Lucien Ballard

Born May 6, 1908· Miami, Oklahoma, USA

† Died October 1, 1988

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Emerging from Miami, Oklahoma, and educated at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Pennsylvania before a brief stint as a surveyor, he entered Paramount Studios in 1929, where he learned the craft as a camera assistant and quickly progressed to second cameraman under Lee Garmes on Josef von Sternberg’s Morocco. Early recognition arrived with a shared Venice Film Festival award for The… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources