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Lucien Ballard A.S.C. (May 6, 1908 – October 1, 1988) was an American cinematographer. He worked on more than 130 films during his 50-year career, collaborating multiple times with directors including Josef von Sternberg, John Brahm, Henry Hathaway, Budd Boetticher, Raoul Walsh, Sam Peckinpah and Tom Gries.
Lucien Ballard, the cinematographer best known for his collaboration with director Sam Peckinpah on such films as The Wild Bunch (1969), was born in Miami, Oklahoma.
- January 1, 1
- Miami, Oklahoma, USA
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- Rancho Mirage, California, USA
Lucien Ballard was a cinematographer who worked with directors such as Josef von Sternberg, Howard Hughes, and Sam Peckinpah. He was known for his expertise in shooting widescreen and color films, especially Westerns, and for inventing the "Obie" light for his wife Merle Oberon.
- May 6, 1904
- October 1, 1988
Lucien Ballard, the cinematographer best known for his collaboration with directors Sam Peckinpah and Josef von Sternberg, 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.
Oct 6, 1988 · Lucien Ballard, a cinematographer whose sensuous images contributed to the heyday of the black-and-white film as well as the era of the three-dimensional color spectacular, died Saturday at...
Lucien Ballard has to be ranked among the greatest of Hollywood cinematographers based on a distinguished career which stretched from the early days of talkies into the blockbuster era of the 1970s.
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Oct 5, 1988 · Lucien Ballard, a cinematographer whose camera focused on the panoramic violence endemic to Sam Peckinpah's Westerns while his earlier efforts included the two-reel comic intimacies of the...
