Charles Lang

Charles Bryant Lang Jr., A.S.C. (March 27, 1902 – April 3, 1998) was an American cinematographer, active from the silent era through the early 1970's. He won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on A Farewell to Arms, with an additional 17 nominations between 1931 and 1973.

Early life and career

Lang was born in Bluff, Utah, in 1902. His father, Charles B. Lang Sr., was a photographer and explorer of cliff ruins in Utah and the southwestern United States.

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

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

Death On April 3, 1998, Lang died at the age of 96, after suffering from pneumonia.

Academy Awards Lang won an Oscar 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.

Wins A Farewell to Arms (1932)

Nominations Lang also received Oscar nominations for the following films:

The Right to Love (1930) Arise, My Love (1940) Sundown (1941) So Proudly We Hail! (1943) The Uninvited (1944) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) A Foreign Affair (1948) Sudden Fear (1952) Sabrina (1954) Queen Bee (1955) Separate Tables (1958) Some Like It Hot (1959) The Facts of Life (1960) One-Eyed Jacks (1961) How the West Was Won (1962) Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) Butterflies Are Free (1972)