Burnett Guffey
Born: 1905-05-26 in Del Rio, Tennessee, USA
Died: 1983-05-30
Known For: Camera
Biography
While still a teenager, the future Academy Award-winning lensman began as an assistant cameraman in 1923 on John Ford's 1924 western saga The Iron Horse. He was then hired by the Famous Players-Lasky Studios in 1927, became a camera operator in 1928 and worked there until 1943. Guffey was hired as a Director of Photography by Columbia Pictures in 1944. In 1957-58 he served as president of the American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.) for a year, and had been a long standing member. According to film critic Spencer Selby, Guffey was a prolific film noir cinematographer, shooting 20 of them, including In a Lonely Place (1950).
Filmography
1971
- The Steagle ... (Director of Photography)
1970
- Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? ... (Director of Photography)
- The Great White Hope ... (Director of Photography)
- Halls of Anger ... (Director of Photography)
1969
- Where It's At ... (Director of Photography)
- The Madwoman of Chaillot ... (Director of Photography)
- The Moviemakers as Self
- The Learning Tree ... (Director of Photography)
- Some Kind of a Nut ... (Director of Photography)
- My Father: Gordon Parks as Self
1968
- The Split ... (Director of Photography)
1967
- Bonnie and Clyde ... (Director of Photography)
- How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying ... (Director of Photography)
- The Ambushers ... (Director of Photography)
1966
- The Silencers ... (Director of Photography)
1965
- King Rat ... (Director of Photography)
1964
- Good Neighbor Sam ... (Director of Photography)
- Flight from Ashiya ... (Director of Photography)
1962
- Birdman of Alcatraz ... (Director of Photography)
- Kid Galahad ... (Director of Photography)
1961
- Mr. Sardonicus ... (Director of Photography)
- Homicidal ... (Director of Photography)
- Cry for Happy ... (Director of Photography)
1960
- Hell to Eternity ... (Director of Photography)
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph ... (Director of Photography)
- The Mountain Road ... (Director of Photography)
1959
- Gidget ... (Director of Photography)
- They Came to Cordura ... (Director of Photography)
- Edge of Eternity ... (Director of Photography)
- Dogface ... (Director of Photography)
1958
- Screaming Mimi ... (Director of Photography)
- Me and the Colonel ... (Director of Photography)
- The True Story of Lynn Stuart ... (Director of Photography)
1957
- Decision at Sundown ... (Director of Photography)
- The Brothers Rico ... (Director of Photography)
- The Strange One ... (Director of Photography)
- Not One Shall Die ... (Director of Photography)
1956
- The Harder They Fall ... (Director of Photography)
- Nightfall ... (Director of Photography)
- Battle Stations ... (Director of Photography)
- Storm Center ... (Director of Photography)
1955
- Tight Spot ... (Director of Photography)
- The Violent Men ... (Director of Photography)
- Three Stripes in the Sun ... (Director of Photography)
- Count Three and Pray ... (Director of Photography)
1954
- Human Desire ... (Director of Photography)
- Private Hell 36 ... (Director of Photography)
- The Bamboo Prison ... (Director of Photography)
1953
- From Here to Eternity ... (Director of Photography)
- The Last Posse ... (Director of Photography)
1952
- The Sniper ... (Director of Photography)
- Scandal Sheet ... (Director of Photography)
- Assignment: Paris ... (Director of Photography)
1951
- Sirocco ... (Director of Photography)
- The Family Secret ... (Director of Photography)
- Two of a Kind ... (Director of Photography)
1950
- In a Lonely Place ... (Director of Photography)
- Convicted ... (Director of Photography)
- Emergency Wedding ... (Director of Photography)
- Father Is a Bachelor ... (Director of Photography)
1949
- All the King's Men ... (Director of Photography)
- Knock on Any Door ... (Director of Photography)
- And Baby Makes Three ... (Director of Photography)
- The Reckless Moment ... (Director of Photography)
- The Undercover Man ... (Director of Photography)
1948
- To the Ends of the Earth ... (Director of Photography)
- The Sign of the Ram ... (Director of Photography)
- The Gallant Blade ... (Director of Photography)
1947
- Framed ... (Director of Photography)
- Johnny O'Clock ... (Director of Photography)
1946
- Night Editor ... (Director of Photography)
- Gallant Journey ... (Director of Photography)
- So Dark the Night ... (Director of Photography)
- Meet Me on Broadway ... (Director of Photography)
- The Notorious Lone Wolf ... (Director of Photography)
- A Bird in the Head ... (Director of Photography)
1945
- My Name Is Julia Ross ... (Director of Photography)
- I Love a Mystery ... (Director of Photography)
- Eve Knew Her Apples ... (Director of Photography)
- Eadie Was a Lady ... (Director of Photography)
- Blonde from Brooklyn ... (Director of Photography)
1944
- The Soul of a Monster ... (Director of Photography)
- Tahiti Nights ... (Director of Photography)
- Kansas City Kitty ... (Director of Photography)
- Sailor's Holiday ... (Director of Photography)
1937
- You Only Live Once ... (Assistant Camera)
1935
- The Informer ... (Camera Operator)
1932
- The Conquerors ... (Camera Operator)
1928
- Love Over Night ... (Assistant Camera)
1927
- The Yankee Clipper ... (Assistant Camera)
1925
- The Iron Horse ... (Additional Photography)
1923
- The Courtship of Miles Standish ... (Assistant Camera)