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Russell Metty was an American cinematographer who worked on over 100 films during his career. He is best known for his work on the classic films Spartacus (1960) and Touch of Evil (1958). Metty was born in Los Angeles, California on September 20, 1906. He began his career in the film industry in the 1920s, working as a camera assistant and later as a cinematographer. He worked on a variety of films, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. Metty won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Spartacus in 1960. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Touch of Evil in 1958. Metty was a member of the American Society of Cinematographers and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At the time of his death in 1978, Metty had an estimated net worth of $2 million.

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Occupation cinematographer,camera_department,miscellaneous
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 20 September 1906
Birthday 20 September
Birthplace Los Angeles, California, USA
Date of death 28 April, 1978
Died Place Canoga Park, California, USA
Nationality United States

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1971

Metty also worked extensively on television, including Columbo (1971) and The Waltons (1972).

1966

Furie (The Appaloosa (1966)), men who were extraordinarily active partners in crafting the look of their films. Kubrick was not deferential to his directors of photography, even to such top cameramen as Lucien Ballard and future Academy Award winners Oswald Morris and Geoffrey Unsworth. Metty and Kubrick clashed over the filming of "Spartacus", as Kubrick--with his extraordinary sense of light and effect--considered himself to be the director of photography on the film.

1961

Ironically, it was "Spartacus" that won Metty his sole Academy Award, for color cinematography (he received his second nomination for the color cinematography on Flower Drum Song (1961)), Metty continued to work on top productions into the 1970s, including The Misfits (1961), That Touch of Mink (1962), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Madigan (1968), and The Omega Man (1971).

1960

However, his collaboration with Kubrick on Spartacus (1960) proved troublesome. A union cinematographer himself who had been an accomplished professional photographer, Kubrick exerted control over the look of his films. Kubrick gave far less leeway to his directors of photography than did traditional directors, even directors such as Welles and noted bizarre-camera-angle freak Sidney J.

1950

At Universal in the 1950s he enjoyed a productive collaboration with director Douglas Sirk on ten films from 1953-59, including Sirk's masterpieces Magnificent Obsession (1954) and Imitation of Life (1959), a remake of the 1934 classic (Imitation of Life (1934)).

1946

Metty's ability to create effects with black-and-white contrast while shooting twilight and night were on display in two films he shot for Welles, The Stranger (1946) and the classic Touch of Evil (1958), the latter showing his mastery of complex crane shots.

1942

(Metty shot additional scenes for Welles' second masterpiece, The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), whose lighting cameraman was Stanley Cortez but had the look of Citizen Kane (1941), which was shot by Gregg Toland).

1935

Entering the movie industry as a lab assistant, he apprenticed as an assistant cameraman and graduated to lighting cameraman at RKO Radio Pictures in 1935.

1906

Cinematographer Russell Metty, a superb craftsman who worked with such top directors as John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and Orson Welles, was born in Los Angeles on Septmeber 20, 1906.