John Alton
- Дата рождения
- 5 октября 1901 г.
- Дата смерти
- 2 июня 1996 г. (в возрасте 94 года)
- Место рождения
- Sopron, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
- Имя при рождении
- Johann Altmann
- Известен как
- Оператор
Starting out in 1924 as a lab technician at MGM, John Alton left there for Paramount to become a cameraman. He traveled to France and then to South America, where he wrote, photographed and directed several Spanish-language films. Returning to Hollywood in 1937, he soon achieved a reputation as one of the industry's most accomplished cinematographers. In 1951, he and Alfred Gilks won an Academy Award for color photography for An American in Paris (1951).
