Charles Lang
Highest Rated: 100% The Man From Laramie (1955)
Lowest Rated: 20% Queen Bee (1955)
Birthday: Mar 27, 1902
Birthplace: Bluff, Utah, USA
During a career that spanned over half a century, cinematographer Charles Lang worked with directors ranging from Dorothy Arzner ("Anybody's Woman" 1930) to George Cukor ("Zaza" 1939) to Anthony Mann ("The Man from Laramie" 1955) and Paul Mazursky ("Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" 1969). One of the key talents responsible for the look of Paramount Studio's films during the 1930s and 40s, Lang helped establish the softer, romanticized side of the studio's ornate, glossy, vaguely European visual style. Some of Lang's best work features a supple use of camera movement and an atmospheric, translucent lighting which washes gently through interiors, most notably in such tender love stories and wispy light comedies as Frank Borzage's "A Farewell to Arms" (1932) and "Desire" (1936), Mitchell Leisen's "Cradle Song" (1933), Ernst Lubitsch's "Angel" (1937), and Henry Hathaway's stunning romantic fantasy, "Peter Ibbetson" (1935). Like most Hollywood cinematographers of the classical period, however, Lang worked in all genres, and his work included action epics ("Lives of a Bengal Lancer" 1935) as well as the more brittle, stinging comedy of such classics as Mae West's first starrer, "She Done Him Wrong" (1933) and Leisen's delightful "Midnight" (1939).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 62% | Forty Carats | Cinematography | - | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Love Machine | Cinematography | - | 1971 |
| 79% | 65% | Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice | Cinematography | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | A Flea in Her Ear | Cinematography | - | 1968 |
| 96% | 91% | Wait Until Dark | Cinematography | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | Not With My Wife, You Don't! | Cinematography | - | 1966 |
| 100% | 88% | How to Steal a Million | Cinematography | - | 1966 |
| 50% | 56% | Sex and the Single Girl | Cinematography | - | 1964 |
| 80% | 86% | Father Goose | Cinematography | - | 1964 |
| 94% | 92% | Charade | Cinematography | - | 1963 |
| 29% | 67% | Blue Hawaii | Cinematography | - | 1962 |
| 86% | 74% | How the West Was Won | Cinematography | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Summer and Smoke | Cinematography | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Facts of Life | Cinematography | - | 1960 |
| 89% | 88% | The Magnificent Seven | Cinematography | - | 1960 |
| 91% | 80% | Last Train From Gun Hill | Cinematography | - | 1959 |
| 94% | 94% | Some Like It Hot | Cinematography | - | 1959 |
| 65% | 75% | Separate Tables | Cinematography | - | 1958 |
| 85% | 69% | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | Cinematography | - | 1957 |
| 91% | 62% | Autumn Leaves | Cinematography | - | 1956 |
| 100% | 78% | The Man From Laramie | Cinematography | - | 1955 |
| 20% | 57% | Queen Bee | Cinematography | - | 1955 |
| 93% | 89% | Sabrina | Cinematography | - | 1954 |
| 100% | 90% | The Big Heat | Cinematography | - | 1953 |
| 92% | 84% | Sudden Fear | Cinematography | - | 1952 |
| 92% | 92% | Ace in the Hole | Cinematography | - | 1951 |
| 80% | 72% | Fancy Pants | Cinematography | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | The Great Lover | Cinematography | - | 1949 |
| 100% | 78% | A Foreign Affair | Cinematography | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 88% | The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | Cinematography | - | 1947 |
| 75% | 66% | Blue Skies | Cinematography | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | 53% | The Stork Club | Cinematography | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Miss Susie Slagle's | Cinematography | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Forest Rangers | Cinematography | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Skylark | Cinematography | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Nothing but the Truth | Cinematography | - | 1941 |
| 86% | 76% | The Ghost Breakers | Cinematography | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | The Cat and the Canary | Cinematography | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spawn of the North | Cinematography | - | 1938 |
| 100% | 77% | Desire | Cinematography | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 63% | Peter Ibbetson | Cinematography | - | 1935 |
| 88% | 78% | Death Takes a Holiday | Cinematography | - | 1934 |
| 90% | 53% | She Done Him Wrong | Cinematography | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Bedtime Story | Cinematography | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Devil and the Deep | Cinematography | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Unfaithful | Cinematography | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Magnificent Lie | Cinematography | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Right to Love | Cinematography | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | 25% | For the Defense | Cinematography | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Anybody's Woman | Cinematography | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Sarah and Son | Cinematography | - | 1930 |