Milton R. Krasner(1904-1988)
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Milton Krasner entered the film industry as an assistant cameraman in
1917, and while working at the Vitagraph and Biograph studios in New
York City was promoted to camera operator. Graduating to lighting
cameraman in 1933, he was assigned mostly second features until the
mid-'40s, when his excellence in black-and-white photography was
finally recognized. Krasner hit his stride in the 1950s at 20th
Century-Fox, where he photographed many of the studio's opulent
Technicolor epics (Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), Désirée (1954), The Rains of Ranchipur (1955), among others). He won an
Academy Award for Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).
1917, and while working at the Vitagraph and Biograph studios in New
York City was promoted to camera operator. Graduating to lighting
cameraman in 1933, he was assigned mostly second features until the
mid-'40s, when his excellence in black-and-white photography was
finally recognized. Krasner hit his stride in the 1950s at 20th
Century-Fox, where he photographed many of the studio's opulent
Technicolor epics (Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), Désirée (1954), The Rains of Ranchipur (1955), among others). He won an
Academy Award for Three Coins in the Fountain (1954).