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Winton C. Hoch
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Born
July 31
,
1905
·
Storm Lake, Iowa, USA
Died
March 20
,
1979
·
Santa Monica, California, USA
(undisclosed)
Nickname
Winnie
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Winton C. Hoch was born on July 31, 1905 in Storm Lake, Iowa, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for
The Quiet Man (1952)
,
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
and
The Searchers (1956)
. He died on March 20, 1979 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Trivia
Never made a black-and-white feature film despite having started shooting features in 1941.
Was the second of only three cinematographers--the first being
Leon Shamroy
and the most recent being
John Toll
--to win back-to-back Oscars. His were for
Victor Fleming
's
Joan of Arc (1948)
and
John Ford
's
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
.
Is also the only cinematographer to share an Oscar with a credited second unit cinematographer,
Archie Stout
, for
John Ford
's
The Quiet Man (1952)
.
Educated at the California Institute of Technology. He became a color specialist for the Technicolor Corp., working to develop its three-color system.
Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
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