Philip H. Lathrop

Born October 22, 1912· Merced, California, USA

† Died April 12, 1995

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Emerging from a childhood spent on the Universal Studios lot, Lathrop entered the camera department at eighteen and learned the craft under veterans such as Gilbert Warrenton, Joseph A. Valentine and Russell Metty, later operating the camera for the famed opening of Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil. He became Universal’s director of photography in 1958, debuting with Blake Edwards’s The Perfect Furlou… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources