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Joseph Francis Biroc, ASC (February 12, 1903 – September 7, 1996) was an American cinematographer. He was born in New York City and began working in films at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. … more
Sep 17, 1996 · Joseph Biroc, 93, who shared an Academy Award for cinematography on the prototype disaster film "The Towering Inferno."
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Full name Joseph F. Biroc; born February 12, 1903 (some sources say 1900), inNew York, NY (some sources say Union City, NJ); died September 7, 1996, in Woodland Hills, CA.
Sep 7, 1996 · Joseph F. Biroc, ASC was an American cinematographer best known for his work on "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946), "The Flight of the Phoenix" (1965) and "The Towering Inferno" (1974), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Biroc also served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, where he filmed the Liberation of ...
Biroc learned the ropes as a cinematographer in the Army Signal Corps during World War II and did not begin working in Hollywood until his mid-forties. He received his first screen credit as co-photographer with Joseph Walker on Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life , and he applied Walker's teachings to the Capra-esque (though directed by ...
Joseph Francis Biroc, ASC (February 12, 1903 – September 7, 1996) was an American cinematographer. He was born in New York City and began working in films at the Paragon Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
