Charles G. Clarke

Director Of Photography

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Also Known As

Charles Galloway Clarke, Charles Clarke, Charles [G.] Clarke

Birth Place

Potter Valley, California, USA

Born

March 19, 1899

Died

July 01, 1983

Biography

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Began his career as a portrait photographer in 1912. Clarke designed a battery-run camera motor which became the industry standard during the silent era, was a pioneer of matte photography techniques, and developed a reputation for location work under difficult conditions. He was nominated four times for an Academy Award....

Filmography

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Madison Avenue (1962)

Director of Photography

Return to Peyton Place (1961)

Director of Photography

Flaming Star (1960)

Director of Photography

Holiday for Lovers (1959)

Director of Photography

The Sound and the Fury (1959)

Director of Photography

Hound-Dog Man (1959)

Director of Photography

Photos & Videos

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Viva Villa! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Fiction Woven Out Of Truth

Viva Villa! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) This Is Your Country!

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"Professional Cinematography"

Charles Clarke

Biography

Began his career as a portrait photographer in 1912. Clarke designed a battery-run camera motor which became the industry standard during the silent era, was a pioneer of matte photography techniques, and developed a reputation for location work under difficult conditions. He was nominated four times for an Academy Award.

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Madison Avenue (1962)

Director of Photography

Return to Peyton Place (1961)

Director of Photography

Flaming Star (1960)

Director of Photography

Holiday for Lovers (1959)

Director of Photography

The Sound and the Fury (1959)

Director of Photography

Hound-Dog Man (1959)

Director of Photography

These Thousand Hills (1959)

Director of Photography

A Private's Affair (1959)

Director of Photography

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Photographer, Carlsbad Caverns seq

The Hunters (1958)

Director of Photography

The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)

Director of Photography

Stopover Tokyo (1957)

Director of Photography

The Wayward Bus (1957)

Director of Photography

Oh, Men! Oh, Women! (1957)

Director of Photography

Three Brave Men (1957)

Director of Photography

The Sun Also Rises (1957)

Photographer Spanish backgrounds

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

Director of Photography

Carousel (1956)

Director of Photography

Bus Stop (1956)

Addl Photographer

The Last Wagon (1956)

Addl Photographer

Violent Saturday (1955)

Director of Photography

Prince of Players (1955)

Director of Photography

The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955)

Aerial Photographer

The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)

Loc Director of Photographer

The Virgin Queen (1955)

Director of Photography

Prince Valiant (1954)

Loc Director of Photographer

Night People (1954)

Director of Photography

Black Widow (1954)

Director of Photography

Suddenly (1954)

Director of cine

City of Bad Men (1953)

Director of Photography

Destination Gobi (1953)

Director of Photography

White Witch Doctor (1953)

Loc Director of Photographer

Stars and Stripes Forever (1952)

Director of Photography

Red Skies of Montana (1952)

Director of Photography

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

2d unit Director of Photographer

Kangaroo (1952)

Director of Photography

Golden Girl (1951)

Director of Photography

I'll Get By (1950)

Director of Photography

Three Came Home (1950)

2d unit Director of Photographer

The Big Lift (1950)

Director of Photography

That Wonderful Urge (1949)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Slattery's Hurricane (1949)

Director of Photography

Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)

Director of Photography

The Iron Curtain (1948)

Director of Photography

Captain from Castile (1948)

Director of Photography

Bob, Son of Battle (1947)

Director of Photography

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Director of Photography

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Junior Miss (1945)

Director of Photography

Molly and Me (1945)

Director of Photography

Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945)

Director of Photography

Greenwich Village (1944)

Fill-in Director of Photographer

Ladies of Washington (1944)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Guadalcanal Diary (1943)

Director of Photography

Time to Kill (1943)

Director of Photography

Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)

Director of Photography

Wintertime (1943)

Director of Photography

It Happened in Flatbush (1942)

Director of Photography

Thru Different Eyes (1942)

Director of Photography

Careful Soft Shoulder (1942)

Director of Photography

A Gentleman at Heart (1942)

Director of Photography

Girl Trouble (1942)

Moontide (1942)

Director of Photography

Last of the Duanes (1941)

Director of Photography

Murder Among Friends (1941)

Director of Photography

For Beauty's Sake (1941)

Director of Photography

The Perfect Snob (1941)

Director of Photography

The Bride Wore Crutches (1941)

Director of Photography

Accent on Love (1941)

Director of Photography

Dead Men Tell (1941)

Director of Photography

Cadet Girl (1941)

Director of Photography

Romance of the Rio Grande (1941)

Director of Photography

Marry the Bo$$'$ Daughter (1941)

Director of Photography

The Cowboy and the Blonde (1941)

Director of Photography

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

2nd unit Photographer

Young As You Feel (1940)

Director of Photography

Yesterday's Heroes (1940)

Director of Photography

Viva Cisco Kid (1940)

Director of Photography

Street of Memories (1940)

Director of Photography

Frontier Marshal (1939)

Director of Photography

The Return of the Cisco Kid (1939)

Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1939)

Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

Pardon Our Nerve (1939)

Safety in Numbers (1938)

The Good Earth (1937)

Chinese Photographer

Stand-In (1937)

Director of Photography

Espionage (1937)

Man of the People (1937)

Under Cover of Night (1937)

The Thirteenth Chair (1937)

Moonlight Murder (1936)

Trouble for Two (1936)

The Garden Murder Case (1936)

All American Chump (1936)

The All-American Chump (1936)

Cinematographer

Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

The Winning Ticket (1935)

Shadow of Doubt (1935)

Woman Wanted (1935)

The Casino Murder Case (1935)

The Perfect Gentleman (1935)

Tarzan and His Mate (1934)

Viva Villa (1934)

Evelyn Prentice (1934)

The Cat and the Fiddle (1934)

Second Hand Wife (1933)

Hot Pepper (1933)

The Woman in Room 13 (1932)

Camera Operator

Too Busy to Work (1932)

Girls Demand Excitement (1931)

Annabelle's Affairs (1931)

Men on Call (1931)

Good Sport (1931)

Temple Tower (1930)

Director of Photography

So This Is London (1930)

Oh, For a Man (1930)

Director of Photography

Nix on Dames (1929)

Director of Photography

A Song of Kentucky (1929)

Director of Photography

Words and Music (1929)

Director of Photography

Masquerade (1929)

Director of Photography

The Exalted Flapper (1929)

Director of Photography

Not Quite Decent (1929)

Director of Photography

The Veiled Woman (1929)

Director of Photography

The Sin Sister (1929)

Four Sons (1928)

Director of Photography

The Red Dance (1928)

Director of Photography

Sharp Shooters (1928)

Director of Photography

Riley the Cop (1928)

Director of Photography

Plastered in Paris (1928)

Director of Photography

A Racing Romeo (1927)

Upstream (1927)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)

Director of Photography

Whispering Smith (1926)

Cinematog Camera

Rocking Moon (1926)

Director of Photography

Going Crooked (1926)

Director of Photography

One Minute to Play (1926)

The Top of the World (1925)

Director of Photography

Without Mercy (1925)

Director of Photography

Friendly Enemies (1925)

Director of Photography

Flaming Barriers (1924)

Director of Photography

The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1924)

Director of Photography

Tiger Love (1924)

Director of Photography

The Light That Failed (1923)

Director of Photography

The Half Breed (1922)

Director of Photography

Life Events

1919

First made lab assistant

1922

First film as co-director of photography (also editor), "The Half Breed"

1937

Directed short film "Pigskin Heroes"

1951

Co-shot (with John Boyle) Oscar ceremonies

Videos

Viva Villa! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Fiction Woven Out Of Truth Commanding prologue and screenplay by Ben Hecht, directed by either ultimately-dismissed Howard Hawks or credited Jack Conway, with Phillip Cooper as the young title character and Frank Puglia his dad, from MGM’s hit Viva Villa!, 1934, starring Wallace Beery.

Viva Villa! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) This Is Your Country! Writer Ben Hecht never thought much of Hollywood or screenplays in general, but had few peers for this kind of scene, with Wallace Beery as the bandit title character meeting the scholarly revolutionary Madero (Henry B. Walthall), in MGM’s Viva Villa!, 1934.

Viva Villa! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Pancho Villa Sent For Me Some scale as the revolution gathers pace, Wallace Beery (title character) rallies volunteers, visits sympathetic aristocrat Teresa (Fay Wray) and reporter Sykes (Stuart Erwin), then a montage, with writer Ben Hecht more successful than the rear-screen process shots, David Durand the bugle boy, inViva Villa! , 1934.

Viva Villa! (1934) -- (Movie Clip) The Law Of Pancho Villa's Court First appearance for Wallace Beery in the title role, his mob seizing a town after several peasants were convicted and hanged, with aide Sierra (Leo Carrillo), flipping the script on the ruling class (Nigel De Brulier the magistrate), in MGM’s Viva Villa!, 1934.

Suddenly (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Nothing Wrong Yet At this point, as far as we know Baron (Frank Sinatra) and posse (Paul Frees, Christopher Dark) might be legitimate, as they visit Ellen (Nancy Gates), son Pidge (Kim Carney) and Pops (James Gleason) before a still-secret presidential visit to a California town called Suddenly, 1954.

Suddenly (1954) -- (Movie Clip) She Doesn't Like Guns Opening scene, Sterling Hayden is Tod, the sheriff, Pidge (Kim Charney) the son of widowed Ellen (Nancy Gates) of whom, we learn, the sheriff is enamored, in a small California town for which the movie is named, Suddenly, the 1954 assassination drama co-starring Frank Sinatra.

Black Widow (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Let Her Give Better Parties Writer, producer and director Nunnally Johnson goes big city opening his big melodrama, introducing Van Heflin as Broadway producer Peter, Gene Tierney his wife, Ginger Rogers his party-throwing star, Reginald Gardiner her doormat husband, in Black Widow, 1954.

Man In The Gray Flannel Suit, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Mystery Picnic In a WWII flashback, married American Captain Rath (Gregory Peck) in Rome with buddy Caesar (Keenan Wynn) then with Italian girlfriend Maria (Marisa Pavan), just before shipping out for the Pacific theatre, in The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit, 1956, from the Sloan Wilson novel.

Man In The Gray Flannel Suit, The (1956) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Graveyard WWII vet Tom (Gregory Peck), who works for a non-profit, at home with wife Betsy (Jennifer Jones), after learning that grandma has squandered his inheritance, in Nunnally Johnson's The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit, 1956.

Black Widow (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Silly Imitation Of Dragnet Cop George Raft is questioning Broadway producer Peter (Van Heflin) and wife Iris (Gene Tierney) after the apparent suicide of a young woman who had been living in their apartment, when his star, their friend and neighbor Carlotta (Ginger Rogers) makes her entrance, in Black Widow, 1954.

Black Widow (1954) -- (Movie Clip) I Want A Bloody Mary Having flashed back to the arrival of impetuous Nanny (Peggy Ann Garner) in New York, she surprises her uncle (Otto Kruger) at home, then Claire and John (Virginia Leith, Skip Hoemeier) on the job, in writer-producer-director Nunnally Johnson's Black Widow, 1954.

Black Widow (1954) -- (Movie Clip) Secret Of Death Partial spoiler here, as Broadway producer Peter (Van Heflin) collects acrtress wife Iris (Gene Tierney) at the airport, not quite having mentioned that the ambitious young woman writer he's been helping is living in their apartment, in writer, producer and director Nunnally Johnson's Black Widow, 1954.

Snows of Kilimanjaro, The - (Original Trailer) Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner and Susan Hayward star in the Henry King's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's story The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952).

Tarzan And His Mate - (Original Trailer) Jane gives up friends, home...and most of her clothes in the sexy jungle adventure Tarzan and His Mate, 1934, with Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan.

Man of the People - (Original Trailer) After years playing villains, Joseph Calleia gets to be the hero as an immigrant studying law in Man of the People (1937).

Woman Wanted - (Original Trailer) An innocent woman (Maureen O'Sullivan) is chased by both gangsters and the police.

Bus Stop - (Original Trailer) An innocent cowboy kidnaps a small-time singer (Marilyn Monroe) with whom he's infatuated in Joshua Logan's Bus Stop (1956).

All-American Chump - (Original Trailer) A small-town math whiz is exploited by card sharks and hustlers in All-American Chump (1936).

Trouble For Two - (Original Trailer) Before he can marry, a European prince (Robert Montgomery) gets mixed up with a suicide club. Based on short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Evelyn Prentice - (Original Trailer) MGM playing up The Thin Man angle with Myrna Loy and William Powell, in the original trailer for the melodrama Evelyn Prentice, 1934, co-starring Rosalind Russell.

Green Grass of Wyoming - (Original Trailer) A roving stallion causes problems for Wyoming ranchers when he leads their blue-blooded racing mares off to join his wild horse herd in Green Grass of Wyoming (1948).

Viva Villa! - (Original Trailer) Wallace Beery stars in Viva Villa! (1934), the story of the bandit chief who led the battle for Mexican independence.

Carousel - (Original Trailer) A dramatic love story unfolds between a rough-talking, macho carousel barker, and a young, innocent mill worker in Carousel (1956).

Black Widow (1954) - (Original Trailer) A young stage hopeful (Peggy Ann Gardner), is murdered and suspicion falls on her mentor, a Broadway producer (Van Heflin) in Black Widow (1954).

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"Professional Cinematography"

Charles Clarke

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