Biography
Russell Metty (also credited as Russell L. Metty) was an American cinematographer. He began his career in the mid-1920s as a laboratory assistant and later worked as a camera operator at Paramount and RKO before becoming a director of photography. His early credits include Bringing Up Baby (1938).
Metty shot more than 170 films and television productions between the 1930s and 1970s. He is noted for his work with Orson Welles on The Stranger (1946) and Touch of Evil (1958), and for a long collaboration with Douglas Sirk that encompassed eleven films, among them All That Heaven Allows (1955), Written on the Wind (1956) and Imitation of Life (1959). He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Colour, for Spartacus (1960) and received a further nomination for Flower Drum Song (1961). Other notable credits include The Misfits (1961), That Touch of Mink (1962) and The Omega Man (1971).
