![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Cinematographer Born: September 2, 1901 in England Death: February 14, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:The nephew of cameraman "Walter Stradling", who worked with "Mary Pickford" in the 1910s and '20s, British-born cinematographer "Harry Stradling" began manning the Bell and Howell himself in the mid-'20s. Confined to programmers and two-reelers in Hollywood, Stradling packed up his equipment and headed for France in 1934, almost immediately distinguishing himself with his work on the director "Jacques Feyder"'s film classic "Carnival in Flanders" (1935). He then moved to England, where he worked on the 1939 "Alfred Hitchcock" picture "Jamaica Inn". Hitchcock called upon Stradling to shoot two of his early Hollywood films, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (1941) and "Suspicion" (1941). Resettling in Hollywood, Stradling went on to win an Oscar for his work on "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1946). He continued turning out superior work on such films as "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) and "My Fair Lady" (1964)... Full Biography
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