John Alton

Görüntü Yönetmeni · 94 yaşında vefat etti · Sopron, Austria-Hungary

​John Alton A.S.C. (October 5, 1901 – June 2, 1996), born Johann Altmann, in Sopron/Ödenburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, was an American cinematographer. Alton won an Academy Award for the cinematography of An American in Paris (1951), becoming the first Hungarian-born person to do so. He photographed some of the most famous film noirs of the classic period. He started out in Los Angeles as a lab technician in the 1920s, later becoming a cameraman within four years.

Filmografi

1. Glorious Technicolor (1998)
2. Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006)
3. Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir (1995)
4. 'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris (2008)
5. Puerta cerrada (1939)
6. Mystery Street: Murder at Harvard (2007)
7. El hijo de papá (1933)