation of the whys and wherefores of participating in the Vietnam War.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars, 1h50
Directed by Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure, Romance
Themes Space adventure films, Mars in film, Films based on Robinson Crusoe, Space opera
Actors Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin, Adam West
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.197953.197953.197953.197953.19795
Commander Christopher "Kit" Draper (Paul Mantee) and Colonel Dan McReady (Adam West) reach the Red Planet in their spaceship, Mars Gravity Probe 1. They are forced to use up their remaining fuel in order to avoid an imminent collision with a large orbiting meteoroid; they descend in their one-man lifeboat pods, becoming the first humans on Mars.
Sergeants 3, 1h52
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Poésie, Adaptation d'un poème
Actors Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Ruta Lee
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.950182.950182.950182.950182.95018
L'action se déroule à Medicine Bend, une bourgade sur les hauteurs montagneuses du Dakota. Attaquée par des Indiens, la personne chargée du télégraphe a le temps, avant sa mort, d'envoyer un message au fort McClelland. Le colonel Collingwood, le commandant du fort, envoie sur place une escouage dirigée par trois amis : les sergents Merry, Deal et Barrett. Un ancien esclave noir, qui souhaite s'engager dans l'U.S. Cavalry, les suit malgré l'interdiction qui lui en a été signifiée. Une fois arrivés à Medicine Bend, l'équipe ne trouve aucune trace des habitants et sont attaqués par les guerriers de Mountain Hawk.
Five Weeks in a Balloon, 1h41
Directed by Irwin Allen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Children's films
Actors Cedric Hardwicke, Red Buttons, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Fabian Forte, Richard Haydn
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.850992.850992.850992.850992.85099
The film begins with the flight of the balloon Jupiter, invented by Professor Fergusson (Cedric Hardwicke). In the unicorn-shaped gondola, the passengers Chiddingfold (Ronald Long) and Sir Henry Vining (Richard Haydn) scream in horror as the balloon rapidly descends, but the Professor remains calm as he planned for this to happen. He then signals the pilot Jacques (Fabian) to ascend the balloon, who explains how balloon is able to ascend and descend without the loss of gas or ballast. The balloon successfully lands and attracts a crowd, but Sir Henry and the other passenger are dissatisfied after the seemingly disastrous descent. Sir Henry, the president of the Royal Geographic Society, refuses to fund the Professor's plan to explore east Africa, while Chiddingfold leaves claiming he has an "appointment". The Professor seems out of financial backing for his plans, but an American journalist talks to Fergusson about having his nephew and star reporter Donald O'Shea (Red Buttons) as part of Fergusson's plan to explore east Africa.
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, 1h40
Directed by Irwin Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Children's films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling, Michael Ansara
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.9980652.9980652.9980652.9980652.998065
The new, state of the art nuclear submarine Seaview is on diving trials in the Arctic Ocean. The Seaview is designed and built by scientist and engineering genius Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret) (Walter Pidgeon). Captain Lee Crane (Robert Sterling) is the Seaview's Commanding Officer. One of the on-board observers is Dr. Susan Hiller (Joan Fontaine), studying crew-related stress. The mission includes being out of radio contact for 96 hours while under the Arctic ice cap, but the ice begins to crack and melt, with boulder-size pieces crashing into the ocean around the submarine. Surfacing, they discover fire burning in the sky. After the rescue of a scientist and his dog at Ice Floe Delta, Miguel Alvarez (Michael Ansara), the sub receives radio contact from Mission Director Inspector Bergan at the Bureau of Marine Exploration. He advises that a meteor shower pierced the Van Allen radiation belt causing it to catch fire, resulting in a world-threatening increase in heat all across the Earth. Nelson's on-board friend and scientist, retired Commodore Lucius Emery (Peter Lorre) concurs that it is possible. Bergan informs Nelson that the President wants him at a UN Emergency Scientific Meeting as soon as possible.
The Lost World, 1h37
Directed by Irwin Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Children's films
Actors Michael Rennie, Jill St John, David Hedison, Claude Rains, Fernando Lamas, Richard Haydn
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55% 2.753022.753022.753022.753022.75302
Professor Challenger (Claude Rains), a famed biologist and anthropologist, reports to the London Zoological Society that he has discovered living specimens of supposedly extinct animals, including dinosaurs, on an expedition to the Amazon Basin. When his colleagues dismiss his claims, he challenges the Society to mount another expedition to verify his story. Challenger and his companions travel to an isolated plateau, where they encounter prehistoric creatures and other hazards, and discover the legacy of a previous explorer that reveals the hidden past of one of their team. During a volcanic eruption, they escape from the plateau carrying the egg of a Tyrannosaurus rex. The egg hatches when it is dropped by accident, and Professor Challenger decides to take the infant dinosaur back to London with them.
This Earth Is Mine, 2h5
Directed by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire, Claude Rains, Kent Smith, Anna Lee
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.1463553.1463553.1463553.1463553.146355
In 1931, Lon Rambeau sends his daughter Elizabeth Rambeau away from London to Napa Valley, California to visit Lon's father Philippe Rambeau and Phillipe's daughter, Martha Fairon, owners of vast vineyards and a grand estate. Philippe and Martha welcome Elizabeth lavishly, then reveal the real reason for the celebration of her arrival: her betrothal, unknown to Elizabeth, between her and her cousin, Andre Swann. John Rambeau, obviously disliked by matriarch Martha, arrives at the party, flirts with Elizabeth and leads her out into the vineyards, where he mischievously reveals Rambeau family secrets: Philippe uses marriage to tighten the family hold on the valley; Phillipe's daughter, Martha and daughter-in-law, Charlotte (John's mother) had been married off to local landowners in order to increase the vineyard holdings — Phillipe now wants to marry off granddaughter Elizabeth to Andre in order to absorb the Stag's Leap District vineyard holdings in the Napa Valley. (also, Andre had wanted to become a priest, but was not allowed to do so, and had been forced to join the family business).
The Big Circus, 1h48
Directed by Irwin Allen, Joseph M. Newman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Circus films
Actors Victor Mature, Red Buttons, Rhonda Fleming, Vincent Price, Kathryn Crosby, Peter Lorre
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.100323.100323.100323.100323.10032
Hank Whirling (Mature) needs a bank loan to keep his Whirling Circus going. He gets it from a stuffy New York City bank, but only on the condition he take along accountant Randy Sherman (Red Buttons) and publicist Helen Harrison (Rhonda Fleming) to help the circus turn a profit.
Darby O'Gill and the Little People, 1h33
Directed by Robert Stevenson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Albert Sharpe, Janet Munro, Sean Connery, Estelle Winwood, Kieron Moore, Denis O'Dea
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.546223.546223.546223.546223.54622
Darby O'Gill (Albert Sharpe) is the aging caretaker of Lord Fitzpatrick's (Walter Fitzgerald) estate in the small Irish town of Rathcullen, where he lives in the gatehouse with his lovely, almost grown, daughter Katie (Janet Munro). Darby spends most of his time in the town pub, regaling his friends with tales of his attempts to catch the leprechauns, in particular, their king, Brian Connors (Jimmy O'Dea).
The Young Land, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Patrick Wayne, Dennis Hopper, Yvonne Craig, Dan O'Herlihy, Ken Curtis, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54% 2.7178952.7178952.7178952.7178952.717895
In 1848, after the end of the Mexican–American War and with the advent of California statehood, an American gunslinger named Hatfield Carnes (Dennis Hopper) kills a Mexican man in California. He is arrested for the murder by Jim Ellison (Patrick Wayne), a former United States marine and now sheriff with neither a gun nor a badge. Appointed by prominent local businessman and politico Don Roberto de la Madrid (Roberto De La Madrid), Ellison has designs on de la Madrid's spoiled daughter, Elena (Yvonne Craig). By the book Judge Millard Isham (Dan O'Herlihy) arrives in town with Deputy Marshal Ben Stroud (Cliff Ketchum) to conduct the trial. Wanted tough guy Lee Hearn (Ken Curtis) has problems of his own with the law, but is willing to help Ellison as a deputy. Carnes is then placed on trial in the new Mexican Cession territory with the Hispanic populace waiting to learn if American justice will convict Carnes.
The Missouri Traveler, 1h43
Directed by Jerry Hopper
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about horses
Actors Brandon deWilde, Lee Marvin, Gary Merrill, Paul Ford, Ken Curtis, Kathleen Freeman
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.145323.145323.145323.145323.14532
Brandon deWilde leads a cast lengthy in character actors playing subdued Biarn Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum bound for Florida in the post-World War I time period of 1926. He receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobias Brown (Lee Marvin). There, after an episode in the town square involving most of the populace, he meets crusty newspaper man Doyle Magee (Gary Merrill).
The Searchers, 1h58
Directed by John Ford, Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, Ward Bond, John Qualen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating77% 3.899153.899153.899153.899153.89915
It is 1868. Ethan Edwards (Wayne) returns after an eight-year absence to the home of his brother Aaron (Walter Coy) in the wilderness of West Texas. Ethan fought in the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, and in the three years since that war ended he apparently fought in the Mexican revolutionary war as well. He has a large quantity of gold coins of uncertain origin in his possession, and a medal from the Mexican campaign that he gives to his eight-year-old niece, Debbie (played as a child by Lana Wood). As a former Confederate soldier, he is asked to take an oath of allegiance to the Texas Rangers; he refuses. As Rev. Captain Samuel Clayton (Ward Bond) remarks, Ethan "fits a lot of descriptions".
Mister Roberts, 2h3
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, John Ford, Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Films based on plays, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell, Jack Lemmon, Betsy Palmer, Ward Bond
Roles Director of Photography
Rating75% 3.7970553.7970553.7970553.7970553.797055
In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean. The executive officer/cargo chief, Lieutenant Junior Grade Douglas A. "Doug" Roberts (Henry Fonda), tries to shield the dispirited crew from the harsh and unpopular captain, Lieutenant Commander Morton (James Cagney). Eager to join the fighting, Roberts repeatedly requests a transfer. Morton is forced by regulation to forward his requests, but refuses to endorse them, which means they are always rejected. Roberts shares quarters with Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver (Jack Lemmon). Pulver spends most of his time idling in his bunk and avoids the captain at all costs, so much so that Morton is actually unaware that the ensign is even part of the crew.
The Redhead from Wyoming, 1h17
Directed by Polly James
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Maureen O'Hara, Alex Nicol, Robert Strauss, Alexander Scourby, Gregg Palmer, Jack Kelly
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0497453.0497453.0497453.0497453.049745
The film begins with scenes of life in Wyoming Territory, where new settlers join the cattle business by finding stray, unbranded cattle, called "mavericks", on public land. The narrator explains that established ranchers use the so-called "maverick law" against the settlers, while "sharp-witted men" take advantage of the resulting conflict. After this introduction, Jim Averell (Bishop) is shown exhorting settlers to elect him governor to defend them against cattle barons such as Reece Duncan (Scourby). When Averell's speech is over, the famous stage performer Kate Maxwell (O'Hara) arrives with a group of showgirls. Averell has arranged for Kate to operate both a cattle-buying business and a saloon. Duncan warns Kate that he will kill anyone caught stealing cattle on his land, and Sheriff Stan Blaine (Nicol) warns her of an impending war over the cattle business.