Lucien Ballard
Lucien Ballard, the cinematographer best known for his collaboration with directors Sam Peckinpah and Josef von Sternberg, was born in Miami, Oklahoma. Ballard became a wanderer after dropping out of the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma, journeying to China in search of opportunity. When he returned to the United States after not finding any, Ballard gained employment in the lumber business, working in a mill sawing trees and surveying land. Lucien Ballard died near his Rancho Mirage, California, home in a car accident on October 1, 1988. He was 80 years old.
Known for
CameraBirthday
May 6, 1908Deathday
October 1, 1988Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
118Place of birth
Miami, Oklahoma, USACrew credits
The Killing
Director of PhotographyThe Wild Bunch
Director of PhotographyWill Penny
Director of PhotographyRoustabout
Director of PhotographyThe Party
Director of PhotographyNight Without Sleep
Director of PhotographyDiplomatic Courier
Director of PhotographyThe New Interns
Director of PhotographyThe Getaway
Director of PhotographyNevada Smith
Director of PhotographyFrom Noon Till Three
Director of PhotographyThe Ballad of Cable Hogue
Director of PhotographyLet's Make It Legal
Director of PhotographyTonight We Raid Calais
Director of PhotographyThe House on Telegraph Hill
Director of PhotographyThe Lodger
Director of PhotographyRide the High Country
Director of PhotographyBerlin Express
Director of PhotographyPay or Die!
Director of PhotographyAl Capone
Director of PhotographyInferno
Director of Photography