Biography
W. Howard Greene (1895–1956) was an American cinematographer known for his work in early colour processes, particularly Technicolor. He began specialising in colour photography in the 1920s, shooting colour sequences for films such as Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) using the two-colour subtractive process.
Greene photographed many landmark Technicolor features in the 1930s and 1940s, including Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935), The Garden of Allah (1936), A Star Is Born (1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Phantom of the Opera (1943) and When Worlds Collide (1951). He received two honorary Academy Awards for colour cinematography, one shared for The Garden of Allah and one for A Star Is Born, and won a competitive Oscar for Phantom of the Opera (shared with Hal Mohr).
