B
Burnett Guffey
Camera
Born May 26, 1905 in Del Rio, Tennessee, USA
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.
Filmography
The Steagle
The Great White Hope
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
Halls of Anger
My Father: Gordon Parks
Self
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Some Kind of a Nut
The Learning Tree
Where It's At
The Moviemakers
Self
The Split
The Ambushers
Bonnie and Clyde
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
The Silencers
King Rat
Good Neighbor Sam
Flight from Ashiya
Kid Galahad
Birdman of Alcatraz
Mr. Sardonicus
Homicidal
Cry for Happy
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
Hell to Eternity
The Mountain Road
Edge of Eternity
They Came to Cordura
Gidget
Dogface
Me and the Colonel
Screaming Mimi
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Decision at Sundown
The Brothers Rico
The Strange One
Not One Shall Die
Nightfall
Storm Center
The Harder They Fall
Battle Stations
Three Stripes in the Sun
Count Three and Pray
Tight Spot
The Violent Men
Private Hell 36
Human Desire
The Bamboo Prison
From Here to Eternity
The Last Posse
Assignment: Paris
The Sniper
Scandal Sheet
The Family Secret
Two of a Kind
Sirocco
Emergency Wedding
Convicted
In a Lonely Place
Father Is a Bachelor
The Reckless Moment
And Baby Makes Three
All the King's Men
The Undercover Man
Knock on Any Door
The Gallant Blade
The Sign of the Ram
To the Ends of the Earth
Framed
Johnny O'Clock
So Dark the Night
Gallant Journey
Night Editor
A Bird in the Head
The Notorious Lone Wolf
Meet Me on Broadway
My Name Is Julia Ross
Blonde from Brooklyn
I Love a Mystery
Eadie Was a Lady
Tahiti Nights
Kansas City Kitty
The Soul of a Monster
Sailor's Holiday
You Only Live Once
The Informer
The Conquerors
Love Over Night
The Yankee Clipper
The Iron Horse
The Courtship of Miles Standish