William C. Mellor

Born June 29, 1903· Missouri, USA

† Died April 30, 1963

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Having cut his teeth on low-budget productions in the 1930s, he moved into mainstream studio work for Paramount, MGM and 20th Century Fox, where his skill as a cinematographer quickly attracted top directors. A breakthrough arrived in 1940 with Preston Sturges’s The Great McGinty, and subsequent collaborations with George Stevens yielded two Academy Awards for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Dia… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources