1. Archie Stout enjoyed a long and fruitful association with John Ford, working as the principal cinematographer on Fort Apache and second unit cinematographer on She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and The Quiet Man, becoming the only 2nd unit cinematographer to receive an Oscar.
Archibald "Archie" Job Stout was born in Renwick, Iowa, to Frank and Mary Stout on March 30,1886.
Archie Stout had one younger sister, Bessie A Stout, who was born in 1887.
Stout and Fuller divorced, and Archie would go on to marry Evelyn M Stout during much of the 1920s.
Archie Stout was fourteen years younger than Stout, but the two remained married until Archie's death in 1973.
From an early age, Archie Stout knew he wanted to travel, and so he sought work that catered to this desires.
Archie Stout worked in hotel management in Japan and Honolulu, and in 1909, he was chosen to be "secretary to the commission in charge of the Hawaiian exhibit at the American Yukon Expedition".
Archie Stout then moved on to Los Angeles to try his hand at working in real estate, but this venture did not last long, and instead he began to work as a forest ranger.
Archie Stout was game warden of the fish and game commission of California at the time, and was assigned to oversee the handling of a pelican.
However, several days after the scene with the pelican, Archie Stout continued to observe and speak to Mack Sennett and his lead cameraman, Fred Jackman, throughout the rest of the shoot.
Archie Stout eagerly agreed, and after a brief lesson on how the camera worked, went up into the High Sierras to get the shots.
Bert Glennon, Cecil B DeMille's cameraman, allowed Archie to do experimental shots with his Akeley camera with a 17-inch telephoto lens.
DeMille hired Archie Stout to be a "free agent" on his next film, The Ten Commandments.
Archie Stout would go on to develop a strong professional relationship with actor John Wayne, shooting at least 25 of his films, most of which were Westerns.
Archie Stout eventually became a part of director John Ford's camera crew, working on Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Rio Grande, Wagon Master and The Quiet Man.
Between his background with nature and his eye for exterior shots, Archie Stout would go on to be "among the top dozen cinematographers associated with Westerns".
Archie Stout was nominated and won his only Academy Award in 1952, for Best Color Cinematography, with Winton C Hoch for their work on John Ford's The Quiet Man.
Archie Stout would be one of John Ford's lead cameramen at the Normandy landings.