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Lucien Ballard

Camera · Died aged 80

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TMDB ID
3351 ↗
Born
1908-05-06
Died
1988-10-01
Age at death
80
Place of birth
Miami, Oklahoma, USA
Known for
Camera

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.

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Filmography

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