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Charles Lang

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Born March 27, 1902Died April 3, 1998 (96 years)
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Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (born March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – died April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California) was an American cinematographer.

Early in his career, he worked with the Akeley camera, a gyroscope-mounted "pancake" camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots. Lang's first credits were as co-cinematographer on the silent films The Night Patrol (1926) and The Loves of Ricardo (1927).

After completing Tom Sawyer for Paramount Pictures in 1930, he continued working at the studio for more than twenty years. The style of lighting he introduced in A Farewell to Arms became heavily identified with all of Paramount's films during the 1930s and 1940s, though he occasionally worked for other studios, for instance on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947).

In 1951, he began the second phase of his career, this time as a free-lance cinematographer.[1] His credits include The Big Heat (1953) with Glenn Ford and Lee Marvin, Sabrina (1954) with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, The Matchmaker (1958), Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon, The Magnificent Seven (1960) with Steve McQueen, One-Eyed Jacks (1961) with Marlon Brando, How the West Was Won (1962) in Cinerama, Charade (1963) with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), and Butterflies Are Free (1972).

Lang received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1991, for a career which included at least 114 feature films.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Charade
  • One-Eyed Jacks
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • The Ghost Breakers
  • The Cat and the Canary
  • You and Me
  • Nothing But the Truth

Known For

  • Some Like It Hot
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
  • One-Eyed Jacks
  • The Uninvited
  • Separate Tables
  • A Foreign Affair
  • A Farewell to Arms
  • How the West Was Won
  • Sudden Fear
  • Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
  • Butterflies Are Free
  • Queen Bee
  • So Proudly We Hail!
  • The Facts of Life
  • Sundown
  • Arise, My Love

Filmography

1999
The 71st Annual Academy Awards · as Self - Memorial Tribute
1995
American Cinema (TV Series) · as Self
1992
Visions of Light · as Self

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