Glen MacWilliams

Glen MacWilliams

Director

Saratoga, California, USA
May 21, 1898

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Glen MacWilliams (May 21, 1898 – April 15, 1984), was an American cinematographer. Born in California, MacWilliams started his career in the silent days. He worked in the United Kingdom for much of the 1930s, working on several musicals with Jessie Matthews. He returned to the US in the 1940s where he worked extensively for 20th Century Fox, filming Laurel and Hardy's first two films for the studio and also worked with Alfred Hitchcock on Lifeboat in 1944. He had previously worked with Hitchcock on one occasion in Britain. He later worked in television on such shows as Highway Patrol, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Untouchables and My Living Doll before he retired in the mid-1960s.

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Representative Works

Lifeboat
Lifeboat
7.4
/ English
Headin' South
Headin' South
No Rating Yet
/ English
Great Guns
Great Guns
6.0
/ English
Cavalcade
Cavalcade
5.5
/ English
The Clairvoyant
The Clairvoyant
6.0
/ English
Sob Sister
Sob Sister
7.0
/ English
Pleasure Crazed
Pleasure Crazed
7.0
/ English
Pajamas
Pajamas
10.0
/ English
Wing Toy
Wing Toy
7.0
/ English
The Front Page
The Front Page
6.5
/ English
Wing and a Prayer
Wing and a Prayer
6.7
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Lifeboat
1944Nominee

Best Director

Lifeboat

Headin' South
1918Nominee

Best Director

Headin' South

Great Guns
1941Nominee

Best Director

Great Guns

Career Highlights

Cavalcade
1933Highlight

Career Highlight

Cavalcade

The Clairvoyant
1935Highlight

Best Director

The Clairvoyant