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James Wong Howe
In the USA from 1904, Howe worked his way up from the position of janitor at the Lasky Studios in 1917 to become one of the greatest, and most prolific, Hollywood cinematographers of all time. His achievement seems today all the more remarkable given the paucity of people of Asian descent who were able to obtain major positions in the Hollywood system. The list of directors with whom he worked reads like a history of American cinema, stretching from Victor Fleming and Allan Dwan in the 1920s to Sidney Lumet and John Frankenheimer in the 60s, with a number of landmark figures in between.
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James Wong Howe
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30% |
|
Funny Lady | Cinematographer | - | 1975 |
| 30% |
|
The Horsemen | Cinematographer | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Last of the Mobile Hot-Shots | Cinematographer | - | 1969 |
| 100% |
|
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Cinematographer | - | 1968 |
| 94% |
|
Hombre | Cinematographer | - | 1967 |
| 79% |
|
Seconds | Cinematographer | - | 1966 |
| 62% |
|
This Property Is Condemned | Cinematographer | - | 1966 |
| 60% |
|
The Glory Guys | Cinematographer | - | 1965 |
| 20% |
|
The Outrage | Cinematographer | - | 1964 |
| 86% |
|
Hud | Cinematographer | - | 1963 |
| 76% |
|
Bell, Book and Candle | Cinematographer | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Invisible Avenger | Director | - | 1958 |
| 8% |
|
A Farewell to Arms | Cinematographer | - | 1957 |
| 98% |
|
Sweet Smell of Success | Cinematographer | - | 1957 |
| 50% |
|
Picnic | Cinematographer | $24.0K | 1955 |
| 67% |
|
The Rose Tattoo | Cinematographer | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Go, Man, Go! | Director | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jennifer | Cinematographer | - | 1953 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Main Street to Broadway | Cinematographer | - | 1953 |
| 82% |
|
Come Back, Little Sheba | Cinematographer | - | 1952 |
| 88% |
|
He Ran All the Way | Cinematographer | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Lady Says No | Cinematographer | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Behave Yourself | Cinematographer | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Brave Bulls | Cinematographer | - | 1951 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Eagle and the Hawk | Cinematographer | - | 1950 |
| 86% |
|
The Baron of Arizona | Cinematographer | - | 1950 |
| 86% |
|
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House | Cinematographer | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Nora Prentiss | Cinematographer | - | 1947 |
| 100% |
|
Pursued | Cinematographer | - | 1947 |
| 92% |
|
Body and Soul | Cinematographer | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet |
|
My Reputation | Cinematographer | - | 1946 |
| 86% |
|
Objective, Burma! | Cinematographer | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Danger Signal | Cinematographer | - | 1945 |
| 87% |
|
Hangmen Also Die | Cinematographer | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The North Star | Cinematographer | - | 1943 |
| 82% |
|
Air Force | Cinematographer | - | 1943 |
| 91% |
|
Yankee Doodle Dandy | Cinematographer | - | 1942 |
| 100% |
|
Kings Row | Cinematographer | - | 1942 |
| 100% |
|
The Strawberry Blonde | Cinematographer | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Out of the Fog | Cinematographer | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Dispatch From Reuters | Cinematographer | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Saturday's Children | Cinematographer | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasia | Cinematographer | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daughters Courageous | Cinematographer | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On Your Toes | Cinematographer | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Algiers | Cinematographer | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Cinematographer | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Comet Over Broadway | Cinematographer | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Under the Red Robe | Cinematographer | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Whipsaw | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Amateur Daddy | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | O'Shaughnessy's Boy | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Flame Within | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Biography of a Bachelor Girl | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |
| 98% |
|
The Thin Man | Cinematographer | - | 1934 |
| 81% |
|
Manhattan Melodrama | Cinematographer | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have a Heart | Cinematographer | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Stamboul Quest | Cinematographer | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beauty for Sale | Cinematographer | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Transatlantic | Cinematographer | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Criminal Code | Cinematographer | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Yellow Ticket | Cinematographer | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Surrender | Cinematographer | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rescue | Cinematographer | - | 1929 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Desert Nights | Cinematographer | - | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sorrell and Son | Cinematographer | - | 1927 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Padlocked | Producer | - | 1926 |