John Alton
Highest Rated: 100% Raw Deal (1948)
Lowest Rated: 17% The Catered Affair (1956)
Birthday: Oct 5, 1901
Birthplace: Sopron, Austria-Hungary
The Hungarian-born John Alton, who emigrated to the USA in 1919, shot his first films in Argentina in the 1930s and began his prolific Hollywood career with "The Courageous Dr. Christian" (1940), directed by Bernard Vorhaus. He demonstrated a masterful command of chiaroscuro, the representation of light and shade without regard to color, with his work for Anthony Mann, notably "T-Men" (1947) and "Border Incident" (1949). Alton became known as a master of film noir, as well for his visual puns, usually involving shadows.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stay | Leo (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 94% | 87% | Elmer Gantry | Cinematographer | - | 1960 |
| 82% | 68% | Designing Woman | Cinematographer | - | 1957 |
| 82% | 76% | Tea and Sympathy | Cinematographer | - | 1956 |
| 17% | 72% | The Catered Affair | Cinematographer | - | 1956 |
| 93% | 80% | The Big Combo | Cinematographer | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Tennessee's Partner | Cinematographer | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 38% | Pearl of the South Pacific | Cinematographer | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escape to Burma | Cinematographer | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Passion | Cinematographer | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | Cattle Queen of Montana | Cinematographer | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Silver Lode | Cinematographer | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 30% | Take the High Ground | Cinematographer | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | I, the Jury | Cinematographer | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Washington Story | Cinematographer | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Talk About a Stranger | Cinematographer | - | 1952 |
| 100% | 61% | Father's Little Dividend | Cinematographer | - | 1951 |
| 95% | 79% | An American in Paris | Cinematographer | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet | 64% | Devil's Doorway | Cinematographer | - | 1950 |
| 67% | 59% | Border Incident | Cinematographer | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | The Crooked Way | Cinematographer | - | 1949 |
| 78% | 62% | He Walked by Night | Cinematographer | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 82% | Raw Deal | Cinematographer | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 74% | T-Men | Cinematographer | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Ghost Goes Wild | Cinematographer | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | The Pretender | Cinematographer | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Storm Over Lisbon | Cinematographer | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Enemy of Women | Cinematographer | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Forced Landing | Cinematographer | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Power Dive | Cinematographer | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Meet Dr. Christian | Cinematographer | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La vida bohemia | Cinematographer | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Escala en la Ciudad | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |