Lee Garmes
Personal Info
Known for
Camera
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-05-27
Day of Death
1978-08-31 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Peoria, Illinois, USA
Lee Garmes
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978) was an American cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophüls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry Hathaway, whom he had met as a young man when the two first came to Hollywood in the silent era. He also co-directed two films with legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht: Angels Over Broadway and Actor's and Sin.
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Garmes first came to Hollywood in 1916. His first job was as an assistant in the paint department at Thomas H. Ince Studios, but he soon became a camera assistant before graduating to full-time cameraman. His earliest films were comedy shorts, and his career did not fully take off until the introduction of sound.
Garmes was married to film actress Ruth Hall from 1933 until his death in 1978. He is interred in the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Garmes was one of the earliest proponents of video technology, which he advocated as early as 1972. That year, he had been hired by Technicolor to photograph the short film Why, which was intended to test whether video was a viable technology for shooting feature films.
According to American Cinematographer magazine, "Although officially unaccredited, Lee Garmes photographed a considerable portion of Gone with the Wind. Many consider the famous railroad yard sequence among his finest cinematic efforts."
Garmes was one of many Hollywood veterans from the silent era interviewed by Kevin Brownlow for the television series Hollywood (1980).
Known For
Crew
(1978)
Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys
Producer
(1973)
Why?
Cinematography
(1968)
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
Director of Photography
(1966)
A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Director of Photography
(1964)
Lady in a Cage
Director of Photography
(1962)
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Director of Photography
(1961)
Misty
Director of Photography
(1959)
Happy Anniversary
Director of Photography
(1959)
The Big Fisherman
Director of Photography
(1958)
Never Love a Stranger
Director of Photography
(1957)
The Big Boodle
Director of Photography
(1956)
D-Day the Sixth of June
Director of Photography
(1956)
The Bottom of the Bottle
Director of Photography
(1956)
The Sharkfighters
Director of Photography
(1955)
Man with the Gun
Director of Photography
(1955)
Land of the Pharaohs
Director of Photography
(1955)
The Desperate Hours
Director of Photography
(1955)
Abdullah's Harem
Cinematography
(1953)
Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
Director, Director of Photography, Producer
(1952)
The Lusty Men
Director of Photography
(1952)
The Captive City
Director of Photography
(1952)
Thunder in the East
Director of Photography
(1952)
Actors and Sin
Co-Director, Director of Photography
(1951)
Detective Story
Director of Photography
(1951)
That's My Boy
Director of Photography
(1951)
Saturday's Hero
Director of Photography
(1950)
Our Very Own
Director of Photography
(1950)
My Foolish Heart
Director of Photography
(1950)
The Furies
Director of Photography
(1950)
My Friend Irma Goes West
Director of Photography
(1949)
Caught
Director of Photography
(1949)
Roseanna McCoy
Director of Photography
(1949)
The Fighting Kentuckian
Director of Photography
(1947)
The Paradine Case
Director of Photography
(1947)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Director of Photography
(1947)
Nightmare Alley
Director of Photography
(1946)
Specter of the Rose
Director of Photography, Co-Producer, Co-Director
(1946)
Duel in the Sun
Director of Photography
(1946)
The Searching Wind
Director of Photography
(1946)
Young Widow
Director of Photography
(1945)
Love Letters
Director of Photography
(1945)
Paris Underground
Cinematography
(1944)
Guest in the House
Director of Photography
(1944)
None Shall Escape
Director of Photography
(1944)
Since You Went Away
Director of Photography
(1943)
Flight for Freedom
Director of Photography
(1943)
Forever and a Day
Director of Photography
(1942)
China Girl
Director of Photography
(1942)
Footlight Serenade
Director of Photography
(1942)
Jungle Book
Director of Photography
(1941)
Lydia
Director of Photography, Associate Producer
(1940)
Beyond Tomorrow
Producer
(1940)
Angels Over Broadway
Director of Photography, Director, Co-Director
(1936)
The Conquest of the Air
Cinematography
(1935)
The Scoundrel
Director of Photography
(1935)
Once in a Blue Moon
Cinematography
(1934)
Crime Without Passion
Director of Photography, Director
(1933)
I Am Suzanne!
Director of Photography
(1933)
Shanghai Madness
Director of Photography
(1933)
Zoo in Budapest
Director of Photography
(1933)
Face in the Sky
Director of Photography
(1933)
My Lips Betray
Director of Photography
(1932)
Shanghai Express
Director of Photography
(1932)
Scarface
Director of Photography
(1932)
Smilin' Through
Director of Photography
(1932)
Strange Interlude
Director of Photography
(1932)
Dreaming Lips
Producer, Technical Supervisor
(1932)
Call Her Savage
Director of Photography
(1931)
City Streets
Director of Photography
(1931)
An American Tragedy
Director of Photography
(1931)
Kiss Me Again
Camera Operator
(1931)
Dishonored
Director of Photography
(1931)
Fighting Caravans
Director of Photography
(1930)
Spring Is Here
Director of Photography
(1930)
Whoopee!
Director of Photography
(1930)
The Song of the Flame
Director of Photography
(1930)
Morocco
Director of Photography
(1930)
Bright Lights
Director of Photography
(1930)
Lilies of the Field
Cinematography
(1929)
His Captive Woman
Director of Photography
(1929)
Disraeli
Director of Photography
(1929)
Say It with Songs
Director of Photography
(1929)
The Great Divide
Cinematography
(1929)
Love and the Devil
Director of Photography
(1928)
The Yellow Lily
Director of Photography
(1928)
The Barker
Director of Photography
(1927)
Rose of the Golden West
Director of Photography
(1926)
The Popular Sin
Director of Photography
(1926)
The Show Off
Director of Photography
(1926)
Crack O' Dawn
Cinematography
(1924)
The Lighthouse by the Sea
Director of Photography
(1924)
Find Your Man
Director of Photography
(1924)
Money to Burns
Cinematography
(1923)
Fighting Blood
Cinematography
(1923)
Fighting Blood
Cinematography
(1923)
Fighting Blood
Cinematography