Joseph MacDonald explained

Joseph MacDonald, A.S.C.
Birth Name:	Joseph Patrick MacDonald
Birth Date:	26 May 1906
Birth Place:	Mexico City, Mexico
Death Place:	Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation:	Cinematographer

Joseph Patrick MacDonald, A.S.C. (December 15, 1906 - May 26, 1968) was a Mexico-born American cinematographer. An assistant cameraman from the early 1920s, he became a cinematographer in the 1940s and soon was working on Hollywood productions, mostly at 20th Century Fox. He was usually billed as Joe MacDonald. He was the first Mexico-born cinematographer, and only the second overall, after Leon Shamroy, to film a movie in CinemaScope (How to Marry a Millionaire), as well as the first Mexico-born cinematographer to film a movie in Deluxe Color.

Select filmography

• Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)
• Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942)
• Wintertime (1943)
• Quiet Please, Murder (1943)
• Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)
• In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
• The Big Noise (1944)
• Captain Eddie (1945)
• My Darling Clementine (1946)
• Shock (1946)
• The Dark Corner (1946)
• Wake Up and Dream (1946)
• Behind Green Lights (1946)
• Moss Rose (1947)
• Call Northside 777 (1948)
• The Street with No Name (1948)
• Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
• Yellow Sky (1949)
• It Happens Every Spring (1949)
• Pinky (1949)
• Stella (1950)
• Panic in the Streets (1950)
• As Young as You Feel (1951)
• You're in the Navy Now (1951)
• Fourteen Hours (1951)
• Viva Zapata! (1952)
• What Price Glory (1952)
• O. Henry's Full House (1952)
• Niagara (1953)
• Pickup on South Street (1953)
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
• Titanic (1953)
• Broken Lance (1954)
• Woman's World (1954)
• Hell and High Water (1954)
• The Racers (1955)
• House of Bamboo (1955)
• Hilda Crane (1956)
• On the Threshold of Space (1956)
• Teenage Rebel (1956)
• The True Story of Jesse James (1956)
• Bigger Than Life (1956)
• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
• A Hatful of Rain (1957)
• The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958)
• Ten North Frederick (1958)
• The Young Lions (1958)
• Warlock (1959)
• Pepe (1960)
• The Gallant Hours (1960)
• The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
• 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)
• Taras Bulba (1962)
• Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
• Kings of the Sun (1963)
• The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
• Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
• The Carpetbaggers (1964)
• Rio Conchos (1964)
• Flight from Ashiya (1964)
• Where Love Has Gone (1964)
• The Reward (1965)
• Mirage (1965)
• Alvarez Kelly (1966)
• The Sand Pebbles (1966)
• Blindfold (1966)
• A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
• Mackenna's Gold (1969; released posthumously)

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Accolades

Nominations

• Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, for The Young Lions; 1959.
• Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, for Pepe; 1961.
• Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, for The Sand Pebbles; 1967.

Notes and References

1. Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to World Film, since 1885 (2008).