Leon Shamroy (1901–1974)

Cinematographer | Camera Department | Director

Leon Shamroy was an American film cinematographer. He is best known for The Black Swan (1942),...

Born: July 16, 1901
Died: July 7, 1974 (age 72)

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Filmography

Known For

Cleopatra Cinematographer (1963)
Leave Her to Heaven Cinematographer (1945)
Planet of the Apes Cinematographer (1968)
Known For

The Black Swan Cinematographer (1942)
Director

Man's Paradise (1938)
Director

The Telltale Heart (1928)
Actor

Caprice Extra (1967)
Cinematographer

Arnie (1970)
Prudence and the Chief (1970)
Justine (1969)
Skidoo (1968)
The Secret Life of an American Wife (1968)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Caprice (1967)
The Glass Bottom Boat (1966)
Do Not Disturb (1965)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
What a Way to Go! (1964)
The Cardinal (1963)
Cleopatra (1963)
Tender Is the Night (1962)
Snow White and the Three Stooges (1961)
North to Alaska (1960)
Wake Me When It's Over (1960)
Beloved Infidel (1959)
The Blue Angel (1959)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
The Bravados (1958)
South Pacific (1958)
Desk Set (1957)
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)
The King and I (1956)
Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955)
Daddy Long Legs (1955)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
The Egyptian (1954)
King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
The Robe (1953)
White Witch Doctor (1953)
The Girl Next Door (1953)
Call Me Madam (1953)
Tonight We Sing (1953)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1952)
Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952)
With a Song in My Heart (1952)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
On the Riviera (1951)
Two Flags West (1950)
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Prince of Foxes (1949)
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Forever Amber (1947)
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (1947)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
State Fair (1945)
Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Greenwich Village (1944)
Wilson (1944)
Buffalo Bill (1944)
Stormy Weather (1943)
Crash Dive (1943)
Claudia (1943)
The Black Swan (1942)
Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)
Roxie Hart (1942)
Confirm or Deny (1941)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
Moon Over Miami (1941)
The Great American Broadcast (1941)
That Night in Rio (1941)
Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
Four Sons (1940)
Lillian Russell (1940)
I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Little Old New York (1940)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Second Fiddle (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Made for Each Other (1939)
Man's Paradise (1938)
The Young in Heart (1938)
Blossoms on Broadway (1937)
She Asked for It (1937)
The Great Gambini (1937)
Her Husband Lies (1937)
You Only Live Once (1937)
Wedding Present (1936)
Spendthrift (1936)
Fatal Lady (1936)
Soak the Rich (1936)
Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935)
She Couldn't Take It (1935)
She Married Her Boss (1935)
Accent on Youth (1935)
Private Worlds (1935)
Behold My Wife! (1934)
Ready for Love (1934)
Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
Are We Civilized? (1934)
Thirty Day Princess (1934)
Good Dame (1934)
Three Cornered Moon (1933)
Her Bodyguard (1933)
Jennie Gerhardt (1933)
The Mystic Hour (1933)
A Strange Adventure (1932)
Stowaway (1932)
Women Men Marry (1931)
Alma de Gaucho (1930)
The Telltale Heart (1928)
Bitter Sweets (1928)
Out with the Tide (1928)
The Last Moment (1928)
Land of the Lawless (1927)
Hidden Aces (1927)
Tongues of Scandal (1927)
The Trunk Mystery (1926)
Cinematographer

Lightning Hutch (1926)
Pirates of the Sky (1926)
Camera and Electrical Department

Footprints on the Moon: Apollo 11 (1969)
The Virgin Queen (1955)
Ever in My Heart (1933)
Archive footage

Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (1996)

Awards

Did You Know

Trivia

President American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) 1947-1948.

[on "Forever Amber"]: There was something strange about that picture. Linda Darnell was burned in the Great Fire of London, and in "Anna And The King Of Siam" she was burned to death as a punishment, and then, it's extraordinary, she actually died ...