William H. Daniels

Infobox actor
name = William H. Daniels, A.S.C.


caption = Promotional Portrait
birthdate = December 1, 1901
birthplace = Cleveland, Ohio, USA
deathdate = June 14, 1970
deathplace = Los Angeles, California
restingplace = Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California
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occupation = Cinematographer
yearsactive = 1922-1970
spouse = Betty Lee Gaston
children = Two daughters and one son
influences = Erich von Stroheim
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academyawards = Best Black and White Cinematography 1949 "The Naked City"
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William H. Daniels, A.S.C. (December 1, 1901 - June 14, 1970) was an Academy Award-winning film cinematographer best known as Greta Garbo's personal lensman. He worked regularly with director Erich von Stroheim. [imdb name| id=0200125|name=William H. Daniels.]

Career

His career as a cinematographer extended fifty years from the silent film "Foolish Wives" (1922) to "Move" (1970), although he was an uncredited camera operator on two earlier films (1919 and 1920). He also was a producer of some films in the 1960s and was President of American Society of Cinematographers 1961-63. [ [http://www.cinematographers.nl/GreatDoPh/daniels.htm Steeman, Albert] . "Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers," "William Daniels page," Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2007. Last accessed: December 28, 2007.]

He was quoted as saying "I didn't create a 'Garbo face.' I just did portraits of her I would have done for any star. My lighting of her was determined by the requirements of a scene. I didn't, as some say I did, keep one side of her face light and the other dark. But I did always try to make the camera peer into the eyes, to see what was there."

Daniels was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1901. On his passing in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, William H. Daniels was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Filmography

* "Foolish Wives" (1922)
* "Merry-Go-Round" (1923)
* "The Merry Widow" (1924)
* "Helen's Babies" (1924)
* "Greed" (1924)
* "Women and Gold" (1924)
* "MGM Studio Tour" (1925)
* "Dance Madness" (1925)
* "Torrent" (1925)
* "The Boob" (1926)
* "Monte Carlo" (1926)
* "Money Talks" (1926)
* "Bardelys the Magnificent" (1926)
* "The Temptress" (1926)
* "Altars of Desire" (1926)
* "Flesh and the Devil" (1926)
* "Captain Salvation" (1927)
* "Tillie the Toiler" (1927)
* "On ze Boulevard" (1927)
* "Love" (1927)
* "The Latest from Paris" (1928)
* "Bringing Up Father" (1928)
* "The Actress/Trelawny of the Wells" (1928)
* "Telling the World" (1928)
* "The Mysterious Lady" (1928)
* "A Woman of Affairs" (1928)
* "Dream of Love" (1928)
* "A Lady of Chance" (1928)
* "Wild Orchids" (1928)
* "Queen Kelly" (1928)
* "The Trial of Mary Dugan" (1929)
* "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney" (1929)
* "Wise Girls/Kempy" (1929)
* "The Kiss" (1929)
* "Their Own Desire" (1929)
* "Anna Christie" (1930)
* "Montana Moon" (1930)
* "Strictly Unconventional" (1930)
* "Le spectre vert" (1930)
* "Romance" (1930)
* "If the Emperor Only Knew That" (1930)
* "Olympia" (1930)
* "The Great Meadow" (1930)
* "Inspiration" (1930)
* "A Free Soul" (1931)
* "Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)" (1931)
* "Mata Hari" (1931)
* "Lovers Courageous" (1931)
* "Grand Hotel" (1931)
* "As You Desire Me" (1932)
* "Skyscraper Souls" (1932)
* "Rasputin and the Empress" (1932)
* "The White Sister" (1933)
* "The Stranger's Return" (1933)
* "Dinner at Eight" (1933)
* "Broadway to Hollywood/Ring Up the Curtain" (1933)
* "Christopher Bean" (1933)
* "Queen Christina" (1933)
* "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" (1934)
* "The Painted Veil" (1934)
* "Naughty Marietta" (1934)
* "Anna Karenina" (1935)
* "I Live My Life" (1935)
* "Rendezvous" (1935)
* "Rose-Marie" (1935)
* "Romeo and Juliet" (1935)
* "Camille" (1936)
* "Personal Property" (1937)
* "Broadway Melody of 1938" (1937)
* "Double Wedding" (1937)
* "The Last Gangster" (1937)
* "Beg, Borrow or Steal" (1937)
* "Marie Antoinette" (1938)
* "The Shopworn Angel" (1938)
* "Three Loves Has Nancy" (1938)
* "Dramatic School" (1938)
* "Idiot's Delight" (1938)
* "Stronger Than Desire" (1939)
* "Ninotchka" (1939)
* "Another Thin Man" (1939)
* "The Shop Around the Corner" (1939)
* "The Mortal Storm" (1940)
* "New Moon" (1940)
* "So Ends Our Night" (1940)
* "Back Street" (1940)
* "Love Crazy" (1941)
* "They Met in Bombay" (1941)
* "Honky Tonk" (1941)
* "Shadow of the Thin Man" (1941)
* "Design for Scandal" (1941)
* "Dr. Kildare's Victory" (1941)
* "For Me and My Gal" (1942)
* "Keeper of the Flame" (1942)
* "Girl Crazy" (1943)
* "The Heavenly Body" (1943)
* "The Canterville Ghost" (1943)
* "Maisie Goes to Reno" (1944)
* "Sure Cures" (1946)
* "Lured" (1947) (aka "Personal Column")
* "Diamond Demon" (1947)
* "Brute Force" (1947)
* "The Naked City" (1948)
* "For the Love of Mary" (1948)
* "Family Honeymoon" (1948)
* "The Life of Riley" (1949)
* "Illegal Entry" (1949)
* "The Gal Who Took the West" (1949)
* "Abandoned/Abandoned Woman" (1949)
* "Three Came Home" (1949)
* "Woman in Hiding" (1950)
* "Winchester '73" (1950)
* "Deported" (1950)
* "Harvey" (1950)
* "Thunder on the Hill" (1950)
* "Bright Victory" (1951)
* "The Lady Pays Off" (1951)
* "Never Wave at a WAC" (1951)
* "When in Rome" (1951)
* "Glory Alley" (1951)
* "Pat and Mike" (1952)
* "Plymouth Adventure" (1952)
* "Thunder Bay" (1952)
* "The Glenn Miller Story" (1953)
* "The Far Country" (1953)
* "War Arrow" (1953)
* "Forbidden" (1953)
* "Strategic Air Command" (1954)
* "Six Bridges to Cross" (1954)
* "The Shrike" (1955)
* "Foxfire" (1955)
* "The Girl Rush" (1955)
* "The Benny Goodman Story" (1955)
* "Away All Boats" (1956)
* "The Unguarded Moment" (1956)
* "Istanbul" (1956)
* "Interlude" (1956)
* "Night Passage" (1956)
* "My Man Godfrey" (1957)
* "Voice in the Mirror" (1958)
* "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958)
* "Some Came Running" (1958)
* "A Stranger in My Arms" (1958)
* "A Hole in the Head" (1958)
* "Never So Few" (1959)
* "Can-Can" (1959)
* "Ocean's Eleven" (1960)
* "All the Fine Young Cannibals" (1960)
* "Come September" (1961)
* "How the West Was Won" (1961) [Segment "The Plains."]
* "Something's Got to Give" (1962) [Released as part of the "Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days" 37m.]
* "Billy Rose's Jumbo" (1962)
* "Dokonjo monogatari - zeni no odori" (1963)
* "Come Blow Your Horn" (1963)
* "The Prize" (1963)
* "Robin and the 7 Hoods" (1964)
* "Von Ryan's Express" (1965)
* "Marriage on the Rocks" (1965)
* "Assault on a Queen" (1966)
* "In Like Flint" (1966)
* "Valley of the Dolls" (1967)
* "The Impossible Years" (1968)
* "Marlowe" (1968)
* "The Maltese Bippy" (1969)
* "Move" (1970

Awards

Wins
* Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, for "The Naked City"; 1949.

Nominated
* Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, for "Anna Christie,"; 1930.
* Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Color, for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"; 1959.
* Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Color, "How the West Was Won" (1962); shared with: Milton R. Krasner, Charles Lang, Joseph LaShelle; 1964.

References

External links

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* [http://www.filmreference.com/Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ch-De/Daniels-William-H.html William H. Daniels] at Film Reference.