About Lester Lang
Lived 1896 – 1968 (aged 71–72). Lester Lang was a cinematographer.
Lester Lang was an American cinematographer known for lensing several of Oscar Micheaux's films in the 1930s.
Biography Lester was born in Union City, New Jersey, to John Lang and Elizabeth Frank. He married Lillian Sutherland, and the pair had three children together. She died suddenly in 1942. He worked as a photographer for 22 years at New York race tracks, and was one of the early cinematographers working in the film industry in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The Darktown Revue (1931) The Exile (1931) The House of Secrets (1929) The Mad Marriage (1925) The Mohican's Daughter (1922)
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Who was Lester Lang?
American cinematographer
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Lester Lang was born on 15 August 1896 in Fort Lee.
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Lester Lang died in 1968.
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Lester Lang was a cinematographer.
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