Joseph MacDonald

Joseph MacDonald (* December 15, 1906 in Mexico City; † May 26, 1968 in Woodland Hills, actually Joseph Patrick MacDonald ) was an American cinematographer.

Life

MacDonald attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles before he came to the film during the 1920s. There he worked first as an assistant and later as an assistant cameraman, director of photography until he was in the 1940s. MacDonald was three times nominated for an Oscar. In 1958 he received a nomination for The Young Lions, 1960 for Pepe - What can already cost 1966 for gunboat on the Yangtze Kiang - the world.

MacDonald, who was standing up to his life behind the camera, working with director Henry Hathaway together at Niagara, password, 777, enemy in the dark and fourteen hours. For Edward Dmytryk MacDonald did the camera work on such films as The broken lance, Warlock, Alvarez Kelly and The 27th Floor. With Sam Fuller MacDonald turned the thriller police intervenes, the submarine thriller Inferno, both with Richard Widmark in the lead role, and the gangster film Tokyo Story. In Elia Kazan film Panic in the Streets, 1950 MacDonald did the camera work, as well as in John Huston's The Dead List, 1963. The last camera work MacDonalds was the Western Mackenna's Gold. With the film's director, J. Lee Thompson, MacDonald had worked together at Taras Bulba 1962 Kings of the Sun 1963.

Filmography (selection)

452236
de