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John Alton

John Alton
  • Name: John Alton
  • Birthday: 1901-10-05
  • Place of birth: Sopron, Austria-Hungary
  • Popularity: 2.471
Biography: ​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. He moved to France with Ernst Lubitsch to film backgrounds for The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) and ended up staying for one year heading the camera department of Paramount Pictures's Joinville Studios.... Read More

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Title Release date
'S Wonderful: Creating An American in Paris   as  Self (archival footage) 2008-09-16
Mystery Street: Murder at Harvard 2007-07-31
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light   as  Self 2006-07-18
Glorious Technicolor   as  Self (archive footage) 1998-12-07
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir   as  Self 1995-06-01