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Lucien Ballard (1904–1988)

Cinematographer | Camera and Electrical Department | Miscellaneous Crew

Lucien Ballard, the cinematographer best known for his collaboration with director Sam Peckinpah on such films as The Wild Bunch, was born in Miami, Oklahoma. Ballard became a wanderer after dropping out of the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma, journeying to China in search of opportunity... See full bio »

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Lucien Keith Ballard
in Miami, Oklahoma, USA

Died:

(age 84) in Rancho Mirage, California, USA
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1985 My Kingdom For... (documentary)
 
1978 Rabbit Test
 
1976 Mikey and Nicky
 
1976 From Noon Till Three (director of photography)
 
1976 St. Ives
 
1976 Drum (director of photography)
 
1975 Breakheart Pass (director of photography)
 
1975 Breakout (director of photography)
 
1974 The Three Stooges Follies (segment)
 
1974 Three the Hard Way (director of photography)
 
1974 Thomasine & Bushrod (director of photography)
 
1973 Lady Ice
 
1972 The Getaway (director of photography)
 
1972 Arruza (documentary)
 
1972 Junior Bonner (director of photography)
 
1971 What's the Matter with Helen? (director of photography)
 
1970 Elvis: That's the Way It Is (documentary) (director of photography)
 
1970 The Hawaiians (director of photography)
 
1970 The Ballad of Cable Hogue (director of photography)
 
1969 The Wild Bunch (director of photography)
 
1969 True Grit (director of photography)
 
1969 A Time for Dying (director of photography)
 
1968 How Sweet It Is!
 
1968 The Party (director of photography)
 
1968 Will Penny
 
1967 Hour of the Gun (director of photography)
 
1966 ABC Stage 67 (TV series)
– Noon Wine (1966)
 
1966 An Eye for an Eye
 
1966 Nevada Smith (director of photography)
 
1966 Elfego Baca: Six Gun Law
 
1965 Boeing (707) Boeing (707) (director of photography)
 
1965 The Sons of Katie Elder (director of photography)
 
1965 Dear Brigitte
 
1964 Roustabout (director of photography)
 
1964 The New Interns
 
1963 Take Her, She's Mine (director of photography)
 
1963 Wall of Noise (director of photography)
 
1963 Wives and Lovers
 
1963 The Caretakers (director of photography)
 
1963 The Rifleman (TV series)
– The Sixteenth Cousin (1963)
 
1961-1963 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV series)
– Project X (1963)
– The Clocks (1962)
– Up Jumped the Devil (1961)
– Ricochet (1961)
 
1962 Saints and Sinners (TV series)
– A Servant in the House of My Party (1962) (director of photography)
 
1962 Ride the High Country (director of photography)
 
1962 Target: The Corruptors (TV series)
– A Man's Castle (1962) (director of photography)
 
1961 Susan Slade
 
1961 Marines, Let's Go
 
1961 The Parent Trap (director of photography)
 
1959-1961 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (TV series)
– The Swamp Fox: Horses for Greene (1961)
– The Swamp Fox: A Woman's Courage (1961)
– Zorro: Adios El Cuchillo (1960)
– Zorro: El Bandido (1960)
– Elfego Baca: Gus Tomlin Is Dead (1960)
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1960 The Westerner (TV series)
– Line Camp (1960)
– The Courting of Libby (1960)
– Jeff (1960)
 
1960 Zorro (TV series)
– Adios, El Cuchillo (1960)
– El Bandido (1960)
 
1960 Desire in the Dust
 
1960 Pay or Die
 
1960 Black Saddle (TV series)
– End of the Line (1960)
 
1960 Zane Grey Theater (TV series)
– Stagecoach to Yuma (1960)
 
1960 The Bramble Bush
 
1960 Law of the Plainsman (TV series)
– The Matriarch (1960)
 
1960 The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
 
1959 Al Capone (director of photography)
 
1959 City of Fear
 
1958 Murder by Contract
 
1958 Anna Lucasta
 
1958 Buchanan Rides Alone (director of photography)
 
1958 I Married a Woman
 
1957 Band of Angels
 
1957 The Unholy Wife (director of photography)
 
1956 The King and Four Queens
 
1956 A Kiss Before Dying
 
1956 The Proud Ones
 
1956 The Killing (director of photography)
 
1956 The Killer Is Loose
 
1955 Seven Cities of Gold (director of photography)
 
1955 The Magnificent Matador
 
1955 White Feather (director of photography)
 
1954 The Raid
 
1954 Prince Valiant
 
1954 New Faces
 
1953 Inferno
 
1953 The Glory Brigade
 
1953 The Desert Rats (director of photography)
 
1952 Night Without Sleep
 
1952 Full House (photography / segment "The Clarion Call" - uncredited)
 
1952 Don't Bother to Knock
 
1952 Diplomatic Courier (director of photography)
 
1952 Return of the Texan
 
1951 Fixed Bayonets! (director of photography)
 
1951 Let's Make It Legal
 
1951 The House on Telegraph Hill (director of photography)
 
1948 Berlin Express
 
1947 Night Song
 
1946 Temptation
 
1945 This Love of Ours (director of photography)
 
1944 Laura (uncredited)
 
1944 Sweet and Low-Down (director of photography)
 
1944 The Lodger (director of photography)
 
1943 Holy Matrimony
 
1943 Bomber's Moon
 
1943 Tonight We Raid Calais (director of photography)
 
1943 The Outlaw (uncredited)
 
1942 The Undying Monster
 
1942 Orchestra Wives (director of photography)
 
1942 Whispering Ghosts
 
1942 Moontide (uncredited)
 
1941 Swamp Water (director of photography - uncredited)
 
1941 Wild Geese Calling
 
1940 Cold Turkey (short)
 
1940 The Villain Still Pursued Her
 
1940 No Census, No Feeling (short) (director of photography)
 
1939 Coast Guard
 
1939 Yes, We Have No Bonanza (short)
 
1939 Outside These Walls
 
1939 Blind Alley
 
1939 A Ducking They Did Go (short)
 
1939 Let Us Live
 
1939 Texas Stampede
 
1939 The Thundering West
 
1939 Three Little Sew and Sews (short)
 
1938 Home on the Rage (short)
 
1938 Rio Grande (photography)
 
1938 Flat Foot Stooges (short)
 
1938 A Nag in the Bag
 
1938 The Nightshirt Bandit (short)
 
1938 Flight to Fame
 
1938 Violent Is the Word for Curly (short)
 
1938 Squadron of Honor
 
1938 Highway Patrol
 
1938 The Lone Wolf in Paris
 
1938 The Mind Needer (short)
 
1938 Penitentiary
 
1937 Man Bites Lovebug (short)
 
1937 The Shadow
 
1937 Life Begins with Love
 
1937 Cash and Carry (short)
 
1937 Girls Can Play
 
1937 Venus Makes Trouble
 
1937 I Promise to Pay
 
1937 Racketeers in Exile
 
1937 The Devil's Playground
 
1936 Craig's Wife (photography)
 
1936 The Final Hour
 
1936 The King Steps Out
 
1935 Crime and Punishment
 
1935 The Devil Is a Woman (uncredited)
 
1930 Morocco (uncredited)
 
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1933 Big Executive (assistant camera)
 
1933 The Eagle and the Hawk (assistant camera)
 
1932 Blonde Venus (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
1932 Une heure près de toi (camera operator)
 
1932 This Is the Night (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
1932 One Hour with You (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1931 Beloved Bachelor (assistant camera)
 
1931 I Take This Woman (assistant camera)
 
1930 Morocco (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
1930 Monte Carlo (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1929 The Love Parade (camera operator - uncredited)
 
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1929 Dangerous Curves (production assistant)
 

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(1966) Unsold pilot: Cinematographer on a pilot for a series to be called "McNab's Lab". See more »

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[on making The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond] We wanted to go for an authentic atmosphere for the 1920s where the film was showing. So after seeing some of the rushes, the producer went to Boetticher [director Budd Boetticher] and said, "I thought you said Ballard was a great cameraman - this looks like it was shot in 1920!" And Budd said, "It's SUPPOSED to look like it was shot in 1920!" See more »

Trivia:

Designed a special spotlight to light then-wife Merle Oberon's face that had sustained scars in a near-fatal car crash in London in 1937. The device known as the "Obie" (Oberon's nickname) is usually mounted next to the camera where it lights the subject's face head on, thus reducing the incidence of unflattering facial lines and shadows. See more »

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