William C. Mellor
William C. Mellor ( born June 29, 1903 in Missouri, † April 30, 1963 in Los Angeles ) was an American cinematographer.
Life
William C. Mellor worked for 30 years as a cameraman for the major Hollywood studios such as Paramount Pictures, MGM and 20th Century Fox. In the 1930s he turned B-movies. His breakthrough came in 1940 with The Great McGinty, directed by Preston Sturges. In 1942 he stood for The Road to Morocco ( Road to Morocco ), a film of the Road to ... series, behind the camera. In 1952, he won an Oscar for the camera work to A Place in the Sun by George Stevens. In 1958 he got for Peyton Place by Mark Robson his second Oscar nomination. In 1960 he received his second Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank, again directed by George Stevens. Mellor died during the filming of The Greatest Story Ever Told, again directed by George Stevens. Posthumously, he received another Oscar nomination in 1966. The cameraman Loyal Griggs continued his work on this film over and got together with him the Oscar nomination.