Russell Harlan

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-09-16 (71 years old)

Deathday

1974-02-28

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Russell Harlan

Biography

Born Russell September 16, 1903 in Los Angeles, California to Frank and Bertha Harlan, who hailed from Iowa and Missouri. Russell was raised in Los Angeles along with his younger brother Richard (b. 1911). His paternal grandmother Sarah J. Harlan also lived with the family. Harlan started in the film industry as an actor and stuntman, and by the early 1930s was working behind the camera as an assistant. His first work as lead cinematographer was in 1937, when he filmed four "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns for Harry Sherman Productions. Harlan had a career as a cinematographer that spanned some thirty-three years from 1937 to 1970. He was nominat...

Production

1959

Rio Bravo

as Director of Photography

1962

To Kill a Mockingbird

as Director of Photography

1951

The Thing from Another World

as Director of Photography

1948

Red River

as Director of Photography

1962

Hatari!

as Director of Photography

1962

The Spiral Road

as Director of Photography

1942

American Empire

as Director of Photography

1965

The Great Race

as Director of Photography

1959

Operation Petticoat

as Director of Photography

1955

Blackboard Jungle

as Director of Photography

1954

Riot in Cell Block 11

as Director of Photography

1955

Land of the Pharaohs

as Director of Photography

1947

Ramrod

as Director of Photography

1952

The Big Sky

as Director of Photography

1959

Day of the Outlaw

as Director of Photography

1950

Guilty Bystander

as Director of Photography

1952

The Ring

as Director of Photography

1950

The Man Who Cheated Himself

as Director of Photography

1950

Southside 1-1000

as Director of Photography

1950

Gun Crazy

as Director of Photography

1939

The Llano Kid

as Director

1958

King Creole

as Director of Photography

1937

Rustlers' Valley

as Cinematography

1937

Texas Trail

as Cinematography

1938

Heart of Arizona

as Cinematography

1938

Bar 20 Justice

as Cinematography

1938

Pride of the West

as Cinematography

1938

The Frontiersmen

as Cinematography

1939

Sunset Trail

as Cinematography

1939

Range War

as Cinematography

1940

Hidden Gold

as Cinematography

1940

Three Men from Texas

as Cinematography

1941

Doomed Caravan

as Cinematography

1941

Border Vigilantes

as Cinematography

1941

Pirates on Horseback

as Cinematography

1941

Wide Open Town

as Cinematography

1941

Riders of the Timberline

as Cinematography

1941

Stick to Your Guns

as Cinematography

1941

Twilight on the Trail

as Cinematography

1941

Secret of the Wastelands

as Cinematography

1942

Lost Canyon

as Cinematography

1942

Undercover Man

as Cinematography

1943

Hoppy Serves a Writ

as Cinematography

1943

Border Patrol

as Cinematography

1943

Leather Burners

as Cinematography

1943

Colt Comrades

as Cinematography

1943

Bar 20

as Cinematography

1943

Riders of the Deadline

as Cinematography

1944

Texas Masquerade

as Cinematography

1944

Lumberjack

as Cinematography

1944

Mystery Man

as Cinematography

1944

Forty Thieves

as Cinematography

1942

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die

as Director of Photography

1956

Lust for Life

as Director of Photography

1943

Tarzan's Desert Mystery

as Director of Photography

1966

Hawaii

as Director of Photography

1970

Darling Lili

as Director of Photography

1964

Man's Favorite Sport?

as Director of Photography

1963

A Gathering of Eagles

as Director of Photography

1950

Tarzan and the Slave Girl

as Director of Photography

1967

Tobruk

as Director of Photography

1939

Heritage of the Desert

as Director of Photography

1939

Renegade Trail

as Director of Photography

1938

The Mysterious Rider

as Director of Photography

1937

North of the Rio Grande

as Director of Photography

1937

Hopalong Rides Again

as Director of Photography

1938

Cassidy of Bar 20

as Director of Photography

1939

Silver on the Sage

as Director of Photography

1938

Partners of the Plains

as Director of Photography

1965

Dear Heart

as Director of Photography

1958

Run Silent, Run Deep

as Director of Photography

1950

The Kangaroo Kid

as Director of Photography

1943

False Colors

as Director of Photography

1943

Buckskin Frontier

as Director of Photography

1948

Four Faces West

as Director of Photography

1939

Law of the Pampas

as Director of Photography

1945

A Walk in the Sun

as Director of Photography

1957

Witness for the Prosecution

as Director of Photography

1960

Sunrise at Campobello

as Director of Photography

1957

Something of Value

as Director of Photography

1965

Quick, Before It Melts

as Director of Photography

1949

Bad Men of Tombstone

as Director of Photography

1940

The Showdown

as Director of Photography

1940

Santa Fe Marshal

as Director of Photography

1938

In Old Mexico

as Director of Photography

1941

In Old Colorado

as Director of Photography

1940

Stagecoach War

as Director of Photography

1960

Pollyanna

as Director of Photography

1952

Ruby Gentry

as Director of Photography

1957

This Could Be the Night

as Director of Photography

1943

The Woman of the Town

as Director of Photography

1943

The Kansan

as Director of Photography

1940

Light of Western Stars

as Director of Photography

1956

The Last Hunt

as Cinematography

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