Daniel Clark

• Born: Apr 28, 1890 in Urbana, Missouri
• Died: Dec 14, 1961 in San Bernardino Co., California
• Occupation: Cinematographer
• Active: '20s-'30s
• Major Genres: Western, Action
• Career Highlights: Step Lively, Jeeves!, Charlie Chan at the Olympics, Charlie Chan at the Circus
• First Major Screen Credit: Just Tony (1922)

Biography

Tom Mix's favorite cameraman, Daniel Clark spent most of his career with Fox and its successor, 20th Century Fox. In the mid-'30s, he became involved with the purely technical aspects of cinematography, inventing a special blue filter to shield the still-sensitive eyes of the famed Dionne Quintuplets in The Country Doctor (1935). Clark earned a 1943 Scientific and Engineering Academy Award for "the development of a lens calibration system and the application of this system to exposure control in cinematography." ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide