Lee Garmes
- Camera
- May 27, 1898 · Peoria, Illinois, USA
- August 31, 1978
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lee Garmes, A.S.C. (May 27, 1898 – August 31, 1978) was an American cinematographer. During his career, he worked with directors Howard Hawks, Max Ophüls, Josef von Sternberg, Alfred Hitchcock, King Vidor, Nicholas Ray and Henry Hathaway, whom he had met as a young man when the two first came to Hollywood in the silent era. He also co-directed two films with legendary screenwriter Ben Hecht: Angels Over Broadway and Actor's and Sin. Born in Peoria, Illinois, Garmes first came to Hollywood in 1916. His first job was as an assistant in the paint department at Thomas H. Ince Studios, but he soon became a camera assistant before graduating to full-time cameraman. His earliest films were comedy shorts, and his career did not fully take off until the introduction of sound. Garmes was married to film actress Ruth Hall from 1933 until his death in 1978. He is interred in the Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Garmes was one of the earliest proponents of video technology, which he advocated as early as 1972. That year, he had been hired by Technicolor to photograph the short film Why, which was intended to test whether video was a viable technology for shooting feature films. According to American Cinematographer magazine, "Although officially unaccredited, Lee Garmes photographed a considerable portion of Gone with the Wind. Many consider the famous railroad yard sequence among his finest cinematic efforts." Garmes was one of many Hollywood veterans from the silent era interviewed by Kevin Brownlow for the television series Hollywood (1980).
Known for
Filmography
- Hollywood · Self
- Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys · Producer
- Why? · Cinematography
- How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life · Cinematography
- A Big Hand for the Little Lady · Cinematography
- Lady in a Cage · Cinematography
- Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man · Cinematography
- Misty · Cinematography
- The Big Fisherman · Cinematography
- Happy Anniversary · Cinematography
- Never Love a Stranger · Cinematography
- The Big Boodle · Cinematography
- The Sharkfighters · Cinematography
- D-Day the Sixth of June · Cinematography
- The Bottom of the Bottle · Cinematography
- Man with the Gun · Cinematography
- The Desperate Hours · Cinematography
- Land of the Pharaohs · Cinematography
- Abdullah's Harem · Cinematography
- Hannah Lee: An American Primitive · Director, Cinematography
- Thunder in the East · Cinematography
- The Lusty Men · Cinematography
- Actors and Sin · Cinematography, Co-Director
- The Captive City · Cinematography
- Detective Story · Cinematography
- That's My Boy · Cinematography
- Saturday's Hero · Cinematography
- Our Very Own · Cinematography
- The Furies · Cinematography
- My Friend Irma Goes West · Cinematography
- My Foolish Heart · Cinematography
- Roseanna McCoy · Cinematography
- The Fighting Kentuckian · Cinematography
- Caught · Cinematography
- The Paradine Case · Cinematography
- Nightmare Alley · Cinematography
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · Cinematography
- Duel in the Sun · Cinematography
- The Searching Wind · Cinematography
- Specter of the Rose · Cinematography, Co-Director
- Young Widow · Cinematography
- Love Letters · Cinematography
- Paris Underground · Cinematography
- Guest in the House · Cinematography
- Since You Went Away · Cinematography
- None Shall Escape · Cinematography
- Flight for Freedom · Cinematography
- Forever and a Day · Cinematography
- China Girl · Cinematography
- Footlight Serenade · Cinematography
- Jungle Book · Cinematography
- Lydia · Cinematography, Associate Producer
- Angels Over Broadway · Cinematography, Director
- Beyond Tomorrow · Producer
- Once in a Blue Moon · Cinematography
- The Scoundrel · Cinematography
- Crime Without Passion · Cinematography, Director
- I Am Suzanne! · Cinematography
- My Lips Betray · Cinematography
- Shanghai Madness · Cinematography
- Zoo in Budapest · Cinematography
- Face in the Sky · Cinematography
- Strange Interlude · Cinematography
- Call Her Savage · Cinematography
- Smilin' Through · Cinematography
- Dreaming Lips · Technical Supervisor, Producer
- Scarface · Cinematography
- Shanghai Express · Cinematography
- The Conquest of the Air · Cinematography
- An American Tragedy · Cinematography
- City Streets · Cinematography
- Dishonored · Cinematography
- Fighting Caravans · Cinematography
- Kiss Me Again · Camera Operator
- Morocco · Cinematography
- Whoopee! · Cinematography
- Bright Lights · Cinematography
- The Song of the Flame · Cinematography
- Spring Is Here · Cinematography
- The Other Tomorrow · Cinematography