William C. Mellor
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Born | June 29, 1903 United States |
Died | April 30, 1963(1963-04-30) (aged 59) United States |
Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park |
Occupation | Cinematographer |
William C. Mellor, A.S.C. (29 June 1903 – 30 April 1963) was a cinematographer who worked at Paramount, MGM and 20th Century Fox during a career that spanned three decades.
After earning his stripes on a string of B-movies in the 1930s, he first started making serious inroads as a leading cinematographer in 1940 when he worked for Preston Sturges on The Great McGinty.
Mellor did his best work with directors George Stevens (winning Oscars for two of his films, A Place in the Sun in 1951 and The Diary of Anne Frank in 1959) and William Wellman (Westward the Woman, 1951). He also contributed to several Anthony Mann westerns, including The Naked Spur in 1953, and a number of MGM musicals. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Mark Robson's Peyton Place in 1957.
He died suddenly of a heart attack while filming Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told in 1963. Loyal Griggs replaced Mellor. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Mellor received a posthumous Oscar nomination for his work on the film.
Selected filmography
- Wake Island (1942)
- Road to Morocco (1949)
- Too Late for Tears (1949)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)
- The Naked Spur (1953)
- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
- Giant (1956)
- Love in the Afternoon (1957)
- Peyton Place (1957)
- The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
- Compulsion (1959)
- The Best of Everything (1959)
- State Fair (1962)
- Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
- The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
External links
- William C. Mellor at IMDb
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- Charles Rosher and Karl Struss (1928)
- Clyde De Vinna (1929)
- Joseph T. Rucker and Willard Van der Veer (1930)
- Floyd Crosby (1931)
- Lee Garmes (1932)
- Charles Lang (1933)
- Victor Milner (1934)
- Hal Mohr (1935)
- Tony Gaudio (1936)
- Karl Freund (1937)
- Joseph Ruttenberg (1938)
- Gregg Toland / Ernest Haller and Ray Rennahan (1939)
- George Barnes / George Perinal (1940)
- Arthur C. Miller / Ernest Palmer (1941)
- Joseph Ruttenberg / Leon Shamroy (1942)
- Arthur C. Miller / Hal Mohr (1943)
- Joseph LaShelle / Leon Shamroy (1944)
- Harry Stradling / Leon Shamroy (1945)
- Arthur C. Miller / Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith, and Arthur Arling (1946)
- Guy Green / Jack Cardiff (1947)
- William Daniels / Joseph A. Valentine, William V. Skall, and Winton C. Hoch (1948)
- Paul C. Vogel / Winton C. Hoch (1949)
- Robert Krasker / Robert Surtees (1950)
- William C. Mellor / Alfred Gilks and John Alton (1951)
- Robert Surtees / Winton C. Hoch and Archie Stout (1952)
- Burnett Guffey / Loyal Griggs (1953)
- Boris Kaufman / Milton R. Krasner (1954)
- James Wong Howe / Robert Burks (1955)
- Joseph Ruttenberg / Lionel Lindon (1956)
- Jack Hildyard (1957)
- Sam Leavitt / Joseph Ruttenberg (1958)
- William C. Mellor / Robert Surtees (1959)
- Freddie Francis / Russell Metty (1960)
- Eugen Schüfftan / Daniel L. Fapp (1961)
- Jean Bourgoin and Walter Wottitz / Freddie Young (1962)
- James Wong Howe / Leon Shamroy (1963)
- Walter Lassally / Harry Stradling (1964)
- Ernest Laszlo / Freddie Young (1965)
- Haskell Wexler / Ted Moore (1966)
- Burnett Guffey (1967)
- Pasqualino De Santis (1968)
- Conrad L. Hall (1969)
- Freddie Young (1970)
- Oswald Morris (1971)
- Geoffrey Unsworth (1972)
- Sven Nykvist (1973)
- Fred J. Koenekamp and Joseph F. Biroc (1974)
- John Alcott (1975)
- Haskell Wexler (1976)
- Vilmos Zsigmond (1977)
- Néstor Almendros (1978)
- Vittorio Storaro (1979)
- Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet (1980)
- Vittorio Storaro (1981)
- Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor (1982)
- Sven Nykvist (1983)
- Chris Menges (1984)
- David Watkin (1985)
- Chris Menges (1986)
- Vittorio Storaro (1987)
- Peter Biziou (1988)
- Freddie Francis (1989)
- Dean Semler (1990)
- Robert Richardson (1991)
- Philippe Rousselot (1992)
- Janusz Kamiński (1993)
- John Toll (1994)
- John Toll (1995)
- John Seale (1996)
- Russell Carpenter (1997)
- Janusz Kamiński (1998)
- Conrad Hall (1999)
- Peter Pau (2000)
- Andrew Lesnie (2001)
- Conrad Hall (2002)
- Russell Boyd (2003)
- Robert Richardson (2004)
- Dion Beebe (2005)
- Guillermo Navarro (2006)
- Robert Elswit (2007)
- Anthony Dod Mantle (2008)
- Mauro Fiore (2009)
- Wally Pfister (2010)
- Robert Richardson (2011)
- Claudio Miranda (2012)
- Emmanuel Lubezki (2013)
- Emmanuel Lubezki (2014)
- Emmanuel Lubezki (2015)
- Linus Sandgren (2016)
- Roger Deakins (2017)
- Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
- Roger Deakins (2019)
- Erik Messerschmidt (2020)
- Greig Fraser (2021)
- James Friend (2022)
- Hoyte van Hoytema (2023)