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Joseph MacDonald (I) (1906–1968)

Versatile Mexico City-born cinematographer, who worked equally well with black-and-white and with colour film, and in every genre from film noir, to westerns, to musicals. Joe MacDonald served a lengthy apprenticeship, starting as assistant cameraman in the early 1920's, finally graduating to first camera operator by the beginning of the following decade... See full bio »

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1969 Mackenna's Gold (director of photography / as Joseph Macdonald)
 
1967 A Guide for the Married Man (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1966 Alvarez Kelly (director of photography)
 
1965 Blindfold (director of photography)
 
1965 The Reward (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1965 Mirage (director of photography)
 
1964 Rio Conchos (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1964 Invitation to a Gunfighter (director of photography)
 
1964 The Carpetbaggers (director of photography)
 
1963 The List of Adrian Messenger (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1962 40 Pounds of Trouble (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1962 Taras Bulba
 
1962 Walk on the Wild Side (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1961 The Last Time I Saw Archie (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1960 Pepe (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1960 The Gallant Hours (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1959 Five Fingers (TV series)
Final Dream (1959) (as Joe McDonald)
Station Break (1959) (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1959 Warlock (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1958 Ten North Frederick (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1958 The Young Lions (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1957 Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1957 The True Story of Jesse James (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1956 Teenage Rebel
 
1956 Bigger Than Life (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1956 Hilda Crane
 
1956 On the Threshold of Space (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1955 The View from Pompey's Head (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1955 House of Bamboo (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1955 The Racers
 
1954 Woman's World
 
1954 Broken Lance (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1954 Hell and High Water (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1953 How to Marry a Millionaire (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1953 Pickup on South Street (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1953 Titanic (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1953 Niagara (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1952 Full House (photography / segments "The Last Leaf" & "The Gift of the Magi" - uncredited)
 
1952 What Price Glory (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1952 Viva Zapata! (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1951 As Young as You Feel (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1951 Fourteen Hours (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1951 You're in the Navy Now (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1950 Stella (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1950 Panic in the Streets (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1949 Pinky (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1949 It Happens Every Spring (director of photography / as Joe Mac Donald)
 
1949 Down to the Sea in Ships (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1948 Yellow Sky (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1948 The Street with No Name (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1948 Call Northside 777 (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1947 Moss Rose
 
1946 My Darling Clementine (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1946 The Dark Corner (director of photography / as Joe Mac Donald)
 
1946 Behind Green Lights (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1946 Shock (director of photography / as Joe MacDonald)
 
1945 Captain Eddie (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1944 Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1944 The Big Noise (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1943 Wintertime (as Joe MacDonald)
 
1942 Quiet Please: Murder (director of photography)
 
1942 The Postman Didn't Ring (director of photography)
 
1941 Charlie Chan in Rio (as Joseph P. MacDonald)
 
1935 Rosa de Francia
 
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1953 White Witch Doctor (additional director of photography)
 
1952 The Snows of Kilimanjaro (director of photography - uncredited)
 
1941 Western Union (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1939 Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1937 Thin Ice (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1935 Dante's Inferno (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1934 All Men Are Enemies (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1933 The Devil's in Love (camera crew member - uncredited)
 
1933 Adorable (second camera operator - as Joe MacDonald)
 
1933 Sailor's Luck (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1932 Hat Check Girl (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1932 The Big Stampede (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1932 Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1931 Sob Sister (second camera operator - uncredited)
 
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1941 Romance of the Rio Grande
Carlos Hernandez (as Joseph McDonald)
 
1940 Arizona
Hap (uncredited)
 

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Joe Mac Donald | Joe MacDonald | Joseph P. MacDonald | Joseph Macdonald | Joe McDonald | Joseph McDonald
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