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Philip H. Lathrop

Philip H. Lathrop, A.S.C. (October 22, 1912 – April 12, 1995) was an American cinematographer noted for his skills with wide screen technology and detailed approach to lighting and camera placement. He spent most of his life in movie studios. Lathrop was known for such films as Touch of Evil (1958), Lonely Are the Brave (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964), The Cincinnati Kid (1965), Point Blank (1967), Finian's Rainbow (1968), The Traveling Executioner (1970), Portnoy's Complaint (1972), Earthquake (1974), Swashbuckler (1976), The Driver (1978), Moment by Moment (1978), A Change of Seasons (1980), Foolin' Around (1980), Loving Couples (1980), and Deadly Friend (1986).

He was a long-time member of the ASC Board of Directors, as well as co-chairman of the ASC Awards committee. He also participated in the affairs of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Early life
Lathrop was born in Merced, California, on October 22, 1912. As a child, the Universal Studios lot was his playground, where his mother was employed in the film lab. Lathrop became a member there in the camera department at 18-years old. There, he watched Gilbert Warrenton, ASC, photograph the first version of Show Boat in 1928–29. On the 1936 version of the film, Lathrop loaded cameras from John Mescall, ASC.

Personal life
Lathrop had two marriages, to Molly Lathrop and Betty Jo Lathrop, and three sons, Larry, Bill and Clark.

Career
Lathrop began his career as a film loader in Universal’s camera department in 1934 for Russell Metty, ASC, on the Irving Reis film, All My Sons.

In 1938, he became assistant to Universal’s top-ranking cinematographer Joseph A. Valentine, ASC, and worked on the Deanna Durbin pictures, The Wolf Man, and two Alfred Hitchcock classics, Saboteur and Shadow of a Doubt. Later, he once again worked as a camera operator with Russell Metty for nine years where he shot the opening of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil, one of the most renowned boom shots in the history of cinema.

Lathrop becomes director of photography at Universal in 1958. His first feature that year was The Perfect Furlough, which was shot in CinemaScope and Eastman Color, with director Blake Edwards who Lathrop also worked with on Experiment in Terror, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Pink Panther. In 1959, Lathrop and Edwards collaborated on the television series, Peter Gunn and Mr. Lucky.

Using the new Panavision lenses, Lathrop shot the 1962 black and white drama, Lonely Are the Brave, with director David Miller in New Mexico’s Sandia Mountains —this is an early example of the 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Lathrop’s particular visual style seems to epitomize the times, such as in Point Blank, directed by John Boorman in 1967, where a glossy, dense feel was utilized to a tough thriller. In this film, color charts were prepared for each scene—the colors were subdued and desaturated and no scene was ever too bright or showy. After Point Blank, Lathrop worked on Francis Ford Coppola’s Finian’s Rainbow, another unusual color film.

He was inducted into the ASC Hall of Fame in 1974. During the 1980s, Lathrop worked on eight television movies-of-the-week as well as several mini-series, winning him several Emmys.

He died of cancer on April 12, 1995, in Los Angeles, the same year he was honored with the 1992 ASC Lifetime Achievement Award. Services were held at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Hollywood Hills where Stanley Cortez, ASC, delivered the eulogy.

Photography in Earthquake
In the 1974 disaster film Earthquake, Lathrop made director Mark Robson’s vision of the movie come true. Robson wanted a natural look for the film, without its being documentary-like. Instead of shooting in natural locations, Earthquake was filmed almost entirely on the Universal Studios' sound stages and back-lot due to the extraordinary degree of control deemed necessary to execute the required special effects. To bring the earthquake scenes to life, a shaker mount for the camera was created. Lathrop said it “created an amazing illusion. You’d swear that the ground was going up and down and moving sideways, when, of course, it wasn’t moving at all.” Sets were also built on shaker platforms, which is incredibly costly so “in the sets that were not on shaker platforms, [it] was [difficult] to get the actors to move as if they were responding to an earthquake, when there wasn’t one,” he added.

A five-story section of what is supposed to be a 25-story building was made in Stage 12, the highest in the studio, where every floor was used to shoot the action. Lathrop stated that “it was necessary to dig down 20 feet into the floor of the stage in order to accommodate [the building model].” He continued, “[the] photography of this sequence was difficult because of the way [they] had to light the set” to avoid shadows from the hanging lights when the simulated earthquakes took place. So “in order to light it, [Lathrop] went clear up above the grids with four arcs pointed down to simulate the angle of the sun. [He] matched each of the arcs on the way down and didn’t overlap them, nor did [he] use any fill light at all.”

To execute a film like Earthquake, natural sets would have been very limiting. Shooting on set allows for control in the lighting and to “do things with the camera that would have been impossible in a natural set,” said Lathrop. Without a single day off of work after Earthquake, Lathrop immediately began working on Airport 1975, also for Universal Studios.

Academy Award nominations
•	1965 - Best Cinematography, Black-and-White - The Americanization of Emily •	1975 - Best Cinematography - Earthquake

Awards
•	1984 – Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or a Special – Celebrity, nominated •	1985 – Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or a Special – Malice in Wonderland, won •	1986 – Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Miniseries or a Special – Picking Up the Pieces, nominated •	1987 – Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Miniseries or a Special – Christmas Snow, won •	1988 – Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Miniseries or a Special – Little Girl Lost, nominated •	1988 – Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Miniseries or Specials – Christmas Snow, won •	1989 – Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Movies of the Week/Pilots – Little Girl Lost, won •	1992 – Lifetime Achievement Award, won •	1999 – Historical Shot – Touch of Evil, won
 * Primetime Emmy Awards
 * American Society of Cinematographers
 * Society of Camera Operators

Filmography
•	Live Fast, Die Young (1958) •	Girls on the Loose (1958) •	The Saga of Hemp Brown (1958) as Philip Lathrop •	Wild Heritage (1958) as Philip Lathrop •	The Perfect Furlough (1958) as Philip Lathrop •	Money, Women and Guns (1958) as Philip Lathrop •	Rawhide (TV Series: 9 episodes, 1958) as Philip Lathrop •	The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1958) Director of Photography •	Steve Canyon (TV Series: 11 episodes, 1959) •	Cry Tough (1959) •	Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (TV Series: 2 episodes, 1959) as Philip Lathrop •	The Private Lives of Adam and Eve (1960) •	Mr. Lucky (TV Series: 4 episodes, 1960; 21 episodes, 1959–1960) Director of Photography •	Peter Gunn (TV Series: 61 episodes, 1958–1960) as Philip Lathrop •	Hong Kong (TV Series: 24 episodes, 1960–1961) Director of Photography •	Perry Mason (TV Series: 2 episodes, 1961) Director of Photography •	Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) co-cinematographer, uncredited •	Experiment in Terror (1962) Director of Photography •	Lonely Are the Brave (1962) Director of Photography •	Combat! (TV Series: 1 episode, 1962) Director of Photography •	Days of Wine and Roses (1962) Director of Photography •	Dime with a Halo (1963) •	Vacation Playhouse (TV Series: 1 episode, 1963) Director of Photography •	Twilight of Honor (1963) Director of Photography •	Soldier in the Rain (1963) Director of Photography •	The Pink Panther (1963) Director of Photography •	The Americanization of Emily (1964) as Philip Lathrop •	36 Hours (1964) •	Girl Happy (1965) Director of Photography •	The Cincinnati Kid (1965) Director of Photography •	Never Too Late (1965) as Philip Lathrop •	What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966) Director of Photography •	The Happening (1967) Director of Photography •	Don't Make Waves (1967) •	Gunn (1967) Director of Photography •	Point Blank (1967) Director of Photography •	I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968) Director of Photography •	Finian’s Rainbow (1968) Director of Photography •	The Illustrated Man (1969) Director of Photography •	The Gypsy Moths (1969) as Philip Lathrop •	They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) Director of Photography •	The Hawaiians (1970) Director of Photography •	The Traveling Executioner (1970) Director of Photography •	Rabbit, Run (1970) •	Wild Rovers (1971) Director of Photography •	Every Little Crook and Nanny (1972) as Philip Lathrop •	Portnoy’s Complaint (1972) as Philip Lathrop •	Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973) as Philip Lathrop •	The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973) as Philip Lathrop •	The All-American Boy (1973) •	Mame (1974) Director of Photography •	Together Brothers (1974) •	Airport 1975 (1974) Director of Photography •	Earthquake (1974) Director of Photography •	The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) as Philip Lathrop •	Three for the Road (TV Series: 1 episode, 1975) Director of Photography •	Hard Times (1975) Director of Photography •	The Killer Elite (1975) Director of Photography •	The Black Bird (1975) •	What Now, Catherine Curtis? (TV Movie, 1976) as Philip Lathrop •	Swashbuckler (1976) as Philip Lathrop •	Airport '77 (1977) Director of Photography •	The Feather and Father Gang (TV Series: 1 episode, 1977) as Philip Lathrop •	Never Con a Killer (TV Movie, 1977) •	Captain Courageous (TV Movie, 1977) •	A Different Story (1978) •	The Driver (1978) Director of Photography •	Moment by Moment (1978) Director of Photography •	The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) Director of Photography •	Little Miss Marker (1980) •	Loving Couples (1980) •	Foolin' Around (1980) •	A Change of Seasons (1980) Director of Photography •	All Night Long (1981) as Philip Lathrop •	Class Reunion (1982) Director of Photography •	Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982) Director of Photography •	Celebrity (TV Mini-Series: 3 episodes, 1984) as Philip Lathrop •	Malice in Wonderland (TV Movie, 1985) •	Love on the Run (TV Movie, 1985) •	Picking Up the Pieces (TV Movie, 1985) •	Between the Darkness and the Dawn (TV Movie, 1985) •	Mr. and Mrs. Ryan (TV Movie, 1986) as Philip Lathrop •	Deadly Friend (1986) •	Christmas Snow (TV Movie, 1986) •	Six Against the Rock (TV Movie, 1987) as Philip Lathrop •	Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (Short, 1987) •	Little Girl Lost (TV Movie, 1988)

Camera and Electrical Department
•	The Cat Creeps (1946) assistant camera – uncredited •	All My Sons (1948) camera operator – uncredited •	Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948) camera operator – uncredited •	You Gotta Stay Happy (1948) assistant camera – uncredited •	Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) assistant camera – uncredited •	The Lady Gambles (1949) - camera operator – uncredited •	Peggy (1950) - camera operator – as Philip Lathrop •	The Desert Hawk (1950) - camera operator – uncredited •	Wyoming Mail (1950) - camera operator – uncredited •	Little Egypt (1951) - camera operator – uncredited •	The Raging Tide (1951) - camera operator – uncredited •	Flame of Araby (1951) - camera operator – uncredited •	The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952) - camera operator •	Scarlet Angel (1952) - camera operator – uncredited •	Yankee Buccaneer (1952) - camera operator – uncredited •	Against All Flags (1952) - camera operator – uncredited •	Seminole (1953) - camera operator – uncredited •	It Happens Every Thursday (1953) - camera operator •	The Man from the Alamo (1953) - camera operator – uncredited •	The Veils of Bagdad (1953) - camera operator •	All That Heaven Allows (1955) - camera operator – uncredited •	Man Afraid (1957) - camera operator •	Touch of Evil (1958) - camera operator – uncredited •	In Harm's Way (1965) - camera operator: second unit – as Philip Lathrop •	Hammett (1982) – cinematographer: other photography – as Philip Lathrop

Miscellaneous Crew
•	Visions of Light (Documentary, 1992) member: ASC Education Committee – as Philip Lathrop

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 * Keep 1500 Google hits for a new operation isn't bad, and crushes the Google count for yer basic non-notable highschool. Denni ☯ 02:06, 2005 Jun 7 (UTC)
 * Keep it is notable that Esther Dyson is on the board of directors, among other things  Also, note how this company's Wikipedia entry is similar to Technorati, a similar company.   If Technorati can exist in Wikipedia, why not EVDB?
 * Delete. Advertising. The website describes Esther Dyson as an investor, not a director; that's not enough in itself to make the company notable. If Wikipedia contains articles that are also advertising for non-notable websites, they should be nominated for deletion too, but that has no bearing whatsoever on the decision to be made on this particular nomination. Try telling a cop "if that other car can drive over 75 and not get ticketed, why not me?" Dpbsmith (talk) 19:31, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Graham Dilley

Graham Roy Dilley (18 May 1959 – 5 October 2011) was an English international cricketer, whose main role was as a fast bowler. He played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and Worcestershire County Cricket Clubs, and appeared in 41 Test matches and 36 One Day International (ODIs) for the England cricket team.

Dilley is perhaps best remembered for his tail-end batting with Ian Botham in England's second innings against Australia at Headingley in 1981, reaching his highest Test score of 56 in an eighth-wicket partnership of 117 runs.

Early life
Dilley was born and raised in Dartford, Kent and was educated at Dartford High School. He played his early cricket for Dartford Cricket Club at Hesketh Park and trained as a diamond cutter at Hatton Garden before embarking on a cricketing career with Kent County Cricket Club. He first played for the Kent Second XI in 1976, aged 17.

He was married and divorced twice and had four children, including Chris Pennell, who has played rugby union for England and Worcester Warriors, whilst his youngest son, Jonathan, has played cricket for both Gloucestershire and Worcestershire Second XIs. Kent cricketer Graham Johnson was a brother-in-law.

Early cricket career
A fast bowler, Dilley made his first-class cricket debut for Kent at the age of 18 in 1977, against Cambridge University. He failed to take a wicket, and was not selected again until the following season when was again wicketless against the touring Pakistanis. Seven wickets in his third first-class match, against Middlesex, followed, although he took only one wicket in two further matches later in the season. He was, however, selected for England Young Cricketers against their West Indian counterparts.

In 1979, Dilley played 31 senior games for Kent, including taking four wickets for the cost of 41 runs (4/41) in a World Cup warm-up match against the New Zealanders. He finished with 49 first-class wickets at an average of 23.48 runs per wicket.

England selection
The England selectors, looking for a young fast bowler for that winter's tour of Australia, took the bold decision to include the 20-year-old Dilley in the squad. He made his international debut in a One Day International against West Indies on 24 November 1979 at Sydney during the 1979/80 Australian Tri-Series, a triangular tournament that also featured Australia. Dilley opened the bowling and took his first wicket in his third over.

A fortnight later, Dilley appeared in his first Test match, making him the youngest cricketer to play for England in 30 years. England captain Mike Brearley showed confidence in his young bowler and he again opened the bowling. He took two wickets on debut. Australia finished their innings on 244 all out. In England's reply Dilley scored an unbeaten 38 runs, the second-highest score of the innings as England were all out for 228. He batted for 206 minutes, facing 57 balls. The game featured a memorable item on the second-innings scorecard:
 * Lillee c Willey b Dilley 19

Although he also played in the second Test, he was replaced by John Lever for the third and final match of the series. Dilley took only seven wickets on that tour – "£7,000 for seven wickets" as the tour manager Alec Bedser commented.

In 1980, Dilley was not selected until the third Test against West Indies, at Old Trafford. Rain intervened, as it was to do in the fourth and fifth Tests as well, and all were drawn, but Dilley's eleven wickets, in the three innings he was able to bowl in, made sure of his place to face the same opponents in the Caribbean that winter. He took ten wickets on the tour, enough to retain his place for the 1981 Ashes series.

Dilley began the 1981 Ashes series strongly, taking 12 wickets in the first two Tests, and was retained for the third Test at Headingley. This game is best remembered for England's sensational victory after following on, and for the heroics of Ian Botham and Bob Willis, but Dilley played his part as well, albeit as a batsman. Coming to the crease in the second innings with England at 135/7, 92 runs in arrears, Dilley had no orders from his captain, Mike Brearley, when he joined Botham at the crease. Botham said, "Right then, let's have a bit of fun", and the two men put on 117 in just 80 minutes before Dilley (56 runs from 75 balls) was bowled by Terry Alderman. England eventually established a lead of 130, and Dilley then held a boundary catch to dismiss Rod Marsh in Australia's second innings, England going on to dismiss Australia for 111, winning by 18 runs.

Despite his part in the win at Headingley, Dilley did not play in the fourth Test, nor in the two that followed, being replaced variously by John Emburey, Paul Allott and Mike Hendrick. He did get picked for the subsequent 1981/2 India tour, having pulled out of Graham Gooch's rebel tour of South Africa, something he later regretted for financial reasons.

Injury and recovery
Despite being in and out of the side, Dilley's future as an international player seemed reasonably bright by 1983, and he played a full part in England's 1983 Cricket World Cup campaign. Following the tournament, a neck injury forced him out of the game for a year, and although he returned to county cricket in 1985, there was some doubt as to his long-term prospects. A decent performance that winter for Natal in South Africa helped in his rehabilitation and in 1986 Dilley took 63 first-class wickets and earned a recall to the England side.

Between 1986 and 1988, Dilley took 83 Test wickets at an average of 26.43 runs per wicket. Generally regarded as England's foremost strike bowler, he developed significant pace and outswing from a long, wide run up, approaching the wicket at an angle of almost 45 degrees. Perhaps his most significant success came in 1986/87 when he took 5/68 in the first innings of the first Test at Brisbane to help his team to a victory that set them on their way to an Ashes win. Later on that tour, Dilley helped England to further success in winning the Benson & Hedges Challenge and the World Series Cup, taking his best one-day international figures of 4/23 in a match against the West Indies (a performance which won him the man of the match award). He also won the man of the match award for another one-day international performance against the West Indies that winter in which he took 4/46.

In the drawn series against New Zealand the following winter Dilley produced his career-best Test match innings bowling figures, taking 6/38 including the first five wickets to fall at Christchurch. He was fined £250 in the same match for swearing at the umpire, comments which were clearly picked up by the stump microphone. He took a further five-wicket haul at Auckland, and finished the series with 15 wickets at an average of 14.

Later career
For the 1987 season, Dilley moved to Worcestershire. His new county were about to begin the most successful period in their history, winning four trophies in the next three years. Despite further injury problems, he proved a key bowler as Worcestershire won the 1988 and 1989 County Championships; it was during this period that he wrote, with team-mate Graeme Hick, an account of one of the title-winning seasons, entitled Hick'n'Dilley Circus.

Dilley recorded his best match figures in a Test match at Lord's in 1988, match figures of 9/128 (comprising 5/55 and 4/73) against the West Indies, although England lost the match. However, Dilley's international career was beginning to wind down by the end of that season, and his final Test was at Edgbaston in the 1989 Ashes series. He made certain that he would not be picked again by accompanying Mike Gatting on the rebel tour to South Africa that winter. Unusually he finished on the winning side only twice in his 41 Test matches (the Headingley test of 1981 and that at Brisbane in 1986), the 1980s being a lean time for English cricket.

He continued to play for his county and in the 1991 season came sixth in the first-class bowling averages in domestic cricket (among bowlers who had taken a minimum of twenty wickets), taking 37 wickets at 22.24, also helping Worcestershire to win the Benson and Hedges Cup.

However recurring injury problems led to his retirement at the end of the 1992 season.

Post-retirement
Dilley's move to Worcestershire denied him the financial security of a benefit season and he found employment after retirement as a coach, firstly for the England women's cricket team, and then accompanying the men's side on their tour to India in 2001/02. He also worked in a coaching capacity for Zimbabwe and Scotland. His last position was as head coach for Loughborough University Centre of Cricketing Excellence, where he was director of cricket for 11 years. At Loughborough he coached, among others, Monty Panesar, James Anyon, Ruel Brathwaite, James Adams and Rob Taylor.

Death
Dilley died in a hospice at Leicester on 5 October 2011, aged 52, just one week after being diagnosed with oesophageal cancer. A memorial service was held in Worcester Cathedral on 9 November 2011.

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