Russell Metty


Russell Metty, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer who won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color, for the 1960 film Spartacus.

Career

Metty's career began around 1925 as an assistant with Standard Film Laboratory, who was then hired by Paramount Pictures working in the camera department. He left for RKO in 1929. He became a regular cameraman at Universal Studios, and was a regular collaborator with the German film director Douglas Sirk, making eleven films altogether with Sirk.

Filmography

West of the Pecos Night Waitress They Wanted to Marry Behind the Headlines You Can't Beat Love Forty Naughty Girls Annapolis Salute Bringing Up Baby The Affairs of Annabel Mr. Doodle Kicks Off Annabel Takes a Tour Next Time I Marry The Great Man Votes The Girl and the Gambler The Spellbinder Bad Lands Everything's on Ice Three Sons That's Right – You're Wrong Curtain Call Irene Dance, Girl, Dance No, No Nanette A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob Sunny Weekend for Three Joan of Paris Four Jacks and a Jill Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost The Big Street The Falcon's Brother Army Surgeon Hitler's Children Forever and a Day The Sky's the Limit Behind the Rising Sun Around the World Tender Comrade Seven Days Ashore The Master Race Music in Manhattan Betrayal from the East It's in the Bag! The Story of G.I. Joe Pardon My Past Whistle Stop Breakfast in Hollywood The Stranger The Perfect Marriage The Private Affairs of Bel Ami Ivy Ride the Pink Horse A Woman's Vengeance Arch of Triumph All My Sons Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid You Gotta Stay Happy Kiss the Blood Off My Hands We Were Strangers The Lady Gambles Bagdad Buccaneer's Girl Sierra Curtain Call at Cactus Creek Peggy The Desert Hawk Wyoming Mail Katie Did It Up Front Little Egypt The Golden Horde The Raging Tide Flame of Araby The Treasure of Lost Canyon Scarlet Angel The World in His Arms Yankee Buccaneer Because of You Against All Flags Seminole It Happens Every Thursday Take Me to Town The Man from the Alamo Veils of Bagdad Tumbleweed Taza, Son of Cochise Magnificent Obsession Naked Alibi Four Guns to the Border The Sign of the Pagan Crashout Man Without a Star Cult of the Cobra The Man from Bitter Ridge There's Always Tomorrow All That Heaven Allows Miracle in the Rain Congo Crossing Written on the Wind Battle Hymn Mister Cory Man Afraid The Midnight Story Man of a Thousand Faces The Female Animal Touch of Evil A Time to Love and a Time to Die The Thing That Couldn't Die Step Down to Terror Monster on the Campus Imitation of Life This Earth is Mine Platinum High School Portrait in Black Spartacus Midnight Lace The Misfits By Love Possessed Flower Drum Song That Touch of Mink The Interns If a Man Answers Tammy and the Doctor The Thrill of It All Captain Newman, M.D. I'd Rather Be Rich Bus Riley's Back in Town The Art of Love The War Lord Madame X The Appaloosa Texas Across the River Thoroughly Modern Millie Rough Night in Jericho Counterpoint The Secret War of Harry Frigg Madigan The Pink Jungle Eye of the Cat Change of Habit How Do I Love Thee? Tribes The Omega Man Ben

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