Born: 22 October 1912, Merced, Calif., USA, as Philip H. Lathrop.

Died: 12 April 1995, Los Angeles, Calif., USA.

Career: Entered industry in 1934 as film loader in the camera department at Universal Studios. In 1938 he became 2nd asst working with doph Joseph Valentine. Became c.op working with doph Russell Metty for 9 years. Became doph in 1957 shooting live-action seq at Walter Lantz' animation studio. Was member of the ASC.

Awards: 'Oscar' AA nom [1964; b&w] for 'The Americanization of Emily'; 'Oscar' AA nom [1974] for 'Earthquake'; 'Emmy' Award nom [1984] for 'Celebrity' [part III]; 'Emmy' Award [1985] for 'Malice in Wonderland'; 'Emmy' Award nom [1986] for 'Picking Up the Pieces'; 'Emmy' Award [1987] & ASC Award [1988] for 'Christmas Snow'; 'Emmy' Award nom [1988] & ASC Award [1989] for 'Little Girl Lost'; ASC Lifetime Achievement Award [1992]; SOC Award [1999; posthumously] for the opening scene of 'Touch of Evil'.

1957        The Monster of Piedras Blancas [Irvin Berwick] b&w

1957        Girls on the Loose [Paul Henreid] b&w

1957        Money, Women and Guns [Richard Bartlett] cs/c

1958        Live Fast, Die Young [Paul Henreid] b&w; spph: Clifford Stine

1958        Wild Heritage/Death Rides His Trail [Charles Haas] cs/c

1958        The Saga of Hemp Brown [Richard Carlson] cs/c

1958        The Perfect Furlough/Strictly for Pleasure [Blake Edwards] cs/c; spph: Clifford Stine

1959        Cry Tough [Paul Stanley] b&w; cph: Irving Glassberg

1959        The Private Lives of Adam and Eve [Albert Zugsmith & Mickey Rooney] b&w-c

1960        Breakfast at Tiffany's [Blake Edwards] c; uncred cph; ph: Franz Planer

1961        Lonely Are the Brave [David Miller] p/b&w

1961        Experiment in Terror/Grip of Fear [Blake Edwards] b&w

1962        Days of Wine and Roses [Blake Edwards] b&w

1962        Dime with a Halo [Boris Sagal] b&w

1963        The Pink Panther [Blake Edwards] tr & 70bu/c

1963        Twilight of Honor/The Charge Is Murder [Boris Sagal] p/b&w

1963        Soldier in the Rain [Ralph Nelson] b&w

1963        The Americanization of Emily/Emily [Arthur Hiller] b&w; addph: Christopher Challis; spec vfx: J. McMillan Johnson

1964        36 Hours [George Seaston] p/b&w

1964        Girl Happy [Boris Sagal] p/c

1964        In Harm's Way [Otto Preminger] p/b&w; 2uc; ph: Loyal Griggs

1964        The Cincinnati Kid [Norman Jewison (replaced Sam Peckinpah)] c

1965        Never Too Late [Bud Yorkin] p/c; 2uc: Ed Horton

1965        What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? [Blake Edwards] p/c; 2uc: Harold Wellman

1966        The Happening [Elliot Silverstein] c; 2uc: Howard Winner

1966        Don't Make Waves [Alexander Mackendrick] p/c; skydiving ph: Bob Buquor

1966        Gunn [Blake Edwards] c

1966        Point Blank [John Boorman] p/c

1967        Finian's Rainbow [Francis Ford Coppola] p70/c

1968        I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!/Kiss My Butterfly [Hy Averback] c

1968        The Illustrated Man [Jack Smight] p/c

1968        The Gypsy Moths [John Frankenheimer] c; aph: Carl Boenisch

1969        They Shoot Horses, Don't They? [Sydney Pollack] p/c

1969        The Hawaiians/Master of the Islands [Tom Gries] p/c; cph: Lucien Ballard (replaced by Lathrop)

1969        The Traveling Executioner [Jack Smight] p/c

1970        Rabbit, Run [Jack Smight] p/c

1970        The All-American Boy [Charles Eastman] p/c

1971        Wild Rovers [Blake Edwards] p/c; 106m & 136m; 2uc: Frank Stanley

1971        Portnoy's Complaint [Ernest Lehman] p/c

1971        Every Little Crook and Nanny [Cy Howard] c

1972        The Thief Who Came to Dinner [Bud Yorkin] c

1972        Lolly-Madonna XXX/The Lolly-Madonna War [Richard Sarafian] p/c

1973        Mame [Gene Saks] p/c; spec pfx: Albert Whitlock

1973        Together Brothers [William A. Graham] c; cph: Charles Rosher Jr.

1973        The Prisoner of Second Avenue [Melvin Frank] p/c

1974        Earthquake [Mark Robson] p/c; miniature ph: Clifford Stine; spec pfx: Albert Whitlock

1974        Airport 1975 [Jack Smight] p/c; 2uc: Rex Metz; Washington ph: Richard Kratina

1974        Hard Times/The Streetfighter [Walter Hill] p/c

1975        The Killer Elite [Sam Peckinpah] p/c; 2uc: Duke Callaghan

1975        The Black Bird [David Giler] c

1976        Swashbuckler/The Scarlet Buccaneer [James Goldstone] p/c; spec pfx: Albert Whitlock

1976        Airport '77 [Jerry Jameson] p/c; 2uc: Rexford Metz

1977        The Driver [Walter Hill] p/c; 91m & 131m

1977        A Different Story [Paul Aaron] c; 2uc: Michael Werk

1978        Moment by Moment [Jane Wagner] p/c

1978        Foolin' Around [Richard T. Heffron] c

1978        The Concorde - Airport '79/Airport '80: The Concorde/S.O.S. Concorde [David Lowell Rich] c; spph: Clifford Stine

1979        Little Miss Marker [Walter Bernstein] c

1979        Loving Couples [Jack Smight] c

1980        A Change of Seasons [Richard Lang & (uncred) Noel Black] c; 2uc: Dick Kratina, Rexford Metz & Joe Jackman; ski ph:

                    Scott Miller

1980        All Night Long [Jean-Claude Tramont] c

1981        Hammett [Wim Wenders (replaced Nicolas Roeg)] c; ph reshoots (1981); ph: Joseph Biroc (1980)

1982        [National Lampoon's] Class Reunion [Michael Miller] c

1982        Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again [Jerry Belson] c

1986        Deadly Friend [Wes Craven] c

1987        Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall [Bryan Gordon] c; short/23m

1957        The Woody Woodpecker Show [various] anim + live-action series; live-action ph

1958        Peter Gunn [ep #1 'The Kill' dir by Blake Edwards & ep #11-13, #15-26 & #29-38 dir by various] 114-part series, 1958-

                    61/b&w; 1st season, 1958-59; other ph: Arthur Arling & Maury Gertsman

1958        Rawhide [ep #1 'Incident of the Tumbleweed Wagon' dir by Richard Whorf (RW), #2 'Incident at Alabaster Plain' dir by

                    RW, #3 'Incident with an Executioner' dir by Charles Marquis Warren (CMW), #4 'Incident of the Widowed Dove' dir by

                    Ted Post (TP), #5 'Incident on the Edge of Madness' dir by Andrew V. McLaglen (AVM), #6 'Incident of the Power and the

                    Plow' dir by AVM, #8 'Incident West of Lano' dir by CMW, #9 'Incident of the Town in Terror' dir by TP & #10 'Incident of

                    the Golden Calf' dir by Jesse Hibbs] 217-part series, 1959-65/b&w; 1st season, 1959; other ph: John M. Nickolaus Jr.

1958        Steve Canyon [11 ep dir by various] 34-part series, 1958-59/b&w; other ph: Paul Ivano (pilot), Arthur Arling (16 ep),

                    Kenneth Peach (3 ep), Maury Gertsman (2 ep) & Russell Metty (1 ep)

1959        Mr. Lucky [all ep dir by Blake Edwards, Jack Arnold, Boris Sagal, a.o.] 34-part series, 1959-60/b&w

1959        [The] Swamp Fox [ep #1 'The Birth of the Swamp Fox' dir by Harry Keller & #2 'Brother Against Brother' dir by HK]

                    8-part 'Walt Disney Presents'-series, 1959-61; other ph: Gordon Avil (2 ep), Floyd Crosby (2 ep) & Lucien Ballard (2 ep)

1959        Peter Gunn [ep #41, #43-50, #52-54 & #56-76 dir by various] 2nd season, 1959-60; see 1958

1960        Hong Kong [15 ep dir by various] 27-part (pilot unaired) series, 1960-61/b&w; other ph: Ted McCord

1960        Perry Mason [various] 271-part series, 1957-66/b&w; other ph: Robert Hager, Frank Redman, John M. Nickolaus Jr., a.o.

1962        Hooray for Love [Jerry Hopper] unsold pilot/b&w; shown on 'Vacation Playhouse' (Sep 1963)

1962        Combat! [ep 'A Day in June' (shot as pilot, but aired as #11) dir by Boris Sagal] 152-part series, 1962-67/b&w-c; 1st

                    season, 1962-63/b&w; other ph: Robert Hauser & Emmett Bergholz

1963        The Greatest Showman [Boris Sagal] special on dir Cecil B. DeMille for NBC-tv

1964        Profiles in Courage [ep dir by various] 26-part series, 1964-65/b&w

1975        What Now, Catherine Curtis? [Charles Walters] special/50m/c (3 seg: 'First Night', 'First Affair' & 'First Love')

1976        Never Con a Killer/The Feather & Father Gang [Buzz Kulik] tvm; cph: David M. Walsh

1977        Captains Courageous [Harvey Hart] tvm

1983        Celebrity [Paul Wendkos] 3-part miniseries

1984        Malice in Wonderland/The Rumor Mill [Gus Trikonis] tvm

1985        Between the Darkness and the Dawn [Peter Levin] tvm

1985        Love on the Run [Gus Trikonis] tvm

1985        Picking Up the Pieces [Paul Wendkos] tvm

1986        Christmas Snow [Gus Trikonis] tvm/60m

1986        The Liberators [Kenneth Johnson] tvm

1987        Six Against the Rock [Paul Wendkos] tvm

1987        Little Girl Lost [Sharron Miller] tvm

1935        East of Java/Java Seas [George Melford] c.asst; ph: Norbert Brodine

1941        Saboteur [Alfred Hitchcock] c.asst; ph: Joseph Valentine

1942        Shadow of a Doubt [Alfred Hitchcock] ph: Joseph Valentine

1946        The Cat Creeps [Erle C. Kenton] c.asst; ph: George Robinson

1947        Letter from an Unknown Woman [Max Ophüls] co-c.asst; ph: Franz Planer

1948        All My Sons [Irving Reis] ph: Russell Metty

1948        Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid [Irving Pichel] co-c.op; ph: Russell Metty

1948        Kiss the Blood Off My Hands/Blood On My Hands [Norman Foster] c.asst; ph: Russell Metty

1948        You Gotta Stay Happy [H.C. Potter] c.asst; ph: Russell Metty

1949        The Lady Gambles [Michael Gordon] co-c.op; ph: Russell Metty

1950        Peggy [Frederick De Cordova] ph: Russell Metty

1950        The Desert Hawk [Frederick De Cordova] ph: Russell Metty

1950        Wyoming Mail [Reginald Le Borg] ph: Russell Metty

1951        Little Egypt/Chicago Masquerade [Frederick De Cordova] ph: Russell Metty

1951        Flame of Araby/Flame of the Desert [Charles Lamont] ph: Russell Metty

1951        The Raging Tide [George Sherman] ph: Russell Metty

1951        The Treasure of Lost Canyon [Ted Tetzlaff] ph: Russell Metty

1952        Bronco Buster [Budd Boetticher] ph: Clifford Stine

1952        Scarlet Angel [Sidney Salkow] ph: Russell Metty

1952        [Willie and Joe] Back at the Front/Willie and Joe in Tokyo [George Sherman] ph: Clifford Stine

1952        Yankee Buccaneer [Frederick De Cordova] ph: Russell Metty

1952        Against All Flags [George Sherman] ph: Russell Metty

1953        Seminole [Budd Boetticher] ph: Russell Metty

1953        It Happens Every Thursday [Joseph Pevney] ph: Russell Metty

1953        The Man from the Alamo [Budd Boetticher] ph: Russell Metty

1953        The Veils of Bagdad [George Sherman] ph: Russell Metty

1955        All That Heaven Allows [Douglas Sirk] ph: Russell Metty

1957        Man Afraid [Harry Keller] ph: Russell Metty

1957        Touch of Evil [Orson Welles] co-c.op; ph: Russell Metty