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Joseph MacDonald
American cinematographer (1906-1968) · United States · On the map · Artists · Died at 61
Joseph Patrick MacDonald, A.S.C. 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.
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He was the first Mexico-born cinematographer, and only the second overall, after Leon Shamroy, to film a movie in CinemaScope, as well as the first Mexico-born cinematographer to film a movie in Deluxe Color.
