Joseph Biroc was born in New York City and began working in films at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
18 Facts About Joseph Biroc
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Once in Southern California, Biroc worked at the RKO Pictures movie studio.
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In 1950, Joseph Biroc left RKO Pictures and freelanced on projects at various studios.
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Joseph Francis Biroc was born on February 12,1903, in New York City, New York.
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Joseph Biroc developed a passion about film in his childhood.
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Joseph Biroc saw his "first movie in 1910 on a vacant lot five blocks from his home" and knew from then he wanted to spend the rest of his life making movies.
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At the age of fifteen, with his uncle's help, Joseph Biroc began his career in film as a film lab technician with Paragon Labs in Fort Lee, New Jersey in 1918.
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Joseph Biroc started at RKO by serving as assistant to cinematographers Leo Tover, Robert De Grasse, and Edward Cronjager.
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Joseph Biroc worked on A Woman Rebels, Sylvia Scarlett, and Five Came Back, but received no screen credit as RKO hardly credited camera operators.
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In 1943, Joseph Biroc began his career as a motion picture cameraman in the US Army Signal Corps.
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Joseph Biroc obtained his first credit as cinematographer for It's A Wonderful Life.
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In 1952, Joseph Biroc began his association with producer-director Robert Aldrich, starting with shooting an episode of The Doctor and moving onto films such as Attack, World for Ransom, Hush.
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Hush, Sweet Charlotte for which Joseph Biroc received his first Oscar nomination, The Flight of the Phoenix, and The Longest Yard.
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Joseph Biroc concluded his career in the 1970s and 1980s with work on television movies, specials, and miniseries.
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Joseph Biroc was the cinematographer for the first feature-length 3-D color film in history, Bwana Devil.
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Joseph Biroc goes on to explain how Natural Vision, the corporation he worked with, provided a different experience with 3-D pictures as it induced no eye strain.
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Joseph Biroc wrote an article for American Cinematographer where he explained the process behind filming the series Washington: Behind Closed Doors.
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Joseph Biroc worked with director Wim Wenders and producers Fred Roos, Ronald Colby, and Don Guest to achieve a classic lighting look for Hammett.