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#1: With c.asst Dick Meinardus [right] [1985]
#2: "Marjorie Morningstar" [1957] - Courtesy of the ASC
HARRY STRADLING Jr.
Born: 7 January 1925, Yonkers, N.Y., USA., as son of doph Harry Stradling Sr. [1901-1970].
Died: 17 October 2017, Motion Picture Home, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Calif., USA.
Career: During the 1940's, he worked as c.asst with Robert Surtees at MGM. Became doph on 7 July 1964.
Was a member of the ASC since 1968.
His great uncle, Walter Ernest Stradling [1875-1918], was a doph working with Mary Pickford.
His sons John and Michael are c.asst.
Awards: 'Oscar' AA nom [1972] for '1776'; 'Oscar' AA nom [1974] for 'The Way We Were'; 'Emmy' Award nom [1984] for 'George Washington' [Part 2].
| FILMS | |
|---|---|
|
1965 |
Synanon/Get Off My Back [Richard Quine] b&w |
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1966 |
Welcome to Hard Times/Killer on a Horse [Burt Kennedy] c; originally made for tv |
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1968 |
With Six You Get Eggroll/A Man in Mommy's Bed [Howard Morris] p/c; cph: Ellsworth Fredericks |
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1968 |
Support Your Local Sheriff! [Burt Kennedy] c |
|
1968 |
The Mad Room [Bernard Girard] c |
|
1968 |
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys [Burt Kennedy] p/c |
With Robert Mitchum - "Young Billy Young"
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1969 |
Young Billy Young [Burt Kennedy] c |
|
1969 |
There Was a Crooked Man... [Joseph L. Mankiewicz] p/c |
|
1969 |
Little Big Man [Arthur Penn] p/c |
|
1970 |
Dirty Dingus Magee [Burt Kennedy] p/c |
|
1970 |
Something Big [Andrew V. McLaglen] c |
|
1970 |
Fools' Parade/Dynamite Man from Glory Jail [Andrew V. McLaglen] c; spec pfx: Lawrence Butler & Donald Glouner |
|
1971 |
Support Your Local Gunfighter/Latigo [Burt Kennedy] c |
|
1971 |
The Late Liz [Dick Ross] c |
|
1972 |
Skyjacked/Sky Terror [John Guillermin] p/c; 2uc: Donald M. Morgan |
|
1972 |
Nightmare Honeymoon/Deadly Honeymoon [Elliot Silverstein (replaced Nicolas Roeg)] c |
|
1972 |
1776 [Peter H. Hunt] p/c; 3 versions: 141m, 166m & 180m |
|
1972 |
Thumb Tripping [Quentin Masters] c; 2uc: Jerry Sims |
|
1972 |
The Way We Were [Sydney Pollack] p/c |
|
1973 |
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing [Richard Sarafian] p/c |
|
1973 |
McQ [John Sturges] p/c; 2uc: Bernie Abramson |
|
1973 |
Bank Shot [Gower Champion] p/c |
|
1974 |
Bite the Bullet [Richard Brooks] p/c |
|
1974 |
Rooster Cogburn [Stuart Millar] p/c; 2uc: Rexford Metz |
|
1974 |
Mitchell [Andrew V. McLaglen] c |
|
1975 |
Midway/[The] Battle of Midway [Jack Smight] p/c |
|
1976 |
The Big Bus [James Frawley] p/c |
|
1976 |
Special Delivery/Dangerous Break [Paul Wendkos] c |
|
1976 |
Damnation Alley/Survival Run [Jack Smight] p/c; 2uc: Rexford Metz; micro ph: Ken Middleham |
|
1976 |
The Greatest [Tom Gries & Monte Hellman (took over after T. Gries died in January 1977)] c |
|
1977 |
Convoy [Sam Peckinpah] p/c; 2uc: Richard Kelley; addph: Robert Hauser |
|
1977 |
Go Tell the Spartans [Ted Post] c |
|
1977 |
Born Again [Irving Rapper] c |
|
1978 |
Prophecy [: The Monster Movie] [John Frankenheimer] p/c |
|
1979 |
Carny [Robert Kaylor] c; spph: Maureen Lambray |
|
1979 |
[Mad Magazine's] Up the Academy [Robert Downey] p/c |
|
1980 |
S.O.B. [Blake Edwards] p/c |
|
1980 |
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper/Pursuit [Roger Spottiswoode (replaced Buzz Kulik)] c; addph: Charles Wheeler |
|
1981 |
Buddy Buddy [Billy Wilder] p/c |
|
1982 |
O'Hara's Wife [William Bartman] c |
|
1984 |
Micki + Maude [Blake Edwards] p/c |
|
1985 |
A Fine Mess [Blake Edwards] p/c; 2uc: Richard Kelley |
|
1986 |
Blind Date [Blake Edwards] p/c |
|
1988 |
Caddyshack II [Allan Arkush] c; vfx ph: Kim Marks |
| TELEVISION |
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|
1964 |
Gunsmoke/Gun Law/Marshall Dillon [30 ep dir by various] 635-part western series/b&w-c, 1955-75 (CBS-tv); 10th season/b&w, 1964-65; other ph: Jack Nickolaus, Fleet Southcott & Frank V. Phillips |
|
1965 |
Gunsmoke/Gun Law/Marshall Dillon [32 ep dir by various] 11th season/b&w, 1965-66; see 1964 |
|
1966 |
Gunsmoke/Gun Law/Marshall Dillon [24 ep dir by various] 12th season/c, 1966-67; see 1964 |
|
1967 |
Gunsmoke/Gun Law/Marshall Dillon [ep #441 'The Prodigal' dir by Bernard McEveety] 13th season/c, 1967-68; see 1964 |
|
1967 |
Cimarron Strip [21 ep dir by various] 23-part western series, 1967-68 (CBS-tv); other ph: Monroe Askins (2 ep) |
|
1983 |
George Washington [Buzz Kulik] 3-part miniseries |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
|---|---|
|
1943 |
Gaslight/Murder in Thornton Square [George Cukor] c.asst; ph: Joseph Ruttenberg |
|
1944 |
Music for Millions [Henry Koster] c.asst; ph: Robert Surtees |
|
1944 |
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes [Roy Rowland] c.asst; ph: Robert Surtees |
|
1945 |
Two Sisters from Boston [Henry Koster] c.asst; ph: Robert Surtees |
|
1947 |
The Kissing Bandit [Laslo Benedek] c.asst; ph: Robert Surtees |
|
1948 |
Act of Violence [Fred Zinnemann] c.asst; ph: Robert Surtees |
|
1949 |
Intruder in the Dust [Clarence Brown] c.asst; ph: Robert Surtees |
|
1949 |
Stars in My Crown [Jacques Tourneur] c.asst; ph: Charles Schoenbaum |
|
1949 |
Mystery Street [John Sturges] c.asst; ph: John Alton |
|
1950 |
A Lady Without Passport [Joseph H. Lewis] c.asst; ph: Paul C. Vogel |
|
1950 |
Watch the Birdie [Jack Donohue] c.asst; ph: Paul C. Vogel |
|
1951 |
The Tall Target [Anthony Mann] c.asst; ph: Paul C. Vogel |
|
1952 |
The Clown [Robert Z. Leonard] c.asst; ph: Paul C. Vogel |
|
1952 |
Young Bess [George Sidney] c.asst; ph: Charles Rosher |
|
1953 |
The Student Prince [Richard Thorpe] co-c.asst; ph: Paul C. Vogel |
|
195? |
Letter to Loretta/The Loretta Young Show/The Loretta Young Theatre [various; tv-series, 1953-61] co-c.op; ph: ? |
|
1955 |
Guys and Dolls [Joseph L. Mankiewicz] c.asst; ph: Harry Stradling Sr. |
|
1956 |
The Pajama Game [George Abbott & Stanley Donen] c.asst; ph: Harry Stradling Sr. |
|
1957 |
Jeanne Eagels [George Sidney] c.asst; ph: Robert Planck |
|
1957 |
Return to Warbow [Ray Nazarro] c.op; ph: Henry Freulich |
Two generations of cinematographer are here at work on the romance "Marjorie Morningstar". Harry Stradling Sr., ASC and future ASC member Harry Stradling Jr. [left], frequently worked together, with the son serving as a camera assistant for his father. Stradling Jr. - who also gained experience working with ASC members John Alton, Paul C. Vogel and Robert H. Planck - earned his first credit as a director of photography on the edgy drama "Synanon" (1965). [Courtesy of the American Society of Cinematographers]
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1957 |
Marjorie Morningstar [Irving Rapper] c.asst; ph: Harry Stradling Sr. |
|
1958 |
Auntie Mame [Morton DaCosta] c.op; ph: Harry Stradling Sr. |
|
1958 |
The Miracle [Irving Rapper] scheduled as c.op with his father as doph, but film was ph by Ernest Haller |
|
1959 |
A Summer Place [Delmer Daves] c.op; ph: Harry Stradling Sr. |
|
1959 |
Cash McCall [Joseph Pevney] c.op; ph: George Folsey |
|
1961 |
Rider on a Dead Horse [Herbert L. Strock] c.op; ph: Frank V. Phillips |
Mamie Eisenhower [guest] - Harry Stradling Jr. - actress Rosalind
Russell - Harry Straling Sr. - "Gypsy"
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1962 |
Gypsy [ Mervyn LeRoy] c.op; ph: Harry Stradling Sr. |
