Lucien N. Andriot
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Born 1892-11-09
Died 1979-03-19
Paris, France
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Lucien Andriot ASC (1892-1979) was a prolific French-American cinematographer. He shot more than 200 films and television programs over the course of his career.
Born in Paris, Andriot began his career in France in 1909 working for Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset. His elder sister Josette Andriot was a French film actress, working for Jasset. He then came to the U.S. some time before 1914 as an employee of the Éclair American Company based in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
The outbreak of World War I drove a re-organization of foreign film-industry assets in Fort Lee, including the employees. Now working for the World Film Company, financed by Lewis J. Selznick and run by William A. Brady, Andriot became a member of a separate French-speaking unit within World Film. For about three years, Maurice Tourneur, George Archainbaud, Emile Chautard, and Albert Capellani worked together on films such as the 1915 version of Camille, including the teaching of Josef von Sternberg.
Andriot moved to Hollywood around 1920 and went to work for Fox. The cinematography of the early widescreen John Wayne western The Big Trail in 1930 is unfortunately not his work. It was the standard-looking 35mm version, shot in parallel alongside Arthur Edeson's ground-breaking "70mm Grandeur" version.
Andriot did show a long-standing affinity for French directors working in Hollywood, initially Maurice Tourneur, and later René Clair, Robert Florey, and Jean Renoir. In the 1930s and 1940s, Andriot worked principally on B pictures for major studios. He did some television work in the 1950s and early 1960s, and retired to Palm Springs, California.
Andriot is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.
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The Big Trail
And Then There Were None
The Southerner
The Strange Woman
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Dishonored Lady
Bird of Paradise
Captain Hurricane
Penthouse
The Diary of a Chambermaid
You Can't Have Everything
Home Town Story
Balaoo the Demon Baboon
Jitterbugs
La Vie de Bohème
Charlie Chan at the Opera
The Lady in Question
The Hairy Ape
Borderline
One Hour in Wonderland
They Came to Blow Up America
Hooray for Love
International Settlement
On the Avenue
Just Off Broadway
I'll Give a Million
Anne of Green Gables
Café Metropole
High School
On the Sunny Side
The Valiant
Earthbound
Johnny One-Eye
Golden Hoofs
Christina
Why Trust Your Husband?
The Crime Doctor
The Fighting Sullivans
Monte Cristo
Two Alone
Over My Dead Body
The Pride of the Clan
Help Wanted - Male
Topaze
The Life of Vergie Winters
The Gay Desperado
Straight Is the Way
New Orleans
Ride on Vaquero
Shame
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Before Dawn
Tom Butler
Westward Passage
Happy Days
Charter Pilot
The Primal Law
Prestige
The Spy
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