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Lucien Ballard
Lucien Ballard, the cinematographer best known for his collaboration with directors Sam Peckinpah and Josef von Sternberg, was born in Miami, Oklahoma. Ballard became a wanderer after dropping out of the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oklahoma, journeying to China in search of opportunity. When he returned to the United States after not finding any, Ballard gained employment in the lumber business, working in a mill sawing trees and surveying land. Lucien Ballard died near his Rancho Mirage, California, home in a car accident on October 1, 1988. He was 80 years old.
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Filmography (13)
From Noon Till Three
65
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Breakout
61
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Breakheart Pass
67
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The Getaway
73
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True Grit
74
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The Wild Bunch
79
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The Party
74
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Will Penny
70
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Nevada Smith
69
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The Parent Trap
72
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Al Capone
67
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The Killing
79
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Love Me Tonight
75
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