Burnett Guffey(1905-1983)

Entering films in 1923 as an assistant cameraman, Burnett Guffey was picked by John Ford to handle second-unit photography on Le Cheval de fer (1924). After that film, however, Guffey returned to his assistant cameraman position, a job he held until 1928, when he became a camera operator. In that capacity he photographed such major productions as Ford's Le mouchard (1935), Alfred Hitchcock's Correspondant 17 (1940) and Charles Vidor's La reine de Broadway (1944), among others. Guffey was finally hired as a director of photography by Columbia. Highly regarded by his colleagues for his crisp imaging and superb compositions, Guffey won two Academy Awards, for Tant qu'il y aura des hommes (1953) and Bonnie et Clyde (1967).