Loyal Griggs

This director of photography entered the film industry right out of school, signing up with Paramount in 1924 and staying with that studio until 1969 (probably a record for longevity with one studio). Griggs worked in the studio's process department, first as an assistant photographer (on such features as Henry Hathaway's "Spawn of the North" 1938, Mitchell Leisen's "To Each His Own" 1946 and John Farrow's "Easy Come, Easy Go" 1947) before moving up to second unit photographer ("Tripoli" 1950) and camera process photographer (George Stevens' "A Place in the Sun" 1951). In 1951, he was hired by Lewis R Foster as director of photography on three films: the gangster feature "Crosswinds," and the Westerns "Passage West" and "The Last Outpost": Griggs specialized in that genre, shooting eleven in all. His other films ranged from crime dramas to musicals to period epics.