Charles Lang

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Charles Bryant Lang Jr ASC born March 27 1902 Bluff Utah died April 3 1998 Santa Monica California was an American cinematographer Early in his career he worked with the Akeley camera a gyroscopemounted pancake camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots Langs first credits were as cocinematographer on the silent films The Night Patrol 1926 and The Loves of Ricardo 1927 After completing Tom Sawyer for Paramount Pictures in 1930 he continued working at the studio for more than twenty years The style of lighting he introduced in A Farewell to Arms became heavily identified with all of Paramounts films during the 1930s and 1940s though he occasionally worked for other studios for instance on The Ghost and Mrs Muir 1947 In 1951 he began the second phase of his career this time as a freelance cinematographer1 His credits include The Big Heat 1953 with Glenn Ford and Lee Marvin Sabrina 1954 with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden Gunfight at the OK Corral 1957 with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas The Matchmaker 1958 Some Like It Hot 1959 with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon The Magnificent Seven 1960 with Steve McQueen OneEyed Jacks 1961 with Marlon Brando How the West Was Won 1962 in Cinerama Charade 1963 with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn Bob Carol Ted Alice 1969 and Butterflies Are Free 1972 Lang received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1991 for a career which included at least 114 feature films