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Conrad L. Hall More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

21 June 1926, Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia

Date of Death

4 January 2003, Santa Monica, California, USA (complications from bladder cancer)

Birth Name

Conrad Lafcadio Hall

Nickname

Connie

Mini Biography

Born in Tahiti, the son of writer James Norman Hall, author of "Mutiny on the Bounty," Conrad Hall studied filmmaking at USC. He and two classmates formed a production company and sold a project to a local television station. Hall's company branched out into making industrial films and TV commercials. They were hired to shoot location footage for several feature films, including's Disney's The Living Desert (1953). In the early 1960s, Hall was hired as a camera assistant on several features and worked his way up to camera operator. He received his first cinematographer credit in 1965. Hall won acclaim for his rich and complex compositions, especially for In Cold Blood (1967) and won an Academy Award for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He won two more Oscars, for American Beauty (1999), in 2000, and Road to Perdition (2002).

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Spouse

Susan Kowarsh	(? - 4 January 2003) (his death)
Virginia Schwartz	(? - ?) (divorced) 3 children

Trivia

Father of Conrad W. Hall.

Son of James Norman Hall.

Cousin of actor Jon Hall and Ben Chapman.

Died 11 weeks before he won the Oscar for Best Cinematography for Road to Perdition (2002). His son, Conrad W. Hall accepted the Oscar on his behalf.

He is one of only six cinematographers to have a star on Hollywood Boulevard's "Walk of Fame," the other five being Hal Mohr, J. Peverell Marley, Leon Shamroy, Haskell Wexler, and Ray Rennahan.

The film Road to Perdition (2002) is dedicated to him.

Member of American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).

Named after Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn.

Was at one time engaged to Katharine Ross.

Personal Quotes

[on Claudia Cardinale] A cameraman's dream -- a perfect piece of nature -- there is not much you can do wrong in photographing her.

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