Lee Garmes
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Won 1 Academy Award
Academy Awards 1 won
- 1932 Best Cinematography Won Shanghai Express
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Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978) was an American cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophüls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry Hathaway, whom he had met as a young man when the two first came to Hollywood in the silent era. He also co-directed two films with legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht: Angels Over Broadway and Actor's and Sin.
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Garmes first came to Hollywood in 1916. His first job was as an assistant in the paint department at Thomas H. Ince Studios, but he soon became a camera assistant before graduating to full-time cameraman. His earliest films were comedy shorts, and his career did not fully take off until the introduction of sound.
Garmes was married to film actress Ruth Hall from 1933 until his death in 1978. He is interred in the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Garmes was one of the earliest proponents of video technology, which he advocated as early as 1972. That year, he had been hired by Technicolor to photograph the short film Why, which was intended to test whether video was a viable technology for shooting feature films.
According to American Cinematographer magazine, "Although officially unaccredited, Lee Garmes photographed a considerable portion of Gone with the Wind. Many consider the famous railroad yard sequence among his finest cinematic efforts."
Garmes was one of many Hollywood veterans from the silent era interviewed by Kevin Brownlow for the television series Hollywood (1980).
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Scarface
Duel in the Sun
Jungle Book
Morocco
Caught
Nightmare Alley
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
The Desperate Hours
The Paradine Case
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
China Girl
Land of the Pharaohs
Dishonored
The Lusty Men
The Furies
Shanghai Express
The Fighting Kentuckian
Detective Story
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Forever and a Day
City Streets
Lady in a Cage
Man with the Gun
My Foolish Heart
The Big Fisherman
D-Day the Sixth of June
Since You Went Away
An American Tragedy
Love Letters
Call Her Savage
Waterfront
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Angels Over Broadway
Never Love a Stranger
Smilin' Through
Young Widow
Thunder in the East
The Show Off
Fighting Caravans
Actors and Sin
Disraeli
Whoopee!
My Friend Irma Goes West
Guest in the House
The Bottom of the Bottle
The Captive City
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
That's My Boy
Our Very Own
Lydia
Happy Anniversary
Flight for Freedom
The Big Boodle
Strange Interlude
Specter of the Rose
Misty
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