Biography
Charles Bryant Lang Jr. was an American cinematographer. Born on 27 March 1902 in Bluff, Utah, he began his career in the silent era and worked with the Akeley camera for outdoor action shots. His first credits were as co-cinematographer on the silent films The Night Patrol (1926) and The Loves of Ricardo (1927).
After joining Paramount Pictures in the late 1920s, Lang remained there for more than twenty years. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for A Farewell to Arms (1932) and received numerous further nominations. His Paramount work included films such as Sabrina (1954) and The Big Heat (1953).
From 1951 he worked as a freelance cinematographer. His credits from this period include Some Like It Hot (1959), The Magnificent Seven (1960), Charade (1963), How the West Was Won (1962) and Wait Until Dark (1967). Lang received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1991. He died on 3 April 1998 in Santa Monica, California.
