Charles Lang
Personal Info
Known for
Camera
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-03-27
Day of Death
1998-04-03 (96 years old)
Place of Birth
Bluff, Utah, USA
Charles Lang
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Known For
Acting
(1992)
Visions of Light
as Self
Crew
(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)
How to Commit Marriage
Director of Photography
(1969)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Director of Photography
(1969)
Cactus Flower
Director of Photography
(1968)
The Stalking Moon
Director of Photography
(1968)
A Flea in Her Ear
Director of Photography
(1967)
Wait Until Dark
Director of Photography
(1967)
Hotel
Director of Photography
(1967)
The Flim-Flam Man
Director of Photography
(1966)
How to Steal a Million
Director of Photography
(1966)
Not With My Wife, You Don't
Director of Photography
(1965)
Inside Daisy Clover
Director of Photography
(1964)
Paris When It Sizzles
Director of Photography
(1964)
Sex and the Single Girl
Director of Photography
(1964)
Father Goose
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
(1962)
A Girl Named Tamiko
Director of Photography
(1961)
One-Eyed Jacks
Director of Photography
(1961)
Blue Hawaii
Director of Photography
(1961)
Summer and Smoke
Director of Photography
(1960)
The Magnificent Seven
Director of Photography
(1960)
Strangers When We Meet
Director of Photography
(1960)
The Facts of Life
Director of Photography
(1959)
Some Like It Hot
Director of Photography
(1959)
Last Train from Gun Hill
Director of Photography
(1958)
Separate Tables
Director of Photography
(1958)
The Matchmaker
Director of Photography
(1958)
Strange Witness
Cinematography
(1957)
Loving You
Director of Photography
(1957)
Wild Is the Wind
Director of Photography
(1957)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Director of Photography
(1956)
The Rainmaker
Director of Photography
(1956)
Autumn Leaves
Director of Photography
(1956)
The Solid Gold Cadillac
Director of Photography
(1955)
Queen Bee
Director of Photography
(1955)
Female on the Beach
Director of Photography
(1955)
The Man from Laramie
Director of Photography
(1955)
The Long Gray Line
Director of Photography
(1954)
Sabrina
Director of Photography
(1954)
It Should Happen to You
Director of Photography
(1954)
Phffft
Director of Photography
(1953)
The Big Heat
Director of Photography
(1953)
Salome
Director of Photography
(1952)
The Atomic City
Director of Photography
(1952)
Sudden Fear
Director of Photography
(1952)
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Director of Photography
(1951)
Red Mountain
Director of Photography
(1951)
Ace in the Hole
Director of Photography
(1951)
The Mating Season
Director of Photography
(1951)
Peking Express
Director of Photography
(1950)
September Affair
Director of Photography
(1950)
Copper Canyon
Director of Photography
(1950)
Branded
Director of Photography
(1950)
Fancy Pants
Director of Photography
(1949)
Rope of Sand
Director of Photography
(1949)
The Great Lover
Director of Photography
(1948)
My Own True Love
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
(1947)
Where There's Life
Director of Photography
(1946)
Cross My Heart
Director of Photography
(1946)
Blue Skies
Director of Photography
(1946)
Miss Susie Slagle's
Director of Photography
(1945)
The Stork Club
Director of Photography
(1944)
The Uninvited
Director of Photography
(1944)
I Love a Soldier
Director of Photography
(1944)
Here Come the Waves
Director of Photography
(1943)
No Time for Love
Director of Photography
(1943)
True to Life
Director of Photography
(1943)
So Proudly We Hail
Director of Photography
(1942)
The Lady Has Plans
Director of Photography
(1942)
Are Husbands Necessary?
Director of Photography
(1941)
Nothing But the Truth
Director of Photography
(1941)
Skylark
Director of Photography
(1941)
Sundown
Director of Photography
(1941)
The Shepherd of the Hills
Director of Photography
(1940)
The Ghost Breakers
Director of Photography
(1940)
Buck Benny Rides Again
Director of Photography
(1940)
Women Without Names
Director of Photography
(1940)
Dancing on a Dime
Director of Photography
(1940)
Adventure in Diamonds
Director of Photography
(1940)
Arise, My Love
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)
You and Me
Director of Photography
(1938)
Spawn of the North
Director of Photography
(1938)
Zaza
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
(1935)
Mississippi
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)
A Bedtime Story
Director of Photography
(1933)
Gambling Ship
Director of Photography
(1933)
She Done Him Wrong
Director of Photography
(1933)
The Way to Love
Director of Photography
(1932)
A Farewell to Arms
Director of Photography
(1932)
Devil and the Deep
Director of Photography
(1932)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Director of Photography
(1931)
Caught
Director of Photography
(1931)
Once a Lady
Director of Photography
(1931)
The Vice Squad
Director of Photography
(1931)
Unfaithful
Director of Photography
(1931)
Newly Rich
Cinematography
(1930)
The Light of Western Stars
Director of Photography
(1930)
Street of Chance
Director of Photography
(1930)
Sarah and Son
Director of Photography
(1930)
For the Defense
Director of Photography
(1930)
Behind the Make-Up
Director of Photography
(1930)
Seven Days Leave
Director of Photography
(1930)
Anybody's Woman
Director of Photography
(1930)
The Right to Love
Director of Photography
(1930)
Tom Sawyer
Director of Photography
(1928)
The Shopworn Angel
Director of Photography