Joseph La Shelle

Director Of Photography

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Also Known As

Joseph W La Shelle, Joseph Lashelle, Joe Lashelle, Joe La Shelle

Birth Place

Los Angeles, California, USA

Born

July 09, 1901

Died

August 20, 1989

Biography

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Spent 14 years as a camera operator for Arthur Miller before graduating to director of photography in 1943. La Shelle excelled at sleazy, noirish compositions, doing outstanding work in the 1940s, with directors such as Otto Preminger and Henry King, and 60s, especially with Billy Wilder. He also shot several episodes of TV's "The Twilight Zone."...

Filmography

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80 Steps to Jonah (1969)

Director of Photography

Operation Heartbeat (1969)

Director Of Photography

Kona Coast (1968)

Director of Photography

Barefoot in the Park (1967)

Cinematographer

The Chase (1966)

Director of Photography

Seven Women (1966)

Director of Photography

Photos & Videos

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Les Miserables (1952) -- (Movie Clip) On The Rocks

Come To The Stable (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Sisters From France

Biography

Spent 14 years as a camera operator for Arthur Miller before graduating to director of photography in 1943. La Shelle excelled at sleazy, noirish compositions, doing outstanding work in the 1940s, with directors such as Otto Preminger and Henry King, and 60s, especially with Billy Wilder. He also shot several episodes of TV's "The Twilight Zone."

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

80 Steps to Jonah (1969)

Director of Photography

Operation Heartbeat (1969)

Director Of Photography

Kona Coast (1968)

Director of Photography

Barefoot in the Park (1967)

Cinematographer

The Chase (1966)

Director of Photography

Seven Women (1966)

Director of Photography

The Fortune Cookie (1966)

Director of Photography

Wild and Wonderful (1964)

Director of Photography

Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)

Cinematographer

Irma La Douce (1963)

Cinematographer

How the West Was Won (1963)

Director of Photography

A Child Is Waiting (1963)

Cinematographer

The Outsider (1961)

Director of Photography

The Honeymoon Machine (1961)

Director of Photography

All in a Night's Work (1961)

Director of Photography

The Apartment (1960)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

The Naked and the Dead (1958)

Director of Photography

The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

Director Of Photography

No Down Payment (1957)

Director of Photography

Crime of Passion (1957)

Director of Photography

The Bachelor Party (1957)

The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957)

I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

Director of Photography

The Abductors (1957)

Director of Photography

Fury at Showdown (1957)

Director of Photography

Run for the Sun (1956)

The Conqueror (1956)

Director of Photography

Our Miss Brooks (1956)

Director of Photography

Storm Fear (1956)

River of No Return (1954)

Director of Photography

Mister Scoutmaster (1953)

Director of Photography

My Cousin Rachel (1953)

Director of Photography

Dangerous Crossing (1953)

Director of Photography

Something for the Birds (1952)

Director of Photography

The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952)

Director of Photography

Les Miserables (1952)

Director of Photography

The Guy Who Came Back (1951)

Director of Photography

The 13th Letter (1951)

Director of Photography

Elopement (1951)

Director of Photography

Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951)

Director of Photography

Under My Skin (1950)

Director of Photography

Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950)

Director of Photography

The Jackpot (1950)

Director of Photography

Mister 880 (1950)

Director of Photography

Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

Come to the Stable (1949)

Director of Photography

Everybody Does It (1949)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Deep Waters (1948)

Director of Photography

Captain from Castile (1948)

Director of Photography

The Luck of the Irish (1948)

Director of Photography

Road House (1948)

Director of Photography

The Late George Apley (1947)

Director of Photography

The Foxes of Harrow (1947)

Director of Photography

Cluny Brown (1946)

Director of Photography

If I'm Lucky (1946)

Director of Photography

Claudia and David (1946)

Director of Photography

Fallen Angel (1945)

Director of Photography

A Bell for Adano (1945)

Director of Photography

Hangover Square (1945)

Director of Photography

Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945)

Doll Face (1945)

Director of Photography

The Eve of St. Mark (1944)

Director of Photography

Take It or Leave It (1944)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Bermuda Mystery (1944)

Director of Photography

Happy Land (1943)

Director of Photography

Here I Am a Stranger (1939)

Camera Operator

Submarine Patrol (1938)

Assistant Camera

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)

The Baroness and the Butler (1938)

Camera Operator

Black Sheep (1935)

It's a Small World (1935)

Camera Operator

Charlie Chan's Courage (1934)

Camera Operator

My Weakness (1933)

Camera Operator

Sailor's Luck (1933)

Camera Operator

The Last Trail (1933)

Camera Operator

The Man Who Dared: An Imaginative Biography (1933)

Hold Me Tight (1933)

Camera Operator

Me and My Gal (1932)

Camera Operator

Cimarron (1931)

Camera crew--Land rush scenes

Whispering Smith (1926)

Rocking Moon (1926)

Director of Photography

Life Events

1943

Debut as cinematographer with "Happy Land"

Photo Collections

How the West Was Won - Program Book

Here is the souvenir Program Book sold at Roadshow engagements for the 1962 epic in Cinerama, How the West Was Won.

Videos

Les Miserables (1952) -- (Movie Clip) On The Rocks Following a prologue truncating Victor Hugo, we meet Robert Newton as Javert enforcing regulations during panic amidships, and slaves Jean Valjean (Michael Rennie) and Genflou (Joseph Wiseman) performing a rescue, in Lewis Milestone's production of Les Miserables, 1952.

Come To The Stable (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Sisters From France Jumped by director Henry Koster from the idyllic village where they first arrived, the sisters (Loretta Young and Celeste Holm as Margaret and Scolastica), seeking land for their school, appear in the offices of a New England bishop (Basil Ruysdael), received by his aide (Regis Toomey), in Come To The Stable, 1949.

Marty (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I'm The Stocky One Unmarried butcher Ernest Borgnine (title character), in one of the scenes that doubtless won him his Academy Award, having grown alarmed over proposed changes in his domestic status, calls up a girl he hardly knows, Delbert Mann directing from Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay, in Marty, 1955.

Irma La Douce (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Stomach Of Paris A portion of Louis Jourdan's opening narration from the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond script, introducing the Rue Casanova, Shirley MacLaine (title character) and her "Mec" Hippolyte (Bruce Yarnell), in Wilder's Irma La Douce, 1963.

Irma La Douce (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Green Underwear Introduced by narration as an honest policeman, first scene for Nestor (Jack Lemmon), discovering the red-light district and it's leading citizen Shirley MacLaine (title character), in Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce, 1963.

Irma La Douce (1963) -- (Movie Clip) He Can Take Care Of Himself New-on-the-beat Paris cop Nestor (Jack Lemmon) has herded all the girls into the paddy wagon, unaware of the police sanction for prostitution, only Shirley MacLaine (title character) showing any sympathy, in Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce, 1963.

Irma La Douce (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Can I Take Your Stockings Off? Having bested her pimp in a comic fistfight, newly-fired ingenue policeman Nestor (Jack Lemmon) is invited by Shirley MacLaine (tite character) to her non-work Paris address, in Billy Wilder's Irma La Douce, 1963.

Marty (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Blind Date With A Dog Visiting the "Stardust Ballroom" in the Bronx, having grown desperate about his bachelor status, Ernest Borgnine (title character) meets callous "Herb," (Nick Brkch), whose treatment of Clara (Betsy Blair), whom we've just met, displeases him, in director Delbert Mann's Marty, 1955.

Marty (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I Have A Feeling About You Having unexpectedly hit it off with Clara (Betsy Blair), a schoolteacher dumped on a blind date whom he graciously rescued, bachelor butcher Ernest Borgnine (title character) winds up talking about his life and family, in his Academy Award-winning performance in Marty, 1955.

Marty (1955) -- (Movie Clip) They Get The Married The opening from director Delbert Mann and writer Paddy Chayefsky, Ernest Borgnine in his Academy Award-winning title role, character actress Minerva Urecal his customer, in Marty, 1955, co-starring Betsy Blair.

Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Getting Richer Consulting with just-demoted cop Dixon (Dana Andrews) and Klein (Bert Freed) ex-con Willie (Don Appell) leads us to the casino run by Scalise (Gary Merrill), where Texan Morrison (Harry von Zell), is entertained by Morgan (Gene Tierney) and her almost-ex husband Paine (Craig Stevens), in Otto Preminger's Where The Sidewalk Ends, 1950.

Where The Sidewalk Ends (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Worst Food In Town Cop Dixon (Dana Andrews) with witness Morgan (Gene Tierney), getting acquainted at the restaurant run by Martha (Ruth Donnelly), then taking a call from colleagues (Bert Freed, Karl Malden), in Otto Preminger's Where The Sidewalk Ends, 1950.

Laura - (Re-issue Trailer) A police detective (Dana Andrews) falls in love with the woman (Gene Tierney) whose murder he's investigating in Laura (1944), directed by Otto Preminger.

Chase, The - (Original Trailer) A convict's escape ignites passions in his hometown in The Chase (1966) starring Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.

Barefoot in the Park - (Original Trailer) Robert Redford and Jane Fonda star in Neil Simon's comedy Barefoot In The Park (1967) about newlyweds in New York.

Seven Women - (Original Trailer) Seven women staffing an isolated Chinese mission fight to survive a bandit attack in John Ford's last movie Seven Women (1966).

Mister 880 - (Original Trailer) A beloved old man is secretly Mister 880, an amateurish counterfeiter in Mister 880 (1950) starring Burt Lancaster as the agent out to get him.

Kiss Me, Stupid - (Original Trailer) A roadside waitress (Kim Novak) is set as bait for a barely disguised Dean Martin in Billy Wilder's Kiss Me, Stupid (1964).

Dangerous Crossing - (Original Trailer) When a bride (Jeanne Crain) goes on a ocean liner with her new husband, he goes into hiding, and she becomes the target of a murder conspiracy in Dangerous Crossing (1953).

80 Steps To Jonah - (Original Trailer) A young man (Wayne Newton) hiding from the law takes refuge in a summer camp for blind children in 80 Steps To Jonah (1969).

Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm - (Original Trailer) A radio producer finds the perfect Little Miss America in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938) starring Shirley Temple.

Naked and the Dead, The - (Original Trailer) A green lieutenant comes up against incompetent officers and a sadistic sergeant during World War II in The Naked and the Dead (1958), directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Aldo Ray.

Honeymoon Machine, The - (Original Trailer) Two sailors discover a way to beat the roulette tables in a Venice casino in The Honeymoon Machine (1961), starring Steve McQueen.

Fortune Cookie, The -- (Original Trailer) A crooked lawyer trumps up an insurance case for a cameraman injured at a pro football game in The Fortune Cookie (1966), directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

Family

Audrey Russell

Sister

Barbara Gardner

Daughter

Joseph W La Shelle Jr

Son

Bibliography

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