Gregg Toland
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Emerging from a modest Illinois upbringing, he entered the film world at fifteen as a Fox studio office boy, became an assistant cameraman a year later, and accidentally forged his distinctive chiaroscuro style while lighting the 1928 short The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra. Rising quickly to become Hollywood’s youngest cameraman in the 1930s, he later collaborated with directors such…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
