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Joseph Walker
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Cinematographer Born: 1892 in Denver, CO Death: August 1, 1985 in Las Vegas, NV Biography:A cinematographer since the age of 18, Colorado-born "Joseph Walker" began his lifelong association with Columbia Pictures in the mid '20s. At the time, Columbia was a poverty-row outfit spending the least possible amount on its films. Walker learned to work around these production shortcomings by adopting a smoky, soft-focus photographic style, which obscured the fact that the sets were mildewed and on the verge of collapse. When "Frank Capra" was signed by Columbia in 1928, he and Walker launched a collaboration that would result in such top-rank product as "The Miracle Woman" (1931), "The Bitter Tea of General Yen" (1933), "It Happened One Night" (1934), "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936), "Lost Horizon" (1937) and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939). In his self-serving biography, Capra reverses his usual tendency to take credit for every cinematic innovation in his films by lavishing praise and... Full Biography
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