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Charles Lang (I) (1902–1998)

Cinematographer | Camera and Electrical Department

One of the outstanding cinematographers of Hollywood's Golden Age, Lang spent most of his career at Paramount (1929-1952), where he contributed to the studio's well-earned reputation for visual style. Lang was educated at Lincoln High School in L.A., then proceeded to the University of Southern California to study law... See full bio »

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Charles Bryant Lang
in Bluff, Utah, USA

Died:

(age 96) in Santa Monica, California, USA
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1973 40 Carats
 
1972 Butterflies Are Free (director of photography / as Charles B. Lang)
 
1971 The Love Machine (director of photography / as Charles B. Lang)
 
1971 Doctors' Wives (director of photography / as Charles B. Lang)
 
1970 A Walk in the Spring Rain
 
1969 Cactus Flower (director of photography / as Charles E. Lang)
 
1969 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (as Charles F. Lang)
 
1969 How to Commit Marriage
 
1968 The Stalking Moon (director of photography)
 
1968 A Flea in Her Ear
 
1967 Wait Until Dark (director of photography)
 
1967 The Flim-Flam Man (director of photography)
 
1967 Hotel
 
1966 Not with My Wife, You Don't! (director of photography)
 
1966 How to Steal a Million (director of photography)
 
1965 Inside Daisy Clover
 
1964 Sex and the Single Girl
 
1964 Father Goose (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1964 Paris When It Sizzles (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1963 Charade (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1963 The Wheeler Dealers
 
1963 Critic's Choice
 
1962 A Girl Named Tamiko
 
1962 How the West Was Won (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1961 Blue Hawaii (as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1961 Summer and Smoke (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1961 One-Eyed Jacks (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1960 The Facts of Life (as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1960 The Magnificent Seven (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1960 Song Without End (uncredited)
 
1960 Strangers When We Meet (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1959 Last Train from Gun Hill (as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1959 Some Like It Hot (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1958 Separate Tables (photographed by / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1958 The Matchmaker (as Charles Lang jr)
 
1957 Wild Is the Wind
 
1957 Loving You (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1957 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (director of photography / as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1956 The Rainmaker (as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1956 The Solid Gold Cadillac
 
1956 Autumn Leaves (director of photography)
 
1955 Queen Bee
 
1955 The Man from Laramie (director of photography)
 
1955 Female on the Beach
 
1955 The Long Gray Line (uncredited)
 
1954 Phffft (director of photography)
 
1954 Sabrina (as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1954 It Should Happen to You (director of photography)
 
1953 The Big Heat (director of photography)
 
1953 Salome
 
1952 Sudden Fear (director of photography / as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1952 The Atomic City (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1952 Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1951 Red Mountain (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1951 Peking Express (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1951 Ace in the Hole (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1951 The Mating Season (director of photography / as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1950 Branded (director of photography / as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1950 Copper Canyon (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1950 September Affair (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1950 Fancy Pants (as Charles B. Lang)
 
1949 The Great Lover (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1949 Rope of Sand (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1949 My Own True Love (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1948 Miss Tatlock's Millions (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1948 A Foreign Affair (director of photography / as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1947 Where There's Life (as Charles B. Lang Jr.)
 
1947 Desert Fury (director of photography)
 
1947 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1946 Cross My Heart
 
1946 Blue Skies
 
1946 Miss Susie Slagle's (as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1945 The Stork Club (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1944 Practically Yours (as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1944 Here Come the Waves
 
1944 Frenchman's Creek (uncredited)
 
1944 I Love a Soldier
 
1944 The Uninvited (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1944 Standing Room Only
 
1943 True to Life
 
1943 So Proudly We Hail! (director of photography)
 
1943 No Time for Love (as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1942 The Forest Rangers
 
1942 Are Husbands Necessary?
 
1942 The Lady Has Plans (director of photography)
 
1941 Skylark
 
1941 Sundown
 
1941 Nothing But the Truth (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1940 Dancing on a Dime
 
1940 Arise, My Love (director of photography / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1940 The Ghost Breakers
 
1940 Buck Benny Rides Again
 
1940 Women Without Names
 
1940 Adventure in Diamonds
 
1939 The Cat and the Canary
 
1939 The Gracie Allen Murder Case
 
1939 Midnight (photographed by)
 
1938 Zaza (photographed by / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1938 Spawn of the North (as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1938 You and Me (photographed by / as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1938 Dr. Rhythm
 
1937 Tovarich
 
1937 Angel (as Charles Lang Jr.)
 
1937 Souls at Sea
 
1936 Desire
 
1936 I Loved a Soldier
 
1935 Peter Ibbetson (photographed by)
 
1935 Mississippi (photographed by)
 
1935 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
 
1934 Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (photographed by)
 
1934 She Loves Me Not
 
1934 We're Not Dressing
 
1934 Death Takes a Holiday (photographed by)
 
1933 Cradle Song
 
1933 The Way to Love
 
1933 Gambling Ship
 
1933 A Bedtime Story
 
1933 He Learned About Women
 
1933 She Done Him Wrong (photographed by)
 
1933 L'amour guide
 
1932 A Farewell to Arms (photographed by)
 
1932 Devil and the Deep
 
1932 Thunder Below
 
1932 Tomorrow and Tomorrow
 
1932 No One Man
 
1931 Once a Lady
 
1931 Caught
 
1931 The Magnificent Lie
 
1931 Newly Rich
 
1931 The Vice Squad
 
1931 Unfaithful
 
1930 The Right to Love
 
1930 Tom Sawyer
 
1930 Anybody's Woman
 
1930 For the Defense
 
1930 Shadow of the Law
 
1930 The Light of Western Stars
 
1930 Sarah and Son
 
1930 Street of Chance
 
1930 Seven Days' Leave
 
1930 Behind the Make-Up
 
1929 Halfway to Heaven
 
1929 Innocents of Paris
 
1928 The Shopworn Angel
 
1927 Ritzy
 
1926 The Night Patrol
 
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1926 The Loves of Ricardo (exterior photography)
 
1925 The Golden Princess (assistant camera)
 
1923 The Virginian (assistant camera)
 
1923 Are You a Failure? (assistant camera)
 
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1992 Visions of Light (documentary) (special thanks: AFI - as Charles B. Lang)
 
Show ShowSelf (1 title)
1992 Visions of Light (documentary)
Himself (as Charles B. Lang)
 
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1999 The 71st Annual Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself - Memorial Tribute
 

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Alternate Names:

Charles B. Lang Jr. | Charles Lang Jr. | Charles B. Lang | Charles E. Lang | Charles F. Lang | Charles Lang jr
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