Joseph MacDonald

Joseph Patrick MacDonald, A.S.C. (December 15, 1906 - May 26, 1968) was a Mexico-born American cinematographer. An assistant cameraman from the early 1920s, he became a cinematographer in the 1940s and soon was working on Hollywood productions, mostly at 20th Century Fox. He was usually billed as Joe MacDonald. He was the first Mexico-born cinematographer, and only the second overall, after Leon Shamroy, to film a movie in CinemaScope (How to Marry a Millionaire), as well as the first Mexico-born cinematographer to film a movie in Deluxe Color.

Select filmography

 * Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)
 * Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942)
 * Wintertime (1943)
 * Quiet Please, Murder (1943)
 * Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944)
 * In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
 * The Big Noise (1944)
 * Captain Eddie (1945)
 * My Darling Clementine (1946)
 * Shock (1946)
 * The Dark Corner (1946)
 * Wake Up and Dream (1946)
 * Behind Green Lights (1946)
 * Moss Rose (1947)
 * Call Northside 777 (1948)
 * The Street with No Name (1948)
 * Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
 * Yellow Sky (1949)
 * It Happens Every Spring (1949)
 * Pinky (1949)
 * Stella (1950)
 * Panic in the Streets (1950)
 * As Young as You Feel (1951)
 * You're in the Navy Now (1951)
 * Fourteen Hours (1951)
 * Viva Zapata! (1952)
 * What Price Glory (1952)
 * O. Henry's Full House (1952)
 * Niagara (1953)
 * Pickup on South Street (1953)
 * How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
 * Titanic (1953)
 * Broken Lance (1954)
 * Woman's World (1954)
 * Hell and High Water (1954)
 * The Racers (1955)
 * House of Bamboo (1955)
 * Hilda Crane (1956)
 * On the Threshold of Space (1956)
 * Teenage Rebel (1956)
 * The True Story of Jesse James (1956)
 * Bigger Than Life (1956)
 * Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
 * A Hatful of Rain (1957)
 * The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958)
 * Ten North Frederick (1958)
 * The Young Lions (1958)
 * Warlock (1959)
 * Pepe (1960)
 * The Gallant Hours (1960)
 * The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
 * 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962)
 * Taras Bulba (1962)
 * Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
 * Kings of the Sun (1963)
 * The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
 * Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)
 * The Carpetbaggers (1964)
 * Rio Conchos (1964)
 * Flight from Ashiya (1964)
 * Where Love Has Gone (1964)
 * The Reward (1965)
 * Mirage (1965)
 * Alvarez Kelly (1966)
 * The Sand Pebbles (1966)
 * Blindfold (1966)
 * A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
 * Mackenna's Gold (1969; released posthumously)

Accolades
Nominations
 * Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, for The Young Lions; 1959.
 * Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, for Pepe; 1961.
 * Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, for The Sand Pebbles; 1967.