Gregg Toland
Cinematographer
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The Advocate | November 12, 2009
Orson Welles' daughter to visit Darien with book
...object in a scene to remain in focus, which provided a more realistic sense of action, Shields said, adding that cinematographer Gregg Toland greatly contributed to the film's success. The movie became one of the first artful interpretations...
In this article: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, H.G. Wells, Macbeth, Mercury Theatre, and War of the Worlds
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Wikipedia | October 17, 2009
Gregg Toland
...range; Toland shot his scenes in between f:8 and f:16. Optical print shots and in-camera composites on ''Citizen Kane'' Gregg Toland collaborated on a number of shots with Linwood G. Dunn. Although these looked like they were using deep...
In this article: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Linwood G. Dunn, The Long Voyage Home, John Ford, Hollywood, and Suicide
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Wikipedia | October 16, 2009
Gary Graver
...with the director. Welles told Graver that only one other person had ever called him to say they wanted to work with him - and that was Gregg Toland who worked with Welles on Citizen Kane. Soon after, Welles and Graver started work on the...
In this article: Gary Graver, Orson Welles, B-movies, Citizen Kane, Robert McCallum, The Other Side of the Wind, Hollywood, AVN Award, Oscar, and Leukemia
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Wikipedia | October 02, 2009
Mad Love (1935 film)
...started on Mad Love on May 6, 1935. Chester Lyons was assigned as the cinematographer for the film. Freund insisted on Gregg Toland, who he did get for a reported "8 days of additional photography". Actress Frances Drake recalled difficulty...
In this article: Mad Love, Peter Lorre, Karl Freund, Pauline Kael, and The Hands of Orlac
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NPR | September 22, 2009
A Waltz Through Depression-Era Art And Culture
...The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) and The River (1937), with their images of drought, flood, and other rural calamities, helped Gregg Toland (the cinematographer) and John Ford (the director) give authenticity to their 1940 screen...
In this article: Depression, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Roosevelt, Woody Allen, Dorothea Lange, Anxiety, Individualism, Dancing in the Dark, and W.W. Norton & Co.
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Wikipedia | September 08, 2009
Intermezzo (1939 film)
...Gustaf Molander. The music was by Robert Russell Bennett, Max Steiner, Heinz Provost, and Christian Sinding. The cinematography was by Gregg Toland who replaced It stars Leslie Howard as a (married) virtuoso violinist who falls in love with...
In this article: Intermezzo, Leslie Howard, Citizen Kane, Ingrid Bergman, Oscar, Honeysuckle Rose, Robert Russell Bennett, Christian Sinding, and David O. Selznick
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | July 11, 2009
To the nines: 1939
...Samuel Goldwyn's bet that moviegoers would go for Bronte if you cast beauties like Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon and hired Gregg Toland to shoot it. The all-female, all-star "The Women,'' which puts the 2008 remake to shame. "Destry...
In this article: Gone with the Wind, Only Angels Have Wings, Thomas Mitchell, Oscar, Stagecoach, Dark Victory, RKO, Frank Capra, and Bette Davis
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New York Times | May 06, 2009
DVDs: A Bunch of Big Names, and a Dummy to Boot
...it's not as high art but as elevated craft. The combined work of two of Goldwyn's below-the-line stalwarts the cinematographer Gregg Toland and the production designer Richard Day results in some of the most carefully coordinated Technicolor...
In this article: Samuel Goldwyn, The Goldwyn Follies, Sonja Henie, George Balanchine, William A. Seiter, Vera Zorina, Ira Gershwin, and Hollywood
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New York Post: Entertainment | July 03, 2008
REVIEW: 'GONZO' - New York Post
...and the British illustrator Ralph Steadman, whose ink-meets-blender drawings did as much for the spirit of Gonzo as cinematographer Gregg Toland did for "Citizen Kane." But another retelling of the death of the '60s dream (cue "Piece of My...
In this article: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Citizen Kane, Jimmy Carter, Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side, Pat Buchanan, New York Post, and Piece of My Heart
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SFGate: Entertainment | May 22, 2008
'Indiana Jones' whips up the action
...filmmakers is unmistakable. Director of photography Janusz Kaminski ("Schindler's List") composes the characters within the frame like Gregg Toland in an old William Wyler movie, with everything crisply outlined in deep focus. It's an homage...
In this article: Steven Spielberg, Indiana Jones, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Karen Allen, Indiana Jones, and Cate Blanchett
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Gregg Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 - September 26, 1948) was a highly influential American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.
During the 1930s, Toland became the youngest cameraman in Hollywood but soon one of its most sought-after cinematographers. Over a seven-year span (1936–1942), he was nominated five times for the "Best Cinematography" Oscar, including a win in 1940 for his work on Wuthering Heights.
He worked with many of the top directors of the '20s, '30s, and '40s, including John Ford, Howard Hawks, Erich von Stroheim, King Vidor, Orson Welles, and William Wyler.
He was born and raised in Charleston, Illinois and died on September 28, 1948, of a coronary thrombosis in Hollywood, California.
Toland was the subject of an "Annals of Hollywood" article in The New Yorker, "The Cameraman," by Hilton Als (June 19, 2006, p. 46).
Just before his death, he was concentrating on the "ultimate focus" lens, which makes both near and far objects equally distinct.
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