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Charles Lang

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Charles Bryant Lang, Jr., A.S.C. (born March 27, 1902, Bluff, Utah – died April 3, 1998, Santa Monica, California) was an American cinematographer.

Early in his career, he worked with the Akeley camera, a gyroscope-mounted "pancake" camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots. Lang's first credits were as co-cinematographer on the silent films The Night Patrol (1926) and The Loves of Ricardo (1927).

After completing Tom Sawyer for Paramount Pictures in 1930, he continued working at the studio for more than twenty years. The style of lighting he introduced in A Farewell to Arms became heavily identified with all of Paramount's films during the 1930s and 1940s, though he occasionally worked for other studios, for instance on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947).

In 1951, he began the second phase of his career, this time as a free-lance cinematographer.[1] His credits include The Big Heat (1953) with Glenn Ford and Lee Marvin, Sabrina (1954) with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, The Matchmaker (1958), Some Like It Hot (1959) with Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon, The Magnificent Seven (1960) with Steve McQueen, One-Eyed Jacks (1961) with Marlon Brando, How the West Was Won (1962) in Cinerama, Charade (1963) with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), and Butterflies Are Free (1972).

Lang received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1991, for a career which included at least 114 feature films.

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40 Carats

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Butterflies Are Free

1972

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The Love Machine

1971

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Doctors' Wives

1971

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A Walk in the Spring Rain

1970

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Cactus Flower

1969

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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

1969

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How to Commit Marriage

1969

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The Stalking Moon

1968

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A Flea In Her Ear

1968

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Wait Until Dark

1967

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The Flim-Flam Man

1967

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Hotel

1967

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Not with My Wife, You Don't!

1966

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How to Steal a Million

1966

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Inside Daisy Clover

1965

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Sex and the Single Girl

1964

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Father Goose

1964

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Paris When It Sizzles

1964

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Charade

1963

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The Wheeler Dealers

1963

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Critic's Choice

1963

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A Girl Named Tamiko

1962

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How the West Was Won

1962

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Blue Hawaii

1961

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Summer and Smoke

1961

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One-Eyed Jacks

1961

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The Facts of Life

1960

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Strangers When We Meet

1960

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The Magnificent Seven

1960

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Last Train from Gun Hill

1959

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Some Like It Hot

1959

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Separate Tables

1958

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The Matchmaker

1958

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Wild Is the Wind

1957

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Loving You

1957

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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

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The Rainmaker

1956

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The Solid Gold Cadillac

1956

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Autumn Leaves

1956

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Queen Bee

1955

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Female on the Beach

1955

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The Man from Laramie

1955

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Phffft

1954

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Sabrina

1954

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It Should Happen to You

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The Big Heat

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Salome

1953

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Sudden Fear

1952

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The Atomic City

1952

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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick

1952

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Red Mountain

1951

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Peking Express

1951

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Ace in the Hole

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The Mating Season

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Copper Canyon

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Branded

1950

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September Affair

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Fancy Pants

1950

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The Great Lover

1949

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Rope of Sand

1949

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Miss Tatlock's Millions

1948

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A Foreign Affair

1948

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My Own True Love

1948

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Where There's Life

1947

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Desert Fury

1947

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947

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Cross My Heart

1946

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Blue Skies

1946

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Miss Susie Slagle's

1946

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The Stork Club

1945

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I Love a Soldier

1945

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Here Come the Waves

1944

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The Uninvited

1944

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True to Life

1943

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So Proudly We Hail

1943

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No Time for Love

1943

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Are Husbands Necessary?

1942

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The Lady Has Plans

1942

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Skylark

1941

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Sundown

1941

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Nothing But the Truth

1941

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The Shepherd of the Hills

1941

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Arise, My Love

1940

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Dancing on a Dime

1940

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The Ghost Breakers

1940

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Buck Benny Rides Again

1940

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Women Without Names

1940

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Adventure in Diamonds

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The Cat and the Canary

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The Gracie Allen Murder Case

1939

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Midnight

1939

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Zaza

1938

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Spawn of the North

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You and Me

1938

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Tovarich

1937

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Angel

1937

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Souls at Sea

1937

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Desire

1936

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Peter Ibbetson

1935

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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

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She Loves Me Not

1934

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Death Takes a Holiday

1934

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Cradle Song

1933

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The Way to Love

1933

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Gambling Ship

1933

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A Bedtime Story

1933

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A Farewell to Arms

1932

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Devil and the Deep

1932

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Once a Lady

1931

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The Vice Squad

1931

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Unfaithful

1931

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The Right to Love

1930

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Tom Sawyer

1930

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Anybody's Woman

1930

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For the Defense

1930

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The Light of Western Stars

1930

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Sarah and Son

1930

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Street of Chance

1930

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Seven Days' Leave

1930

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Behind the Make-Up

1930

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The Shopworn Angel

1928

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Charles Lang

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