John Alton
Personal Info
Know For
Camera
Gender
Male
Birthday
1901-10-05 (95 years old)
Deathday
1996-06-02
Place of Birth
Sopron, Austria-Hungary
Also known As
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John Alton
Biography
John Alton A.S.C. (October 5, 1901 – June 2, 1996), born Johann Altmann, in Sopron/Ödenburg, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, was an American cinematographer. Alton won an Academy Award for the cinematography of An American in Paris (1951), becoming the first Hungarian-born person to do so. He photographed some of the most famous film noirs of the classic period. He started out in Los Angeles as a lab technician in the 1920s, later becoming a cameraman within four years. He moved to France with Ernst Lubitsch to film backgrounds for The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) and ended up staying for one year heading the camera departmen...
Acting
1998
as Self (archive footage)
1995
2006
2008
as Self (archival footage)
Production
1947
as Director of Photography
1938
as Director of Photography
1950
as Director of Photography
1960
as Director of Photography
1955
as Director of Photography
1948
as Director of Photography
1949
as Director of Photography
1947
as Director of Photography
1956
as Director of Photography
1949
as Director of Photography
1954
as Director of Photography
1953
as Director of Photography
1949
as Director of Photography
1950
as Director of Photography
1951
as Director of Photography
1946
as Director of Photography
1947
as Director of Photography
1948
as Director of Photography
1958
as Director of Photography
1953
as Director of Photography
1949
as Director of Photography
1942
as Director of Photography
1948
as Director of Photography
1953
as Cinematography
1939
as Cinematography
1933
as Director
1933
as Writer
1933
as Cinematography
1939
as Cinematography
1938
as Cinematography
1937
as Cinematography
1937
as Cinematography
1933
as Cinematography
1935
as Cinematography
1936
as Cinematography
1936
as Cinematography
1936
as Cinematography
1952
as Director of Photography
1936
as Director of Photography
1952
as Director of Photography
1950
as Director of Photography
1939
as Director
1946
as Director of Photography
1948
as Director of Photography
1940
as Director of Photography
1940
as Director of Photography
1940
as Director of Photography
1940
as Director of Photography
1941
as Director of Photography
1941
as Director of Photography
1941
as Director of Photography
1941
as Director of Photography
1941
as Director of Photography
1960
as Director of Photography
1962
as Director of Photography
1957
as Director of Photography
1957
as Director of Photography
1956
as Director of Photography
1956
as Director of Photography
1955
as Director of Photography
1955
as Director of Photography
1955
as Director of Photography
1954
as Director of Photography
1954
as Director of Photography
1954
as Director of Photography
1954
as Director of Photography
1954
as Director of Photography
1953
as Director of Photography
1951
as Director of Photography
1949
as Director of Photography
1942
as Director of Photography
1942
as Director of Photography
1944
as Director of Photography
1945
as Director of Photography
1946
as Director of Photography
1946
as Director of Photography
1946
as Director of Photography
1947
as Cinematography
1947
as Director of Photography
1947
as Director of Photography
1945
as Director of Photography
1947
as Director of Photography
1945
as Director of Photography
1939
as Director of Photography
1943
as Director of Photography
1944
as Director of Photography
1938
as Director of Photography
1942
as Director of Photography
1951
as Additional Photography
1952
as Director of Photography
1951
as Director of Photography
1950
as Director of Photography
1947
as Director of Photography
1944
as Director of Photography
1941
as Director of Photography
1944
as Director of Photography
1959
as Director of Photography
1935
as Director of Photography
1937
as Director of Photography
1939
as Director of Photography
1936
as Director of Photography
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