Biography
Lucien Ballard, the cinematographer best known for his collaboration with directors Sam Peckinpah and Josef von Sternberg, was born in Miami, Oklahoma. Ballard became a wanderer after dropping out of the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma, journeying to China in search of opportunity. When he returned to the United States after not finding any, Ballard gained employment in the lumber business, working in a mill sawing trees and surveying land. Lucien Ballard died near his Rancho Mirage, California, home in a car accident on October 1, 1988. He was 80 years old.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Cinematography, Black-and-White · 1964 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
Elvis: That's the Way It Is
The Wild Bunch
The Killing
An Eye for an Eye
True Grit
The Party
The Getaway
The Sons of Katie Elder
Ride the High Country
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Noon Wine
The Parent Trap
Marines, Let's Go
The Westerner
O. Henry's Full House
Murder by Contract
Blonde Venus
Will Penny
Nevada Smith
The Killer Is Loose
Breakheart Pass
Al Capone
Buchanan Rides Alone
Don't Bother to Knock
Fixed Bayonets!
Dangerous Curves
Thomasine & Bushrod
Hour of the Gun
The Proud Ones
The Lodger
One Hour with You
Monte Carlo
A Time for Dying
The Caretakers
The House on Telegraph Hill
Night Song
Morocco
Breakout
Three the Hard Way
Boeing, Boeing
Band of Angels
A Kiss Before Dying
The Desert Rats
The Devil Is a Woman
Anna Lucasta
Berlin Express
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
Prince Valiant
Roustabout
The Magnificent Matador