Joseph Macdonald

Director Of Photography

About

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Also Known As

Joe Macdonald, Joseph Patrick Macdonald, Joseph P. Macdonald

Birth Place

Mexico

Born

December 15, 1906

Died

May 26, 1968

Biography

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Black-and-white and color cinematographer, long with 20th Century-Fox. MacDonald worked often for Henry Hathaway ("Call Northside 777" 1948, "Niagara" 1953) and made notable contributions to films by Elia Kazan ("Viva Zapata!" 1951) and Samuel Fuller ("Pick Up on South Street" 1953), among others....

Filmography

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Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Director of Photography

A Guide for the Married Man (1967)

Director of Photography

Alvarez Kelly (1966)

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The Sand Pebbles (1966)

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Blindfold (1966)

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Director of Photography

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House Of Bamboo (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Why Cover For Them?

House Of Bamboo (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Sayonara Means Goodbye

Biography

Black-and-white and color cinematographer, long with 20th Century-Fox. MacDonald worked often for Henry Hathaway ("Call Northside 777" 1948, "Niagara" 1953) and made notable contributions to films by Elia Kazan ("Viva Zapata!" 1951) and Samuel Fuller ("Pick Up on South Street" 1953), among others.

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Mackenna's Gold (1969)

Director of Photography

A Guide for the Married Man (1967)

Director of Photography

Alvarez Kelly (1966)

Director of Photography

The Sand Pebbles (1966)

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Blindfold (1966)

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Director of Photography

The Reward (1965)

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The Carpetbaggers (1964)

Cinematographer

Flight From Ashiya (1964)

Director of Photography

Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)

Director of Photography

Where Love Has Gone (1964)

Cinematographer

Rio Conchos (1964)

Director of Photography

The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)

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Forty Pounds of Trouble (1963)

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Kings of the Sun (1963)

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Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

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Taras Bulba (1962)

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The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)

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Director of Photography

The Gallant Hours (1960)

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Director of Photography

The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958)

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Ten North Frederick (1958)

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The Young Lions (1958)

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Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)

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A Hatful of Rain (1957)

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The True Story of Jesse James (1957)

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Hilda Crane (1956)

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On the Threshold of Space (1956)

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Teenage Rebel (1956)

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Bigger Than Life (1956)

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House of Bamboo (1955)

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The View from Pompey's Head (1955)

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The Racers (1955)

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Broken Lance (1954)

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Hell and High Water (1954)

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Woman's World (1954)

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Pickup on South Street (1953)

Director of Photography

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

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Director of Photography

Director of Photography

White Witch Doctor (1953)

Fill-in Director of Photographer

What Price Glory (1952)

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Viva Zapata! (1952)

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O. Henry's Full House (1952)

Photographer of "The Last Leaf" and "The Gift of the Magi"

As Young As You Feel (1951)

Director of Photography

You're in the Navy Now (1951)

Director of Photography

Fourteen Hours (1951)

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Panic in the Streets (1950)

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Director of Photography

It Happens Every Spring (1949)

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Director of Photography

Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)

Director of Photography

Yellow Sky (1948)

Director of Photography

Call Northside 777 (1948)

Director of Photography

The Street with No Name (1948)

Director of Photography

Moss Rose (1947)

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Wake Up and Dream (1946)

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Behind Green Lights (1946)

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My Darling Clementine (1946)

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Director of Photography

The Dark Corner (1946)

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Captain Eddie (1945)

Director of Photography

Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)

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In the Meantime, Darling (1944)

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Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)

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The Big Noise (1944)

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Quiet Please Murder (1943)

Director of Photography

Wintertime (1943)

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That Other Woman (1942)

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Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942)

Director of Photography

The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)

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The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)

Director of Photography

Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)

Director of Photography

Western Union (1941)

Camera Operator

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)

Camera Operator

Thin Ice (1937)

Camera Operator

Everybody's Old Man (1936)

Dante's Inferno (1935)

Camera Operator

Rosa de Francia (1935)

Fotografía [Photographer]

Te quiero con locura (1935)

She Was a Lady (1934)

Camera Operator

All Men Are Enemies (1934)

Camera Operator

Sailor's Luck (1933)

Camera Operator

The Devil's in Love (1933)

Adorable (1933)

Second Hand Wife (1933)

Camera Operator

Hat Check Girl (1932)

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Too Busy to Work (1932)

Camera Operator

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932)

Camera Operator

Sob Sister (1931)

Art Department (Feature Film)

Prairie Chickens (1943)

Vagabond Lady (1935)

Assistant set dec

Film Production - Lighting/Electrical (Feature Film)

Ghost Stories (2018)

Life Events

Videos

House Of Bamboo (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Why Cover For Them? The tail end of the opening with the murder of an American non-comm in a Japanese train robbery, Brad Dexter as American MP Hanson interrogates civilian crook Webber (Biff Elliot) during surgery, which was surely the whole point for director Samuel Fuller, early in House Of Bamboo, 1955, Shirley Yamaguchi the wife in the photograph.

House Of Bamboo (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Sayonara Means Goodbye Gobbling up more Tokyo locations, director Samuel Fuller follows the American apparent thug Spanier (Robert Stack) into the real then-landmark (since demolished) Kokusai theater, though the rooftop scene is from the (nearby) Matsuma department store, then hunting for Shirley Yamaguchi, the wife of a murdered gangster, into a busy bath house, in House Of Bamboo, 1955.

House Of Bamboo (1955) -- (Movie Clip) When You Act Like A Hoodlum We remain far from clear on the nature of game being played by Robert Stack as Spanier, an American goon looking to shake down various Tokyo merchants, but he finally reaches Robert Ryan (his first scene, as Dawson, backed by Cameron Mitchell et al), full of attitude himself, in director Samuel Fuller’s shot-in-Japan House Of Bamboo, 1955.

House Of Bamboo (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Open, This Is A Military Supply Train Skewing convention even with his all-news exposition, Samuel Fuller, directing for producer Buddy Adler, Darryl Zanuck and 20th Century-Fox, begins the first American studio feature shot wholly in Japan, with violence and Mount Fuji, in House Of Bamboo, 1955, starring Robert Stack and Robert Ryan.

Broken Lance (1954) -- (Movie Clip) The Governor Wants To See You Emerging from a deep dark prison to 20th Century-Fox Cinemascope Technicolor, Robert Wagner as Joe Devereaux gets escorted (by John Epper) to the see the governor at the state capitol, stopping to gaze at a portrait of his dad (Spencer Tracy), opening Edward Dmytryk’s burly Western Broken Lance, 1954.

Broken Lance (1954) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Afraid Of No One But You Well into the flashback of the last days of the late Spencer Tracy (as rancher Matt Devereaux) we meet Katy Jurado, in one of her best roles, as his wife “Señora” Devereaux, in fact of Native American origin, dressing a wound discussing troubles with his older sons and their one shared, in director Edward Dmytryk’s Broken Lance, 1954.

Carpetbaggers, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) The Best Torture 1925 Nevada, widow Rina (Carroll Baker) with her ex, playboy heir Jonas (George Peppard), whom she dropped for his rich industrialist father who has suddenly died, talking settlement and sex with remarkable explicit language from the steamy Harold Robbins novel, lacking only modern profanity, in The Carpetbaggers, 1964.

Carpetbaggers, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Bring Me My Robe The notorious though mild nude scene, and a spike in the plot temperature, as brash Jonas (George Peppard) does exposition and moral trespass with Carroll Baker in her first scene as Rina, his gold-digging ex who married his suddenly-deceased industrialist father for money, early in The Carpetbaggers, 1964, from the Harold Robbins potboiler.

Carpetbaggers, The (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Evil Can Be Fun High-living widow Rina (Carroll Baker) now in Hollywood after adventures in Paris is visited by Nevada (Alan Ladd), now a silent movie star, but formerly aide-de-camp to the industrial-aviation family he worked for, inquiring about Jonas (George Peppard, not seen) her ex-flame, son of her sugar-daddy husband, now head of the firm, in The Carpetbaggers, 1964, from the Harold Robbins best-seller.

Sand Pebbles, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) I Wish I Had Two Hundred In a bordello in 1926 China, rude sailor Stawski (Simon Oakland) aims to have his way with Maily (Marayat Andriane, a.k.a. Emmanuelle Arsan), who’s supposed to be only a hostess, Frenchy (Richard Attenborough), supported by Jake (Steve McQueen), intervening, in The Sand Pebbles. 1966.

Sand Pebbles, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) Most China Sailors Headed up the Yangtze in 1926 to a new ship, Navy engineer Jake (Steve McQueen) with the only other young American on board, Vermonter Shirley (Candice Bergen), whom he met the previous evening, early in Robert Wise’s The Sand Pebbles, 1966, from the Richard McKenna novel.

Sand Pebbles, The (1966) -- (Movie Clip) It's His Rice Bowl Navy engineer Jake (Steve McQueen) acquaints himself with his new baby, the engine of the USS San Pablo, meeting his assistant Po-Han (Mako), then various shipmates, Simon Oakland as Stawski, Richard Attenborough as “Frenchy,” in 1926 China, in Robert Wise’s The Sand Pebbles, 1966.

Fourteen Hours - (Original Trailer) Richard Basehart threatens to jump off the ledge of his fourteenth floor hotel room in Fourteen Hours (1951).

Pickup on South Street - (Original Trailer) A pickpocket (Richard Widmark) accidently steals microfilm from the purse of a Communist spy in Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953).

Racers, The - (Textless Trailer) A man (Kirk Douglas) alienates everyone around him on his goal to become a world-famous race car driver in The Racers (1955).

Dark Corner, The - (Original Trailer) Secretary Lucille Ball helps her private eye boss when he's framed for murder in The Dark Corner (1946).

How to Marry a Millionaire - (Original Trailer) Three models pool their resources to rent a posh penthouse in hopes of snaring rich husbands in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) starring Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe & Betty Grable.

Carpetbaggers, The - (Original Trailer) George Peppard stars in the movie version of Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers (1964), loosely based on Howard Hughes' early Hollywood career.

Young Lions, The - (Original Trailer) A Jewish soldier (Montgomery Clift) faces anti-Semitism when he enlists to fight World War II in The Young Lions (1958).

O. Henry's Full House - (Original Trailer) Five stories reveal O. Henry's gift for the surprise ending with the help of five directors and a host of stars in O. Henry's Full House (1952).

Alvarez Kelly - (Original Trailer) A suave Mexican cattleman (William Holden) inadvertently gets involved in the Civil War in Alvarez Kelly (1966) co-starring Richard Widmark.

What Price Glory (1952) - (Black-and-white Trailer) A marine captain (James Cagney) and his top sergeant are assigned to take their company from a small village to the brutal reality of war in the trenches in John Ford's What Price Glory (1952).

Viva Zapata! - (Original Trailer) Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando) leads the peasants against a corrupt president in Viva Zapata! (1952).

True Story of Jesse James, The - (Original Trailer) Robert Wagner turns infamous outlaw in Nicholas Ray's The True Story of Jesse James (1957).

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