Russell Harlan

Director Of Photography

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Also Known As

Russ Harlan, Russell B Harlan

Birth Place

Los Angeles, California, USA

Born

September 16, 1903

Died

February 28, 1974

Biography

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Outstanding cinematographer whose visual flair bolstered numerous routine westerns before he shot Lewis Milestone's "A Walk in the Sun" (1945), the first in a series of more distinguished productions for directors such as Howard Hawks ("Red River" 1948) and Richard Mulligan ("To Kill a Mockingbird" 1962). Harlan's long, hand-held shot from the back of a car during the bank hold-up in "Gu...

Filmography

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Darling Lili (1970)

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Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

Addl Photographer (see note)

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The Great Race (1965)

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Quick, Before It Melts (1965)

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Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Big Girl Now

Sunrise At Campobello (1960) -- (Movie Clip) None Of Your Amiable Chatter

Biography

Outstanding cinematographer whose visual flair bolstered numerous routine westerns before he shot Lewis Milestone's "A Walk in the Sun" (1945), the first in a series of more distinguished productions for directors such as Howard Hawks ("Red River" 1948) and Richard Mulligan ("To Kill a Mockingbird" 1962). Harlan's long, hand-held shot from the back of a car during the bank hold-up in "Gun Crazy" (1949) was a remarkable precursor of the New Wave style which would emerge ten years later.

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Darling Lili (1970)

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

Addl Photographer (see note)

Director of Photography

The Great Race (1965)

Director of Photography

Quick, Before It Melts (1965)

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Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)

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Dear Heart (1964)

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A Gathering of Eagles (1963)

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Director of Photography

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

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The Spiral Road (1962)

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Pollyanna (1960)

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Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

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Operation Petticoat (1959)

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Rio Bravo (1959)

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Day of the Outlaw (1959)

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King Creole (1958)

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Run Silent Run Deep (1958)

Something of Value (1957)

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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Director of Photography

This Could Be the Night (1957)

Director of Photography

Lust for Life (1956)

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The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)

Director of Photographer, Japan

The Last Hunt (1956)

Director of Photography

Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

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Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

Ruby Gentry (1953)

The Big Sky (1952)

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The Ring (1952)

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The Kangaroo Kid (1951)

The Man Who Cheated Himself (1951)

The Thing from Another World (1951)

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Gun Crazy (1950)

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Southside 1-1000 (1950)

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Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950)

I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

Bad Men of Tombstone (1949)

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Four Faces West (1948)

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Red River (1948)

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A Walk in the Sun (1946)

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Texas Masquerade (1944)

Mystery Man (1944)

Forty Thieves (1944)

Lumberjack (1944)

Buckskin Frontier (1943)

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Riders of the Deadline (1943)

Border Patrol (1943)

Leather Burners (1943)

False Colors (1943)

Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)

Colt Comrades (1943)

The Kansan (1943)

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Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943)

The Woman of the Town (1943)

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Lost Canyon (1942)

Silver Queen (1942)

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American Empire (1942)

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Undercover Man (1942)

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942)

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Pirates on Horseback (1941)

Border Vigilantes (1941)

Twilight on the Trail (1941)

Doomed Caravan (1941)

Secret of the Wastelands (1941)

Stick to Your Guns (1941)

In Old Colorado (1941)

The Parson of Panamint (1941)

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Wide Open Town (1941)

Outlaws of the Desert (1941)

The Round Up (1941)

Director of Photography

Riders of the Timberline (1941)

Three Men from Texas (1940)

Hidden Gold (1940)

Cherokee Strip (1940)

The Showdown (1940)

Santa Fe Marshal (1940)

Knights of the Range (1940)

The Light of Western Stars (1940)

Stagecoach War (1940)

South of Pago Pago (1940)

Background Photographer

Silver on the Sage (1939)

Law of the Pampas (1939)

The Renegade Trail (1939)

The Llano Kid (1939)

Range War (1939)

Heritage of the Desert (1939)

Heart of Arizona (1938)

The Mysterious Rider (1938)

Pride of the West (1938)

Sunset Trail (1938)

Cassidy of Bar 20 (1938)

The Frontiersmen (1938)

Partners of the Plains (1938)

Bar 20 Justice (1938)

In Old Mexico (1938)

Rustler's Valley (1937)

North of the Rio Grande (1937)

Texas Trail (1937)

Hopalong Rides Again (1937)

The Crusades (1935)

Assistant Camera

King Kelly of the U.S.A. (1934)

Assistant Camera

Manhattan Love Song (1934)

Assistant Camera

Monte Carlo Nights (1934)

Assistant Camera

Galloping Romeo (1933)

Assistant Camera

The Vice Squad (1931)

Assistant Camera

Addl Photographer

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Frontiersman (1938)

Cast (Short)

Milton Fox, Esq. (1964)

Life Events

1935

Feature debut, credited for photography, "Bar 20 Rides Again"

1937

Collaborated with director Leslie Selander on over thirty pictures from 1937-1944, beginning with, "Hopalong Rides Again"

1944

Final film collaboration with Selander, "Lumberjack"

1948

First worked with Howard Hawks, "Red River"

1962

Served as cinematographer on the Oscar winning film, "To Kill a Mockingbird"

1964

Final collaboration with Howard Hawks, "Man's Favorite Sport?"

1970

Final feature, "Darling Lili"

Videos

Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Big Girl Now Money scenes, as San Francisco police detective Ed (Lee J. Cobb) arrives to calm down his wealthy married lover Lois (Jane Wyatt), who rightly suspects her husband (Harlan Warde), despite having left for the airport, is plotting to kill her, violence and quick thinking ensuing, in The Man Who Cheated Himself, 1951.

Sunrise At Campobello (1960) -- (Movie Clip) None Of Your Amiable Chatter Eleanor (Greer Garson) with local doctor (Frank Ferguson) and family confidante Louis (Hume Cronyn) before he rejoins the mysteriously stricken Franklin (Ralph Bellamy), in the Roosevelt family drama Sunrise At Campobello, 1960.

Sunrise At Campobello (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Hard-Boiled Chicken Dig the vigor, as Franklin (Ralph Bellamy) and Eleanor (Greer Garson) manage their brood (Zina Bethune, Tim Considine et al) in writer-producer Dore Schary's hagiographic tale of the Roosevelt's, Sunrise At Campobello, 1960.

Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) He's Bought A Gun We’ve just met John Dall as eager new San Francisco homicide detective Andy Cullen, and Lee J. Cobb as his brother Ed, who’ll be supervising him, and who offers his wedding gift, then phones his anxious married mistress Lois (Jane Wyatt), having deduced that she called earlier, then meets the fianceè Janet (Lisa Howard), early in The Man Who Cheated Himself, 1951.

Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Looking For Green Coupes Rare location shots of the old toll booth at the Golden Gate Bridge, from producer Jack M. Warner and director Felix E. Feist, as detective Cullen (Lee J. Cobb), who’s just moved the body of her lover’s husband, whom she shot, to the airport, talks with a patrolman (Bud Wolfe) about his also-cop younger brother, The Man Who Cheated Himself, 1951.

Man Who Cheated Himself, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Forget To Change Your Will No fooling around in the opening, Harlan Warde as San Franciscan Howard looks to be plotting a crime, and we’re given reason to think it will involve his wife Lois (Jane Wyatt), who intrudes, Felix E. Feist directing, in Columbia’s The Man Who Cheated Himself, 1951, starring Lee J. Cobb, restored in 2018 by Eddie Muller’s Film Noir Foundation.

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) -- (Movie Clip) Squirrels And Rabbits Young Walter (Steve Condit) is a guest at dinner after a schoolyard scrap with Scout (Mary Badham), Atticus (Gregory Peck) and Jem (Phillip Alford) joining conversation, in To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962, from Harper Lee's novel and Horton Foote's screenplay.

Great Race, The (1965) -- (Movie Clip) The Great Leslie Opening scenes from director Blake Edwards, establishing his live-action cartoon approach, Tony Curtis introduced as "The Great Leslie," Jack Lemmon as his rival "Professor Fate," Peter Falk his aide Max, in The Great Race, 1965.

Great Race, The (1965) -- (Movie Clip) I Never Mix My Pies Jack Lemmon in two roles, first as Professor Fate impersonating the prince, later as the prince, with the general (George MacReady), Leslie (Tony Curtis), Maggie (Natalie Wood), Max (Peter Falk), Hezekiah (Keenan Wynn) et al, in Blake Edwards' famous pie fight, from The Great Race, 1965.

Lust For Life (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Painting Is For Painters! One take, fellow artist Gaugin (Anthony Quinn) has just joined Vincent Van Gogh (Kirk Douglas) in Arles, in southern France, painting always their topic, in Vincente Minnelli's Lust For Life, 1956.

Thing From Another World, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Welcome To Our Igloo Banter by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer, as Capt. Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) has first encounters with Nikki (Margaret Sheridan) and Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite), at the research station in The Thing From Another World, 1951.

Gun Crazy (1949) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Sure Scare Him Off Fresh from their bank robbery in western gear, Annie (Peggy Cummins) and Bart (John Dall) switch to a nerd look for their escape from Hampton, in Joseph H. Lewis' Gun Crazy, 1949.

Hawaii - (Original Trailer) Missionairies to the Hawaiian Islands fight nature, disease and their own passions in Hawaii (1966) starring Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, and Richard Harris.

Witness For The Prosecution - (Original Trailer) A British barrister gets caught up in a couple's tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder in Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

Land of the Pharaohs - (Original Trailer) A scheming seductress (Joan Collins) plots to make herself queen of Egypt in Howard Hawks' Land of the Pharaohs (1955).

Dear Heart - (Original Trailer) Glenn Ford must decide between his fiancee and a woman he meets at a convention in Dear Heart (1964).

Darling Lili - (Original Trailer) A World War I flyer (Rock Hudson) falls for a beautiful enemy spy (Julie Andrews). Directed by Blake Edwards.

Blackboard Jungle - (Vic Morrow introduction trailer) Vic Morrow, who plays juvenile delinquent Artie West, introduces the trailer for Blackboard Jungle (1955).

To Kill a Mockingbird - (Original Trailer) A young girl grows up fast when her lawyer father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) starring Gregory Peck.

Rio Bravo - (Original Trailer) A sheriff (John Wayne) enlists a drunk (Dean Martin), a kid (Ricky Nelson) and an old man (Walter Brennan) to help him fight off a ruthless cattle baron in Rio Bravo (1959), directed by Howard Hawks.

Sunrise at Campobello - (Pan-and-scan trailer) After a bout with polio, future president Franklin Roosevelt fights to save his political career in the film biography, Sunrise at Campobello (1960), starring Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson.

Run Silent, Run Deep - (Original Trailer) Officers on a WWII submarine clash during a perilous Pacific tour in Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) starring Clark Gable & Burt Lancaster.

Big Sky, The - (Re-issue Trailer) Trappers lead an expedition against river pirates and Indians along the Missouri River in The Big Sky (1952), directed by Howard Hawks and starring Kirk Douglas and Dewey Martin.

Blackboard Jungle - (Original Trailer) An idealistic teacher (Glenn Ford) confronts the realities of juvenile delinquency in Blackboard Jungle (1955), directed by Richard Brooks.

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