Career
Born Gaetano Antonio Gaudio in Cosenza, Italy, he began his career shooting short subjects for Italian film companies. He moved to New York City in 1906 and worked in Vitagraph"s film laboratory until 1909, when he began shooting shorts for the company. His credits include Hell"s Angels (1930), Little Caesar (1931), The Lady Who Dared (1931),, The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936),, God"s Country and the Woman (Warner Bros" first Three-strip Technicolor film, 1937),, High Sierra (1941), Days of Glory (1944), and The Red Pony (1949).
Gaudio was a favorite of Bette Davis and worked on eleven of her films, including Ex-Lady, Fog Over Frisco, Front Page Woman, Bordertown, The Sisters, Juarez, The Letter, and The Great Lie.
He was among the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.