Camera · b. 1908 · Miami, Oklahoma, USA

Lucien Ballard

Biography

Lucien Ballard, the cinematographer best known for his collaboration with directors Sam Peckinpah and Josef von Sternberg, was born in Miami, Oklahoma. Ballard became a wanderer after dropping out of the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma, journeying to China in search of opportunity. When he returned to the United States after not finding any, Ballard gained employment in the lumber business, working in a mill sawing trees and surveying land. Lucien Ballard died near his Rancho Mirage, California, home in a car accident on October 1, 1988. He was 80 years ol...

Cinematography
Rabbit Test 1978 From Noon Till Three 1976 Drum 1976 St. Ives 1976 Breakheart Pass 1975 Breakout 1975 Chat en poche 1975 Three the Hard Way 1974 Thomasine & Bushrod 1974 The Three Stooges Follies 1974 Lady Ice 1973 The Getaway 1972 Arruza 1972 Junior Bonner 1972 What's the Matter with Helen? 1971 The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970 The Hawaiians 1970 Elvis: That's the Way It Is 1970 The Wild Bunch 1969 True Grit 1969 A Time for Dying 1969 The Party 1968 How Sweet It Is! 1968 Will Penny 1967 Hour of the Gun 1967 Nevada Smith 1966 An Eye for an Eye 1966 Noon Wine 1966 The Sons of Katie Elder 1965 Boeing, Boeing 1965 Dear Brigitte 1965 Roustabout 1964 The New Interns 1964 Wall of Noise 1963 The Caretakers 1963 Take Her, She's Mine 1963 Ride the High Country 1962 Susan Slade 1961 Marines, Let's Go 1961 Ricochet 1961 The Parent Trap 1961 Pay or Die! 1960 The Bramble Bush 1960 Desire in the Dust 1960 The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond 1960 Al Capone 1959 City of Fear 1959 Murder by Contract 1958 Buchanan Rides Alone 1958 I Married a Woman 1958 Anna Lucasta 1958 Band of Angels 1957 The Unholy Wife 1957 The Killing 1956 The King and Four Queens 1956 The Proud Ones 1956 The Killer Is Loose 1956 A Kiss Before Dying 1956 Seven Cities of Gold 1955 The Magnificent Matador 1955 White Feather 1955 Prince Valiant 1954 The Raid 1954 New Faces 1954 Inferno 1953 The Glory Brigade 1953 The Desert Rats 1953 Night Without Sleep 1952 Diplomatic Courier 1952 Return of the Texan 1952 Don't Bother to Knock 1952 Let's Make It Legal 1951 The House on Telegraph Hill 1951 Fixed Bayonets! 1951 Berlin Express 1948 Night Song 1948 Temptation 1946 This Love of Ours 1945 The Lodger 1944 Tonight We Raid Calais 1943 Holy Matrimony 1943 Bomber's Moon 1943 The Undying Monster 1942 Orchestra Wives 1942 Wild Geese Calling 1941 The Villain Still Pursued Her 1940 Let Us Live 1939 Outside These Walls 1939 Blind Alley 1939 Penitentiary 1938 Violent Is the Word for Curly 1938 The Shadow 1937 Man Bites Lovebug 1937 Life Begins with Love 1937 The King Steps Out 1936 Craig's Wife 1936 The Final Hour 1936 The Devil Is a Woman 1935 Crime and Punishment 1935 Morocco 1930
Other Credits
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