Bert Glennon
Bert Glennon ( born November 19, 1893 in Anaconda, Montana, † June 29, 1967 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American cinematographer.
Life
Bert Glennon began even before studying at Stanford studios to work at the Keystone and was after some years as a camera assistant in 1923, one of the responsible chief cameramen for the epic film The Ten Commandments. In the following years he worked several times together with the directors Josef von Sternberg and Ernst Lubitsch and proved to be particularly competent in the cinematic representation of faces. After the transition to talkies a long and successful collaboration with director John Ford began his versatility Glennon presented with the image design for several 3- D movies to the test.
At the Academy Awards in 1940, he was twice nominated in the category of Best Cinematography: Once along with Ray Rennahan for Drums Along the Mohawk in the Color area, as well as for Ringo in the area of black and white. For his work on Dive Bomber he received another Oscar nomination 1942.