Archie Stout

Archibald " Archie " Stout ( born March 30, 1886 in Renwick, Iowa, † March 10, 1973 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American cinematographer.

Biography

Before Stout has worked in film, he worked in various jobs, such as as a manager of an inn, brokers and gamekeeper. In 1914 he became assistant camera Mack Sennett film in the studio and made ​​it after a few years for simple cameraman. He was at this time in several higher-profile productions such as Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. From 1928 he was then director of photography, mostly with second-rate Western productions. This changed after he René Clair's It Happened Tomorrow and Douglas Sirk had photographed the summer storms.

In 1947 he was engaged for John Ford, with whom he had worked in the 1930s, until the last man with John Wayne in the lead role. They both sat on the film continued to work. It was sometimes also happens that Stout photographed films with Wayne in the lead role, in which Ford is not directed.

His greatest success was Ford's The winner, for which he and Winton C. Hoch were awarded the Oscar for Best Cinematography. Stout is currently the only cameraman who was nominated as part of the second unit for both an Academy Award and won it.

His last film was William A. Wellman's There will always be days of 1954. A year later, he suffered a heart attack and retired from the film business. In his more than 30 year career, he worked for more than 130 films as a cameraman.

Filmography (selection)