William C. Mellor was an American cinematographer, who’s career in filmmaking spanned almost three decades. He was nominated for 3 Oscars throughout his career and won 2.
William C. Mellor Biography / Wiki
| Name | William C. Mellor |
| Also Know | William Mellor |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Camera |
| Place of Birth | Missouri, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1903-06-29 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 59 |
| Deathday | 1963-04-30 |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Giant | Director of Photography | 1956-11-08 | Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She m… |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told | Director of Photography | 1965-02-15 | From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. M… |
| The Diary of Anne Frank | Director of Photography | 1959-03-18 | The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam…. |
| The Last Frontier | Director of Photography | 1955-12-07 | Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain (Guy Madison) who loses his fort to a hated colonel (Robert Preston)…. |
| Too Late for Tears | Director of Photography | 1949-07-17 | One night on a lonely highway, a speeding car tosses a satchel of money, meant for somebody else, into Jane and Alan Palmer’s back seat. Alan wants to… |
| Compulsion | Director of Photography | 1959-04-01 | Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishm… |
| Bad Day at Black Rock | Director of Photography | 1955-01-13 | One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, sec… |
| Peyton Place | Director of Photography | 1957-12-13 | In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion — which re… |
| The Next Voice You Hear… | Director of Photography | 1950-06-29 | The Next Voice You Hear… (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world…. |
| Love in the Afternoon | Director of Photography | 1957-05-29 | Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour wi… |
| The Unknown Man | Director of Photography | 1951-11-09 | A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he”s gotten off was really guilty…. |
| The Fleet’s In | Director of Photography | 1942-01-24 | Shy sailor Casey Kirby suddenly becomes known as a sea wolf when his picture is taken with a famous actress. Things get complicated when bets are plac… |
| Westward the Women | Director of Photography | 1951-12-16 | There’s a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order b… |
| My Man and I | Director of Photography | 1952-09-05 | In California, a Mexican-American is falsely accused of killing the farmer he was working for after the racist farmer stiffed his immigrant employee w… |
| Without Regret | Director of Photography | 1935-09-13 | In order to save herself while in China, a woman marries a young drifter and is able to return to England. Later, believing that her new husband is de… |
| The Great McGinty | Director of Photography | 1940-08-01 | Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city’s political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this br… |
| The Great Man’s Lady | Director of Photography | 1942-04-15 | In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is… |
| Give a Girl a Break | Director of Photography | 1953-11-13 | When the temperamental star of a new Broadway musical revue in rehearsals walks out, director and choreographer Ted Sturgis suggests casting an unknow… |
| Beyond the Blue Horizon | Director of Photography | 1942-06-25 | A young girl’s parents are killed on a tropical island, and the girl is raised and protected by the jungle animals. When she is found, as a grown woma… |
| Thrill of a Lifetime | Director of Photography | 1937-12-03 | “Howdy” Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He i… |
| Moon Over Burma | Director of Photography | 1940-07-26 | The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon…. |
| The Magnificent Fraud | Director of Photography | 1939-07-19 | A Chicago con man (Lloyd Nolan) pays an actor (Akim Tamiroff) to pose as a slain South American dictator…. |
| Hotel Imperial | Director of Photography | 1939-05-11 | It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man’s-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of W… |
| Road to Singapore | Director of Photography | 1940-03-22 | Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet Dorothy Lamour…… |
| Typhoon | Director of Photography | 1940-05-16 | Two men searching for black pearls are marooned on an island when their crew mutinies. There they run into a beautiful girl who had been washed up on … |
| Birth of the Blues | Director of Photography | 1941-11-07 | Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which… |
| Bulldog Drummond Comes Back | Director of Photography | 1937-09-24 | Drummond’s girlfriend is kidnapped by his enemies and he along with his friend Nielsen, an inspector from Scotland Yard, follow the trail and try to r… |
| Road to Morocco | Director of Photography | 1942-11-10 | Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar…. |
| Skirts Ahoy! | Director of Photography | 1952-05-28 | Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn’t long marches or several weeks in a small b… |
| Across the Wide Missouri | Director of Photography | 1951-10-12 | In the 1830’s beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho. Flint marries a Bl… |
| My Favorite Blonde | Director of Photography | 1942-04-02 | Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded… |
| Exclusive | Director of Photography | 1937-08-06 | When Mountain City racketeer Charles Gillette is acquitted, he arrives at the Mountain City World newsroom and vows revenge on the Better Government C… |
| Woman Obsessed | Director of Photography | 1959-05-27 | After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drift… |
| The Big Gamble | Director of Photography | 1961-07-25 | Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation i… |
| Commandos Strike at Dawn | Director of Photography | 1942-12-30 | A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force a… |
| A Place in the Sun | Director of Photography | 1951-06-12 | An ambitious young man wins an heiress’s heart but has to cope with his former girlfriend’s pregnancy…. |
| Make Way for Tomorrow | Director of Photography | 1937-05-09 | At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents’ home is being foreclosed. “Temporarily,” Ma moves in with son George’s family, Pa with d… |
| Abie’s Irish Rose | Director of Photography | 1946-12-27 | Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl…. |
| Back from Eternity | Director of Photography | 1956-09-07 | A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then disco… |
| Johnny Concho | Director of Photography | 1956-07-01 | In Johnny Concho, Frank Sinatra plays a man who goes from the town bully to town coward!… |
| $1,000 a Touchdown | Director of Photography | 1939-10-04 | A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score…. |
| Crack in the Mirror | Director of Photography | 1960-05-19 | A Story of two love triangles…… |
| Alaska Seas | Director of Photography | 1954-01-27 | A crooked salmon fishermantries to steal his best friend’s fiancée and put him out of business…. |
| Blaze of Noon | Director of Photography | 1947-05-02 | In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires… |
| Woman Trap | Director of Photography | 1936-03-06 | A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the m… |
| The Naked Spur | Director of Photography | 1953-01-30 | Howard Kemp has been tracking killer Ben Vandergroat for a long time. In the Colorado Rockies, he teams up with prospector Jesse Tate and former Union… |
| The Best of Everything | Director of Photography | 1959-10-09 | An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups…. |
| Enter Madame | Director of Photography | 1935-01-04 | Man marries opera singer, winds up taking back seat to her career…. |
| Disputed Passage | Director of Photography | 1939-10-25 | A doctor’s medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs int… |
| Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation | Director of Photography | 1962-06-15 | Banker Roger Hobbs wants to spend his vacation alone with his wife, Peggy, but she insists on a family vacation at a California beach house that turns… |
| Car 99 | Director of Photography | 1935-03-02 | A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie… |
| The Affairs of Dobie Gillis | Director of Photography | 1953-08-14 | Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis – women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy’s father, even though and maybe because she says she’… |
| Bulldog Drummond in Africa | Director of Photography | 1938-08-05 | Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an internat… |
| Love Happy | Director of Photography | 1949-10-12 | The Marx Brothers help young Broadway hopefuls when they get mixed up with gangsters due to a tin of sardines containing Romanoff diamonds…. |
| Cleopatra | Camera Operator | 1934-10-05 | The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar…. |
| Wild in the Country | Director of Photography | 1961-06-15 | A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career…. |
| Big Leaguer | Director of Photography | 1953-08-19 | John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor… |
| Ride a Crooked Mile | Director of Photography | 1938-12-09 | The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison…. |
| Wagon Wheels | Director of Photography | 1934-09-15 | A wagon train heads west from Independence, Mo., along the Oregon Trail, led by proud cowboy Clint Belmet. On board are feisty young widow Nancy Welli… |
| Man-Eater of Kumaon | Director of Photography | 1948-11-08 | A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts t… |
| Romance in the Dark | Director of Photography | 1938-03-24 | A baritone aids a young servant in making her dream of singing professionally come true…. |
| Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven | Director of Photography | 1948-07-16 | Eddie Tayloe’s grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and … |
| Wake Island | Director of Photography | 1942-08-11 | In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men’s tropical… |
| Carbine Williams | Cinematography | 1952-05-01 | David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine autom… |
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