About

Known credits:
94
Birthday:
1903-09-16
Place of birth:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Website:
N/A

Russell Harlan

Overview

Born Russell September 16, 1903 in Los Angeles, California to Frank and Bertha Harlan, who hailed from Iowa and Missouri. Russell was raised in Los Angeles along with his younger brother Richard (b. 1911). His paternal grandmother Sarah J. Harlan also lived with the family.

Harlan started in the film industry as an actor and stuntman, and by the early 1930s was working behind the camera as an assistant. His first work as lead cinematographer was in 1937, when he filmed four "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns for Harry Sherman Productions. Harlan had a career as a cinematographer that spanned some thirty-three years from 1937 to 1970. He was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, including two in 1962 for his work on Hatari! and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Known for

Directing
1939 The Llano Kid Directing Director N/A
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Camera
1970 Darling Lili Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1967 Tobruk Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1966 Hawaii Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1965 The Great Race Camera Director of Photography 63
Fair
1965 Dear Heart Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1965 Quick, Before It Melts Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1964 Man's Favorite Sport? Camera Director of Photography 61
Fair
1963 A Gathering of Eagles Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1962 To Kill a Mockingbird Camera Director of Photography 76
Good
1962 The Spiral Road Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1962 Hatari! Camera Director of Photography 61
Fair
1960 Sunrise at Campobello Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1960 Pollyanna Camera Director of Photography 61
Fair
1959 Operation Petticoat Camera Director of Photography 64
Fair
1959 Day of the Outlaw Camera Director of Photography 60
Fair
1959 Rio Bravo Camera Director of Photography 72
Good
1958 King Creole Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1958 Run Silent, Run Deep Camera Director of Photography 61
Fair
1957 Witness for the Prosecution Camera Director of Photography 76
Good
1957 This Could Be the Night Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1957 Something of Value Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1956 Lust for Life Camera Director of Photography 62
Fair
1955 Land of the Pharaohs Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1955 Blackboard Jungle Camera Director of Photography 61
Fair
1954 Riot in Cell Block 11 Camera Director of Photography 60
Fair
1952 Ruby Gentry Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1952 The Ring Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1952 The Big Sky Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1951 The Thing from Another World Camera Director of Photography 63
Fair
1950 The Man Who Cheated Himself Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1950 Southside 1-1000 Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1950 The Kangaroo Kid Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1950 Tarzan and the Slave Girl Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1950 Guilty Bystander Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1950 Gun Crazy Camera Director of Photography 64
Fair
1949 Bad Men of Tombstone Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1948 Red River Camera Director of Photography 66
Fair
1948 Four Faces West Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1947 Ramrod Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1945 A Walk in the Sun Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1943 The Woman of the Town Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1943 Tarzan's Desert Mystery Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1943 False Colors Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1943 The Kansan Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1943 Buckskin Frontier Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1942 American Empire Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1942 Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die Camera Director of Photography 58
Average
1941 In Old Colorado Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1940 Stagecoach War Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1940 Light of Western Stars Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1940 The Showdown Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1940 Santa Fe Marshal Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1939 Law of the Pampas Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1939 Renegade Trail Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1939 Heritage of the Desert Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1939 Silver on the Sage Camera Director of Photography N/A
N/A
1938 The Mysterious Rider Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1938 In Old Mexico Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1938 Cassidy of Bar 20 Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1938 Partners of the Plains Camera Director of Photography N/A
N/A
1937 Hopalong Rides Again Camera Director of Photography 59
Average
1937 North of the Rio Grande Camera Director of Photography 59
Average

Crew
1956 The Last Hunt Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1944 Forty Thieves Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1944 Mystery Man Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1944 Lumberjack Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1944 Texas Masquerade Crew Cinematography N/A
N/A
1943 Riders of the Deadline Crew Cinematography 58
Average
1943 Bar 20 Crew Cinematography 58
Average
1943 Colt Comrades Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1943 Leather Burners Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1943 Border Patrol Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1943 Hoppy Serves a Writ Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1942 Lost Canyon Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1942 Undercover Man Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1941 Secret of the Wastelands Crew Cinematography N/A
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1941 Twilight on the Trail Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1941 Riders of the Timberline Crew Cinematography N/A
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1941 Stick to Your Guns Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1941 Wide Open Town Crew Cinematography N/A
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1941 Pirates on Horseback Crew Cinematography N/A
N/A
1941 Border Vigilantes Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1941 Doomed Caravan Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1940 Three Men from Texas Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1940 Hidden Gold Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1939 Range War Crew Cinematography N/A
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1939 Sunset Trail Crew Cinematography N/A
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1938 The Frontiersmen Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1938 Pride of the West Crew Cinematography N/A
N/A
1938 Bar 20 Justice Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1938 Heart of Arizona Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1937 Texas Trail Crew Cinematography 59
Average
1937 Rustlers' Valley Crew Cinematography 59
Average