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screenwriter cinematographer

Charles Bryant Language, Junior., Army Service Corps was an American cinematographer.

Career

Early in his career, he worked with the Akeley camera, a gyroscope-mounted "pancake" camera designed by Carl Akeley for outdoor action shots. Language"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 Mistress

Muir (1947). In 1951, he began the second phase of his career, this time as a free-lance cinematographer. 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.

Achievements

  • Language won an Academy Award the second time he was nominated, early in his career. He received a total of 18 nominations, tying with Leon Shamroy for the most Academy Award for Best Cinematography nominations ever. A Farewell to Arms (1932) According to IMDb, Language also received Oscar nominations for the following films:.