Joseph A. Valentine

Born in New York City as Giuseppe Valentino to Italian immigrant parents, he trained in photography before entering the motion-picture industry in the early 1920s. By 1924 he had risen to chief cinematographer, initially honing his visual style on a series of low-budget B-pictures before being recruited for higher-profile projects. His later years were marked by collaborations with Alfred Hitchcoc… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources