People
Lucien Ballard
Camera · follow into films and chains
Biography
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.
Notable films
Where to start
Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Wild Bunch
Appears in a KinoChain journey
The Parent Trap
Director of Photography
The Killing
Director of Photography
Morocco
Director of Photography
Breakheart Pass
Director of Photography
Ride the High Country
Director of Photography
Nevada Smith
Director of Photography
Breakout
Director of Photography
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Criminal Alliances
A chain tracing the anti-hero ensemble film from its war-movie origins through heist, western, and genre mutations to the modern comic-book iteration, examining...
8 films
The Long Goodbye: Twilight of Heroes and Outlaws
There is a moment in Richard Lester's Robin and Marian (1976) that cuts deeper than any broadsword. Sean Connery, sporting grey in his beard and exhaustion in h...
8 films
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