Conrad L. Hall

Conrad L. Hall

Conrad Lafcadio Hall, ASC (June 21, 1926 – January 4, 2003) was a French Polynesian-born American cinematographer. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he became widely prominent as a cinematographer earning numerous accolades including three Academy Awards (with ten nominations), three BAFTA Awards and five American Society of Cinematographers Awards. Hall won three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for his work on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), American Beauty (1999), and Road to Perdition (2002). He was also Oscar-nominated for Morituri (1965), The Professionals (1966), In Cold Blood (1967), The Day of the Locust (1975), Tequila Sunrise (1988), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), and A Civil Action (1998). He is also known for Cool Hand Luke (1967), Fat City (1972), and Marathon Man (1976). In 2003, Hall was judged to be one of history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild. He has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. From Wikipedia article 'Conrad Hall'

  • Title: Conrad L. Hall
  • Popularity: 1.265
  • Known For: Camera
  • Birthday: 1926-06-21
  • Place of Birth: Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia
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  • Also Known As: Conrad Hall, Conrad Lafcadio Hall
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Conrad L. Hall Movies

  • 1992
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    Visions of Light

    Visions of Light

    7 1992 HD

    Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...

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  • 2006
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    Who Needs Sleep?

    Who Needs Sleep?

    7 2006 HD

    A documentary that highlights the deadly combination of sleep deprivation and long days of work, focusing on the American film industry.

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  • 2010
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    Something's Gonna Live

    Something's Gonna Live

    8.5 2010 HD

    The Los Angeles Times Critics' Pick Something’s Gonna Live is an intimate portrait of life, death, friendship and the movies, as recalled by...

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  • 2000
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    American Beauty: Look Closer...

    American Beauty: Look Closer...

    7.3 2000 HD

    A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.

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  • 1954
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    The Disneyland Story

    The Disneyland Story

    7.5 1954 HD

    Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of the show to come. Then the show focuses primarily...

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  • 1970
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    The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'

    The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'

    4 1970 HD

    A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the classic western about the lives of two of America's most famous outlaws. Director George Roy Hill...

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  • 2010
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    A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall

    A Cinematic Life: The Art and Influence of Conrad Hall

    5.5 2010 HD

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  • 1999
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    American Beauty

    American Beauty

    8.018 1999 HD

    Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his...

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  • 1969
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    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    7.6 1969 HD

    In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the...

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  • 1988
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    Tequila Sunrise

    Tequila Sunrise

    6.05 1988 HD

    In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act,...

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  • 2002
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    Road to Perdition

    Road to Perdition

    7.355 2002 HD

    Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing,...

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  • 1967
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    Cool Hand Luke

    Cool Hand Luke

    7.731 1967 HD

    When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or...

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  • 1992
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    Jennifer Eight

    Jennifer Eight

    6 1992 HD

    John Berlin, a big-city cop from LA moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected...

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  • 1976
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    Marathon Man

    Marathon Man

    7.203 1976 HD

    A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

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  • 1975
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    The Day of the Locust

    The Day of the Locust

    6.3 1975 HD

    Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with...

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  • 1968
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    Hell in the Pacific

    Hell in the Pacific

    6.9 1968 HD

    During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in...

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  • 1998
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    A Civil Action

    A Civil Action

    6.5 1998 HD

    Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his...

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  • 1993
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    Searching for Bobby Fischer

    Searching for Bobby Fischer

    7.1 1993 HD

    A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

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  • 1969
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    Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

    Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

    5.8 1969 HD

    While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive...

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  • 1960
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    Islands of the Sea

    Islands of the Sea

    7 1960 HD

    This short covers some of the wildlife (predominently birds) on four islands-the Galapagos, Guadelupe, Falklands and an island in the Midway chain....

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  • 1956
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    Running Target

    Running Target

    5.5 1956 HD

    In the Colorado Rockies, Sheriff Scott, heads a posse that is after four escaped convicts, and thought it is his sworn duty to return the men dead or...

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  • 1974
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    Catch My Soul

    Catch My Soul

    5.4 1974 HD

    Screenwriter John Good's rock & roll adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello who is a wandering evangelist who happens onto Iago's remote commune. There...

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  • 1969
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    Trilogy

    Trilogy

    6 1969 HD

    Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was...

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  • 1966
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.085 1966 HD

    An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

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  • 1972
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    Fat City

    Fat City

    7.056 1972 HD

    Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.

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  • 1987
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    Black Widow

    Black Widow

    6.162 1987 HD

    Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But...

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  • 1965
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    Wild Seed

    Wild Seed

    5.5 1965 HD

    A 17-year-old girl runs away from her east coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her...

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  • 1964
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    The Unknown

    The Unknown

    6 1964 HD

    After two women poison to death the blackmailer who has been tormenting them, they wind up at the house of a blind man whose eccentric guest believes...

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  • 1966
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    Incubus

    Incubus

    5.886 1966 HD

    On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.

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  • 1966
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    A Christmas Memory

    A Christmas Memory

    6 1966 HD

    Narrated by Truman Capote. Emmy Award winning adaptation of Capote's recollection of his youth in the rural South during the Depression. Later...

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  • 1967
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    In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood

    7.456 1967 HD

    After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own...

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  • 1966
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    Harper

    Harper

    6.6 1966 HD

    Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved...

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  • 1996
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    Faithful

    Faithful

    5.3 1996 HD

    A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her...

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  • 1975
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    Smile

    Smile

    5.959 1975 HD

    It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who...

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  • 1969
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    The Happy Ending

    The Happy Ending

    6 1969 HD

    The triumphs and failures of middle age as seen through the eyes of runaway American housewife Mary Wilson, a woman who believes that ultimate...

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  • 1958
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    Edge of Fury

    Edge of Fury

    5.6 1958 HD

    A psychopathic young beachcomber pretends to befriend a mother and two daughters living at their summer home.

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  • 1967
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    Divorce American Style

    Divorce American Style

    5.795 1967 HD

    After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.

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  • 1973
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    Electra Glide in Blue

    Electra Glide in Blue

    6.9 1973 HD

    A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his...

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  • 1964
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    The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre

    The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre

    5.778 1964 HD

    Terrified of being buried alive, a woman installs a phone in her crypt. A few days after her death, the phone suddenly rings and paranormal...

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  • 1964
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    Fanfare for a Death Scene

    Fanfare for a Death Scene

    6 1964 HD

    An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up...

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  • 1994
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    Love Affair

    Love Affair

    5.381 1994 HD

    Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship...

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  • 1960
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    Private Property

    Private Property

    6.1 1960 HD

    A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend.

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  • 1977
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    It Happened One Christmas

    It Happened One Christmas

    3.2 1977 HD

    It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary Bailey Hatch is praying for guidance on what to...

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  • 1955
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    East of Eden

    East of Eden

    7.555 1955 HD

    In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their...

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  • 1965
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    Morituri

    Morituri

    6.75 1965 HD

    A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for...

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  • 1991
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    Class Action

    Class Action

    6.3 1991 HD

    A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie...

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  • 2002
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    Road to Perdition

    Road to Perdition

    7.355 2002 HD

    Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing,...

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  • 1962
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    Pressure Point

    Pressure Point

    6.6 1962 HD

    An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with...

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  • 1969
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    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    7.6 1969 HD

    In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the...

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  • 1998
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    Without Limits

    Without Limits

    6.459 1998 HD

    The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the...

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  • 1970
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    7.759 1970 HD

    The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

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