Lee Garmes
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- May 27, 1898
- Died
- August 31, 1978 (aged 80)
- Birthplace
- Peoria, Illinois, USA
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
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady
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Lady in a Cage
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Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
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Misty
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Happy Anniversary
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The Big Fisherman
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Never Love a Stranger
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The Big Boodle
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D-Day the Sixth of June
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The Bottom of the Bottle
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The Sharkfighters
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Man with the Gun
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Land of the Pharaohs
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The Desperate Hours
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Hannah Lee: An American Primitive
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The Lusty Men
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The Captive City
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Thunder in the East
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Actors and Sin
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Detective Story
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That's My Boy
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Saturday's Hero
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Our Very Own
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My Foolish Heart
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The Furies
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My Friend Irma Goes West
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Caught
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Roseanna McCoy
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The Fighting Kentuckian
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The Paradine Case
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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Nightmare Alley
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Specter of the Rose
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Duel in the Sun
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The Searching Wind
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Young Widow
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Love Letters
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Guest in the House
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None Shall Escape
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Since You Went Away
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Flight for Freedom
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Forever and a Day
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China Girl
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Footlight Serenade
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Jungle Book
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Lydia
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Angels Over Broadway
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The Scoundrel
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Crime Without Passion
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I Am Suzanne!
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Shanghai Madness
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Zoo in Budapest
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Face in the Sky
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My Lips Betray
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Shanghai Express
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Scarface
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Smilin' Through
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Strange Interlude
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Call Her Savage
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City Streets
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An American Tragedy
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Kiss Me Again
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Dishonored
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Fighting Caravans
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Spring Is Here
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Whoopee!
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The Song of the Flame
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Morocco
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Bright Lights
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The Other Tomorrow
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His Captive Woman
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Disraeli
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Say It with Songs
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Love and the Devil
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Prisoners
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The Yellow Lily
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The Barker
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Waterfront
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Rose of the Golden West
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The Popular Sin
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The Show Off
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The Lighthouse by the Sea
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Find Your Man
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I'll Get Him Yet
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