Joseph LaShelle


Joseph LaShelle ASC was an American film cinematographer.
He won an Academy Award for Laura, and was nominated on eight additional occasions.

Career

LaShelle's first job in the film industry was as an assistant in the Paramount West Coast Studio lab in 1920. Instead of going to college as planned, he remained in the film industry after a promotion to supervisor of the printing department.
In 1925, Charles G. Clarke convinced him he should be a cameraman. He went to work with Clarke and after three months he was promoted to second cameraman, and he worked for various cinematographers at the Hollywood Metropolitan Studios. LaShelle was transferred from Metropolitan to Pathé where he began a 14-year association with Arthur C. Miller. He later went with Miller to Fox Films.
After working as a camera operator on Fox productions such as How Green Was My Valley and The Song of Bernadette, he was promoted and became a cinematographer in 1943. He was a member of the A.S.C.
Some of his well-known works are the film noirs: Laura, for which he won an Oscar; Fallen Angel ; and Road House. He is remembered for his work with Otto Preminger and Billy Wilder.

Filmography

Whispering Smith Rocking Moon The Flame of the Yukon The Bermuda Mystery Happy Land The Eve of St. Mark Take It or Leave It Laura Thunderhead - Son of Flicka Doll Face Fallen Angel A Bell for Adano Hangover Square Claudia and David If I'm Lucky Cluny Brown The Late George Apley The Foxes of Harrow Captain from Castile Road House The Luck of the Irish Deep Waters The Fan Everybody Does It Come to the Stable Mother Didn't Tell Me The Jackpot Mister 880 Where the Sidewalk Ends Under My Skin Elopement The Guy Who Came Back The 13th Letter Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell My Cousin Rachel Les Misérables Something for the Birds The Outcasts of Poker Flat Dangerous Crossing Mister Scoutmaster River of No Return Marty The Abductors Storm Fear Run for the Sun The Conqueror Our Miss Brooks No Down Payment The Bachelor Party Crime of Passion The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown I Was a Teenage Werewolf Fury at Showdown The Naked and the Dead The Long, Hot Summer Career The Apartment The Outsider The Honeymoon Machine All in a Night's Work How the West Was Won Irma la Douce A Child Is Waiting Kiss Me, Stupid Wild and Wonderful The Fortune Cookie The Chase 7 Women Barefoot in the Park Kona Coast 80 Steps to Jonah
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Television

LaShelle also worked in television, such as the first episode of The Twilight Zone in 1959.

Accolades

Wins
Nominations