Burnett Guffey
- Camera
- May 26, 1905 · Del Rio, Tennessee, USA
- May 30, 1983
Biography
While still a teenager, the future Academy Award-winning lensman began as an assistant cameraman in 1923 on John Ford's 1924 western saga The Iron Horse. He was then hired by the Famous Players-Lasky Studios in 1927, became a camera operator in 1928 and worked there until 1943. Guffey was hired as a Director of Photography by Columbia Pictures in 1944. In 1957-58 he served as president of the American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.) for a year, and had been a long standing member. According to film critic Spencer Selby, Guffey was a prolific film noir cinematographer, shooting 20 of them, including In a Lonely Place (1950).
Known for
Filmography
- The Steagle · Cinematography
- The Great White Hope · Cinematography
- Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? · Cinematography
- Halls of Anger · Cinematography
- My Father: Gordon Parks · Self
- The Madwoman of Chaillot · Cinematography
- Some Kind of a Nut · Cinematography
- The Learning Tree · Cinematography
- Where It's At · Cinematography
- The Moviemakers · Self
- The Split · Cinematography
- The Ambushers · Cinematography
- Bonnie and Clyde · Cinematography
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying · Cinematography
- The Silencers · Cinematography
- King Rat · Cinematography
- Good Neighbor Sam · Cinematography
- Flight from Ashiya · Cinematography
- Kid Galahad · Cinematography
- Birdman of Alcatraz · Cinematography
- Mr. Sardonicus · Cinematography
- Homicidal · Cinematography
- Cry for Happy · Cinematography
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph · Cinematography
- Hell to Eternity · Cinematography
- The Mountain Road · Cinematography
- Edge of Eternity · Cinematography
- They Came to Cordura · Cinematography
- Gidget · Cinematography
- Dogface · Cinematography
- Me and the Colonel · Cinematography
- Screaming Mimi · Cinematography
- The True Story of Lynn Stuart · Cinematography
- Decision at Sundown · Cinematography
- The Brothers Rico · Cinematography
- The Strange One · Cinematography
- Not One Shall Die · Cinematography
- Nightfall · Cinematography
- Storm Center · Cinematography
- The Harder They Fall · Cinematography
- Battle Stations · Cinematography
- Three Stripes in the Sun · Cinematography
- Count Three and Pray · Cinematography
- Tight Spot · Cinematography
- The Violent Men · Cinematography
- Private Hell 36 · Cinematography
- Human Desire · Cinematography
- The Bamboo Prison · Cinematography
- From Here to Eternity · Cinematography
- The Last Posse · Cinematography
- Assignment: Paris · Cinematography
- The Sniper · Cinematography
- Scandal Sheet · Cinematography
- The Family Secret · Cinematography
- Two of a Kind · Cinematography
- Sirocco · Cinematography
- Emergency Wedding · Cinematography
- Convicted · Cinematography
- In a Lonely Place · Cinematography
- Father Is a Bachelor · Cinematography
- The Reckless Moment · Cinematography
- And Baby Makes Three · Cinematography
- All the King's Men · Cinematography
- The Undercover Man · Cinematography
- Knock on Any Door · Cinematography
- The Gallant Blade · Cinematography
- The Sign of the Ram · Cinematography
- To the Ends of the Earth · Cinematography
- Framed · Cinematography
- Johnny O'Clock · Cinematography
- So Dark the Night · Cinematography
- Gallant Journey · Cinematography
- Night Editor · Cinematography
- A Bird in the Head · Cinematography
- The Notorious Lone Wolf · Cinematography
- Meet Me on Broadway · Cinematography
- My Name Is Julia Ross · Cinematography
- Blonde from Brooklyn · Cinematography
- Eve Knew Her Apples · Cinematography
- I Love a Mystery · Cinematography