Leon Shamroy
Highest Rated: 100% The Bravados (1958)
Lowest Rated: 18% Forever Amber (1947)
Birthday: Jul 16, 1901
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Distinguished American cinematographer, best known for his lavish color work on epics and musicals of the 1940s and 50s. Shamroy began shooting features films in the late 1920s and, after a seven-year stint with Paramount (1932-39), spent most of his career at 20th Century-Fox. He worked primarily with Henry King and Walter Lang in the 1940s and was influential in the development of Cinemascope in the 50s. (Shamroy photographed the first film to use the new process, "The Robe," in 1953.) He also worked with Otto Preminger on films such as "Daisy Kenyon" (1947), "Porgy and Bess" (1959) and "The Cardinal" (1964).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87% | 88% | Planet of the Apes | Cinematographer | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | The Secret Life of an American Wife | Cinematographer | - | 1968 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Do Not Disturb | Cinematographer | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home | Cinematographer | - | 1965 |
| 18% | 67% | What a Way to Go! | Cinematographer | - | 1964 |
| 50% | 67% | The Cardinal | Cinematographer | - | 1963 |
| 56% | 69% | Cleopatra | Cinematographer | - | 1963 |
| No Score Yet | 44% | Tender Is the Night | Cinematographer | - | 1962 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wake Me When It's Over | Cinematographer | - | 1960 |
| 50% | 76% | North to Alaska | Cinematographer | - | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Beloved Infidel | Cinematographer | - | 1959 |
| 72% | 77% | Porgy and Bess | Cinematographer | - | 1959 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | The Blue Angel | Cinematographer | - | 1959 |
| 30% | 47% | Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! | Cinematographer | - | 1958 |
| 100% | 68% | The Bravados | Cinematographer | - | 1958 |
| 82% | 69% | South Pacific | Cinematographer | - | 1958 |
| 100% | 83% | Desk Set | Cinematographer | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Best Things in Life Are Free | Cinematographer | - | 1956 |
| 82% | 69% | The Girl Can't Help It | Cinematographer | - | 1956 |
| 93% | 83% | The King and I | Cinematographer | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | Good Morning, Miss Dove | Cinematographer | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 65% | Daddy Long Legs | Cinematographer | - | 1955 |
| 67% | 58% | There's No Business Like Show Business | Cinematographer | - | 1954 |
| 38% | 69% | The Robe | Cinematographer | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 12% | White Witch Doctor | Cinematographer | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | King of the Khyber Rifles | Cinematographer | - | 1953 |
| 67% | 61% | With a Song in My Heart | Cinematographer | - | 1952 |
| 75% | 53% | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Cinematographer | - | 1952 |
| 75% | 32% | David and Bathsheba | Cinematographer | - | 1951 |
| 96% | 86% | Twelve O'Clock High | Cinematographer | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Shocking Miss Pilgrim | Cinematographer | - | 1947 |
| 18% | 48% | Forever Amber | Cinematographer | - | 1947 |
| 94% | 91% | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Cinematographer | - | 1945 |
| 95% | 81% | Stormy Weather | Cinematographer | - | 1943 |
| 82% | 57% | Roxie Hart | Cinematographer | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Moon Over Miami | Cinematographer | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | 31% | A Yank in the RAF | Cinematographer | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Was an Adventuress | Cinematographer | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Lillian Russell | Cinematographer | - | 1940 |
| 89% | 78% | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Cinematographer | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Made for Each Other | Cinematographer | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wayne Murder Case | Cinematographer | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | The Young in Heart | Cinematographer | - | 1938 |
| 100% | 78% | You Only Live Once | Cinematographer | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Spendthrift | Cinematographer | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | She Married Her Boss | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She Couldn't Take It | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | 66% | Thirty Day Princess | Cinematographer | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mystic Hour | Cinematographer | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Her Bodyguard | Cinematographer | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Women Men Marry | Cinematographer | - | 1931 |