Charles Lang

Charles Lang

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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.

Camera

2007

Sleuth

Director of Photography

1973

40 Carats

Director of Photography

1972

Butterflies Are Free

Director of Photography

1971

The Love Machine

Director of Photography

1971

Doctors' Wives

Director of Photography

1970

A Walk in the Spring Rain

Director of Photography

1969

Cactus Flower

Director of Photography

1969

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Director of Photography

1967

Wait Until Dark

Director of Photography

1967

Hotel

Director of Photography

1966

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

Director of Photography

1966

How to Steal a Million

Director of Photography

1966

Inside Daisy Clover

Director of Photography

1964

Sex and the Single Girl

Director of Photography

1964

Father Goose

Director of Photography

1964

Paris When It Sizzles

Director of Photography

1963

Charade

Director of Photography

1963

The Wheeler Dealers

Director of Photography

1963

Critic's Choice

Director of Photography

1962

How the West Was Won

Director of Photography

1961

Blue Hawaii

Director of Photography

1961

Summer and Smoke

Director of Photography

1961

One-Eyed Jacks

Director of Photography

1960

The Facts of Life

Director of Photography

1960

The Magnificent Seven

Director of Photography

1960

Strangers When We Meet

Director of Photography

1959

Last Train from Gun Hill

Director of Photography

1959

Some Like It Hot

Director of Photography

1958

Separate Tables

Director of Photography

1958

The Matchmaker

Director of Photography

1957

Wild Is the Wind

Director of Photography

1957

Loving You

Director of Photography

1957

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Director of Photography

1956

The Rainmaker

Director of Photography

1956

The Solid Gold Cadillac

Director of Photography

1956

Autumn Leaves

Director of Photography

1955

Queen Bee

Director of Photography

1955

The Man from Laramie

Director of Photography

1955

Female on the Beach

Director of Photography

1955

The Long Gray Line

Director of Photography

1954

Phffft

Director of Photography

1954

Sabrina

Director of Photography

1954

It Should Happen to You

Director of Photography

1953

The Big Heat

Director of Photography

1953

Salome

Director of Photography

1952

Sudden Fear

Director of Photography

1952

The Atomic City

Director of Photography

1951

Red Mountain

Director of Photography

1951

Ace in the Hole

Director of Photography

1951

The Mating Season

Director of Photography

1950

Branded

Director of Photography

1950

September Affair

Director of Photography

1949

Rope of Sand

Director of Photography

1948

Miss Tatlock's Millions

Director of Photography

1948

A Foreign Affair

Director of Photography

1947

Desert Fury

Director of Photography

1947

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Director of Photography

1946

Blue Skies

Director of Photography

1945

The Stork Club

Director of Photography

1944

Here Come the Waves

Director of Photography

1944

I Love a Soldier

Director of Photography

1944

The Uninvited

Director of Photography

1943

So Proudly We Hail

Director of Photography

1943

No Time for Love

Director of Photography

1942

Are Husbands Necessary?

Director of Photography

1942

The Lady Has Plans

Director of Photography

1941

Skylark

Director of Photography

1941

Sundown

Director of Photography

1941

Nothing But the Truth

Director of Photography

1941

The Shepherd of the Hills

Director of Photography

1940

Arise, My Love

Director of Photography

1940

The Ghost Breakers

Director of Photography

1939

The Cat and the Canary

Director of Photography

1939

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

Director of Photography

1939

Midnight

Director of Photography

1938

Zaza

Director of Photography

1938

Spawn of the North

Director of Photography

1938

You and Me

Director of Photography

1937

Tovarich

Director of Photography

1937

Angel

Director of Photography

1937

Souls at Sea

Director of Photography

1936

Desire

Director of Photography

1935

Peter Ibbetson

Director of Photography

1935

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Director of Photography

1934

She Loves Me Not

Director of Photography

1934

We're Not Dressing

Director of Photography

1934

Death Takes a Holiday

Director of Photography

1933

Cradle Song

Director of Photography

1933

Gambling Ship

Director of Photography

1933

She Done Him Wrong

Director of Photography

1932

A Farewell to Arms

Director of Photography

1932

Devil and the Deep

Director of Photography

1931

Unfaithful

Director of Photography

1930

Tom Sawyer

Director of Photography

1930

For the Defense

Director of Photography

1930

Sarah and Son

Director of Photography

1930

Street of Chance

Director of Photography

1930

Seven Days Leave

Director of Photography

1930

Behind the Make-Up

Director of Photography

1928

The Shopworn Angel

Director of Photography

Acting

Crew

1927

Ritzy

Cinematography

Infos

Full Name
Charles Lang
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
3/27/1902
Date of Death
4/3/1998
Also Known As

Charles Bryant Lang

The Professor

Charles Lang, Jr.

Charles B. Lang, Jr.

Charles Bryant Lang, Jr.