Burnett Guffey
Camera
1905-05-26 · 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. According to film critic Spencer Selby, Guffey was a prolific film noir cinematographer, shooting 20 of them, including In a Lonely Place (1950).
Filmography
The Steagle
1971 · Movie
The Great White Hope
1970 · Movie
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?
1970 · Movie
Halls of Anger
1970 · Movie
My Father: Gordon Parks
1969 · Movie
The Madwoman of Chaillot
1969 · Movie
Some Kind of a Nut
1969 · Movie
The Learning Tree
1969 · Movie
Where It's At
1969 · Movie
The Moviemakers
1969 · Movie
The Split
1968 · Movie
The Ambushers
1967 · Movie
Bonnie and Clyde
1967 · Movie
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
1967 · Movie
The Silencers
1966 · Movie
King Rat
1965 · Movie
Good Neighbor Sam
1964 · Movie
Flight from Ashiya
1964 · Movie
Kid Galahad
1962 · Movie
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962 · Movie
Mr. Sardonicus
1961 · Movie
Homicidal
1961 · Movie
Cry for Happy
1961 · Movie
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
1960 · Movie
Hell to Eternity
1960 · Movie
The Mountain Road
1960 · Movie
Edge of Eternity
1959 · Movie
They Came to Cordura
1959 · Movie
Gidget
1959 · Movie
Dogface
1959 · Movie
Me and the Colonel
1958 · Movie
Screaming Mimi
1958 · Movie
The True Story of Lynn Stuart
1958 · Movie
Decision at Sundown
1957 · Movie
The Brothers Rico
1957 · Movie
The Strange One
1957 · Movie
Not One Shall Die
1957 · Movie
Nightfall
1956 · Movie
Storm Center
1956 · Movie
The Harder They Fall
1956 · Movie
Battle Stations
1956 · Movie
Three Stripes in the Sun
1955 · Movie
Count Three and Pray
1955 · Movie
Tight Spot
1955 · Movie
The Violent Men
1955 · Movie
Private Hell 36
1954 · Movie
Human Desire
1954 · Movie
The Bamboo Prison
1954 · Movie
From Here to Eternity
1953 · Movie
The Last Posse
1953 · Movie
Assignment: Paris
1952 · Movie
The Sniper
1952 · Movie
Scandal Sheet
1952 · Movie
The Family Secret
1951 · Movie
Two of a Kind
1951 · Movie
Sirocco
1951 · Movie
Emergency Wedding
1950 · Movie
Convicted
1950 · Movie
In a Lonely Place
1950 · Movie
Father Is a Bachelor
1950 · Movie
The Reckless Moment
1949 · Movie
And Baby Makes Three
1949 · Movie
All the King's Men
1949 · Movie
The Undercover Man
1949 · Movie
Knock on Any Door
1949 · Movie
The Gallant Blade
1948 · Movie
The Sign of the Ram
1948 · Movie
To the Ends of the Earth
1948 · Movie
Framed
1947 · Movie
Johnny O'Clock
1947 · Movie
So Dark the Night
1946 · Movie
Gallant Journey
1946 · Movie
Night Editor
1946 · Movie
A Bird in the Head
1946 · Movie
The Notorious Lone Wolf
1946 · Movie
Meet Me on Broadway
1946 · Movie
My Name Is Julia Ross
1945 · Movie
Blonde from Brooklyn
1945 · Movie
Eve Knew Her Apples
1945 · Movie
I Love a Mystery
1945 · Movie
Eadie Was a Lady
1945 · Movie
Tahiti Nights
1944 · Movie
Kansas City Kitty
1944 · Movie
The Soul of a Monster
1944 · Movie
Sailor's Holiday
1944 · Movie
You Only Live Once
1937 · Movie
The Informer
1935 · Movie
The Conquerors
1932 · Movie
Love Over Night
1928 · Movie
The Yankee Clipper
1927 · Movie
The Iron Horse
1925 · Movie
The Courtship of Miles Standish
1923 · Movie