Cinematographer Russell Metty, a superb craftsman who worked with such top directors as John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and Orson Welles, was born in Los Angeles on Septmeber 20, 1906. Entering the movie industry as a lab assistant, Metty apprenticed as as an assistant cameraman and graduated to lighting cameraman at RKO Radio Pictures in 1935...See full bio »
He clashed frequently with director Stanley Kubrick over the shooting of
Spartacus, a film that star Kirk Douglas inveigled Kubrick to direct after Douglas fired original director Anthony Mann, who had hired Metty in the first place. Though Metty was a top lighting cameraman in Hollywood who had worked with the hands-on director Orson Welles...
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