Russell Metty,

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(September 20, 1906 – April 28, 1978) was an American

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who won the

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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 was hired by

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working in the camera department. He left for RKO in 1929.Steeman, Albert
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, 2007. Last accessed: December 19, 2007. He became a regular cameraman at

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, and was a regular collaborator with the German film director Douglas Sirk, making eleven films altogether with Sirk.

Filmography

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* '' West of the Pecos'' (1934) * '' Night Waitress'' (1936) * '' They Wanted to Marry'' (1937) * '' Behind the Headlines'' (1937) * '' You Can't Beat Love'' (1937) * '' Forty Naughty Girls'' (1937) * '' Annapolis Salute'' (1937) * '' Bringing Up Baby'' (1938) * '' The Affairs of Annabel'' (1938) * ''

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off ''Mr. Doodle Kicks Off'' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Bert Granet. The film stars Joe Penner, June Travis, Richard Lane, Ben Alexander and Billy Gilbert. The film was released on October 7, 1938, by R ...

'' (1938) * '' Annabel Takes a Tour'' (1938) * '' Next Time I Marry'' (1938) * '' The Great Man Votes'' (1939) * '' The Girl and the Gambler'' (1939) * '' The Spellbinder'' (1939) * '' Bad Lands'' (1939) (uncredited) * '' Everything's on Ice'' (1939) * '' Three Sons'' (1939) * ''

That's Right – You're Wrong ''That's Right – You're Wrong'' is a 1939 American musical film directed by David Butler and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Kay Kyser and his band, with a cast that included Adolphe Menjou, Lucille Ball, Edward Everett Horton, R ...

'' (1939) * '' Curtain Call'' (1940) * ''

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'' (1940) * '' Dance, Girl, Dance'' (1940) * ''

No, No Nanette ''No, No, Nanette'' is a musical comedy with lyrics by Irving Caesar and Otto Harbach, music by Vincent Youmans, and a book by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel, based on Mandel's 1919 Broadway play ''My Lady Friends''. The farcical story involves th ...

'' (1940) * '' A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob'' (1941) * '' Sunny'' (1941) * '' Weekend for Three'' (1941) * '' Joan of Paris'' (1942) * '' Four Jacks and a Jill'' (1942) * '' Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost'' (1942) * '' The Big Street'' (1942) * '' The Falcon's Brother'' (1942) * ''

Army Surgeon ''Army Surgeon'' is a 1942 American film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Jane Wyatt and Kent Taylor. The plot is about a female surgeon who pretends to be a nurse so she can serve on the front line during World War I.

'' (1942) * '' Hitler's Children'' (1943) * '' Forever and a Day'' (1943) (uncredited) * '' The Sky's the Limit'' (1943) * '' Behind the Rising Sun'' (1943) * '' Around the World'' (1943) * '' Tender Comrade'' (1943) * ''

Seven Days Ashore ''Seven Days Ashore'' is a 1944 American comedy film directed by John H. Auer and written by Edward Verdier, Irving Phillips and Lawrence Kimble. The film stars Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Marcy McGuire, Virginia Mayo, Elaine Shepard, Gordon ...

'' (1944) * '' The Master Race'' (1944) * '' Music in Manhattan'' (1944) * '' Betrayal from the East'' (1945) * '' It's in the Bag!'' (1945) * '' The Story of G.I. Joe'' (1945) * '' Pardon My Past'' (1945) * ''

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'' (1946) * '' Breakfast in Hollywood'' (1946) * '' The Stranger'' (1946) * '' The Perfect Marriage'' (1946) * '' The Private Affairs of Bel Ami'' (1947) * '' Ivy'' (1947) * '' Ride the Pink Horse'' (1947) * '' A Woman's Vengeance'' (1947) * '' Arch of Triumph'' (1948) * ''

All My Sons ''All My Sons'' is a three-act play written in 1946 by Arthur Miller. It opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1949, and ran for 328 performances. It was directed by Elia Kazan (t ...

'' (1948) * '' Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid'' (1948) * '' You Gotta Stay Happy'' (1948) * '' Kiss the Blood Off My Hands'' (1948) * '' We Were Strangers'' (1949) * ''

The Lady Gambles ''The Lady Gambles'' is a 1949 American film noir drama film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston and Stephen McNally. Plot When his estranged wife Joan is found badly beaten after using loaded dice in a ba ...

'' (1949) * '' Bagdad'' (1949) * '' Buccaneer's Girl'' (1950) * ''

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'' (1950) * '' Curtain Call at Cactus Creek'' (1950) * '' Peggy'' (1950) * '' The Desert Hawk'' (1950) * ''

Wyoming Mail ''Wyoming Mail'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith. Plot In 1869, when the railroad mail service is threatened by frequent bandit attacks, the government hires Steve Davis t ...

'' (1950) * ''

Katie Did It ''Katie Did It'' is a 1951 American romantic comedy film directed by Frederick De Cordova and starring Ann Blyth, Mark Stevens and Cecil Kellaway.Stephens p.63 A small town girl falls in love with a big city artist, but mistakenly believes he al ...

'' (1950) * '' Up Front'' (1951) * '' Little Egypt'' (1951) * '' The Golden Horde'' (1951) * '' The Raging Tide'' (1951) * ''

Flame of Araby ''Flame of Araby'' (a.k.a. ''Flame of the Desert'') is a 1951 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Charles Lamont starring Maureen O'Hara and Jeff Chandler. British film star Maxwell Reed made his American film debut in the picture. ...

'' (1951) * '' The Treasure of Lost Canyon'' (1952) * '' Scarlet Angel'' (1952) * '' The World in His Arms'' (1952) * '' Yankee Buccaneer'' (1952) * '' Because of You'' (1952) * '' Against All Flags'' (1952) * ''

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'' (1953) * '' It Happens Every Thursday'' (1953) * '' Take Me to Town'' (1953) * '' The Man from the Alamo'' (1953) * '' Veils of Bagdad'' (1953) * '' Tumbleweed'' (1953) * '' Taza, Son of Cochise'' (1954) * '' Magnificent Obsession'' (1954) * '' Naked Alibi'' (1954) * ''

Four Guns to the Border ''Four Guns to the Border'' is a 1954 American Western film directed by Richard Carlson and starring Rory Calhoun, Colleen Miller, George Nader, Walter Brennan and Nina Foch.p.173 Fitzgerald, Michael G. & Magers, Boyd ''Ladies of the Western: ...

'' (1954) * '' The Sign of the Pagan'' (1954) * '' Crashout'' (1955) * '' Man Without a Star'' (1955) * '' Cult of the Cobra'' (1955) * '' The Man from Bitter Ridge'' (1955) * '' There's Always Tomorrow'' (1956) * '' All That Heaven Allows'' (1956) * '' Miracle in the Rain'' (1956) * '' Congo Crossing'' (1956) * ''

Written on the Wind ''Written on the Wind'' is a 1956 American Southern Gothic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone. It follows the dysfunctional family members of a Texas oil dynas ...

'' (1956) * '' Battle Hymn'' (1957) * '' Mister Cory'' (1957) * '' Man Afraid'' (1957) * '' The Midnight Story'' (1957) * '' Man of a Thousand Faces'' (1957) * ''

The Female Animal ''The Female Animal'' is a 1958 American CinemaScope film noir drama film directed by Harry Keller and starring Hedy Lamarr, Jane Powell, Jan Sterling and George Nader. Although she lived until 2000, this was Lamarr's final film in a film career ...

'' (1958) * '' Touch of Evil'' (1958) * '' A Time to Love and a Time to Die'' (1958) * ''

The Thing That Couldn't Die ''The Thing that Couldn't Die'' is a 1958 American horror film produced and directed by Will Cowan and starring William Reynolds, Andra Martin, Jeffrey Stone, and Carolyn Kearney. Based on an original screenplay by David Duncan for Universal P ...

'' (1958) * '' Step Down to Terror'' (1958) * '' Monster on the Campus'' (1958) * ''

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'' (1959) * '' This Earth is Mine'' (1959) * '' Platinum High School'' (1960) * '' Portrait in Black'' (1960) * '' Spartacus'' (1960) * '' Midnight Lace'' (1960) * '' The Misfits'' (1961) * '' By Love Possessed'' (1961) * '' Flower Drum Song'' (1961) * '' That Touch of Mink'' (1962) * '' The Interns'' (1962) * '' If a Man Answers'' (1962) * '' Tammy and the Doctor'' (1963) * '' The Thrill of It All'' (1963) * ''

Captain Newman, M.D. ''Captain Newman, M.D.'' is a 1963 American comedy film, comedy Drama (film and television), drama film directed by David Miller (director), David Miller and starring Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Robert Duvall, Eddie Albert and Bob ...

'' (1963) * '' I'd Rather Be Rich'' (1964) * '' Bus Riley's Back in Town'' (1965) * '' The Art of Love'' (1965) * '' The War Lord'' (1965) * '' Madame X'' (1966) * '' The Appaloosa'' (1966) * '' Texas Across the River'' (1966) * ''

Thoroughly Modern Millie ''Thoroughly Modern Millie'' is a 1967 American musical- romantic comedy film directed by George Roy Hill and starring Julie Andrews. The screenplay, by Richard Morris based on the 1956 British musical ''Chrysanthemum'', follows a naïve you ...

'' (1967) * '' Rough Night in Jericho'' (1967) * '' Counterpoint'' (1968) * '' The Secret War of Harry Frigg'' (1968) * '' Madigan'' (1968) * '' The Pink Jungle'' (1968) * ''

Eye of the Cat ''Eye of the Cat'' is a 1969 American horror film directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, and Eleanor Parker. The screenplay is by Joseph Stefano, best known as the co-creator of the tv-series ''The Oute ...

'' (1969) * '' Change of Habit'' (1969) * '' How Do I Love Thee?'' (1970) * ''

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'' (1970) * '' The Omega Man'' (1971) * '' Ben'' (1972) * '' Cancel My Reservation'' (1972)

Accolades

Wins *

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: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Color, for '' Spartacus'' (1961). Nominations * Laurel Awards: Golden Laurel, Top Cinematography – Color, for ''

'' 5th place; 1959. *

: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Color, for '' Flower Drum Song''; 1962. *

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: ''Tribes''; 1970–1971. * Emmy Awards: ''

The Waltons ''The Waltons'' is an American historical drama television series about a family in rural Virginia during the Great Depression and World War II. It was created by Earl Hamner Jr., based on his 1961 book '' Spencer's Mountain'' and the 1963 fil ...

''; 1972–1973.

References

External links

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biographical essay at

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