Biography
J. Peverell Marley was an American cinematographer whose career spanned the silent era through the early 1960s. He began working in the industry shortly after high school and served as chief cameraman for several Cecil B. DeMille productions, including the 1923 film The Ten Commandments.
Marley shot The House of Rothschild (1934) and later worked on films such as The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), House of Wax (1953), The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) and The Left Handed Gun (1958). He received Academy Award nominations for Suez (1938) and Life with Father (1947). He is one of only six cinematographers to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He was married to actresses Lina Basquette, Virginia Ruth McAdoo and Linda Darnell.
