Harry Stradling Sr., A.S.C. (1 September 1901-14 February 1970) was an Academy Award-winning an American cinematographer with over 130 films to his credit.
His son Harry Stradling Jr. is also a cinematographer.
Stradling was born in Newark, New Jersey (some sources give Nesen, Germany, or England), the nephew of cameraman Walter Stradling who had worked with Mary Pickford. Confined to two-reelers in Hollywood, he left for France and Germany in th...
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Harry Stradling Sr., A.S.C. (1 September 1901-14 February 1970) was an Academy Award-winning an American cinematographer with over 130 films to his credit.
His son Harry Stradling Jr. is also a cinematographer.
Stradling was born in Newark, New Jersey (some sources give Nesen, Germany, or England), the nephew of cameraman Walter Stradling who had worked with Mary Pickford. Confined to two-reelers in Hollywood, he left for France and Germany in the early 1930s. He made contributions to several Jacques Feyder films, Le Grand Jeu (1934), La Kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders) (1935), Die Klugen Frauen (1936) and Knight Without Armour (1937). In England, he made several films for Alexander Korda among others, including Action for Slander (1937), The Divorce of Lady X (1938), The Citadel (1938), Pygmalion (1938), The Lion Has Wings (1939) and Q Planes (1939).
Stradling moved back to the United States at the beginning of World War II. Alfred Hitchcock engaged him for Jamaica Inn (1939)...
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