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Joseph Walker (Joseph Bailey Walker) was born on 22 August, 1892 in Denver, Colorado, USA, is a cinematographer,actor,camera_department. Discover Joseph Walker's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 93 years old?

Popular As Joseph Bailey Walker
Occupation cinematographer,actor,camera_department
Age 93 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 22 August, 1892
Birthday 22 August
Birthplace Denver, Colorado, USA
Date of death 1 August, 1985
Died Place Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Nationality United States

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Who Is Joseph Walker's Wife?

His wife is Marjorie Warfield (c. 1923 - 1935) ( divorced), Juanita Walker (? - ?)

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Wife Marjorie Warfield (c. 1923 - 1935) ( divorced), Juanita Walker (? - ?)
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Joseph Walker Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Joseph Walker worth at the age of 93 years old? Joseph Walker’s income source is mostly from being a successful Cinematographer. He is from United States. We have estimated Joseph Walker's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income Cinematographer

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1910

His family moved to Venice, California in 1910. He became an assistant to Dr. Lee De Forest.

1911

In 1911 he made the first wireless news report using equipment he designed.

1912

In 1912 he built the first wireless transmitters for airplanes and automobiles.

1913

In 1913 he made wireless news reports to The Los Angeles Times on the Mexican revolution.

1914

In 1914 he began his film career with a days work on a picture. This led to shooting newsreels for Gaumont News, Kinograms and Hearst-Selig News.

1919

Frank Capra's favourite cinematographer began his working life as an electrical engineer who collaborated with Lee De Forest on building the first wireless transmitter. However, it was his interest in moving picture photography which led him to work in film laboratories where his numerous pioneering inventions included the first lens adjustment mechanisms (zoom lenses), a camera and flash lamp synchronizing device, oblique image superimposition projection devices and a panoramic television camera. During World War I, Walker gained valuable hands-on experience filming aerial scenes, newsreels and other documentary footage, often for the Red Cross or Gaumont News. All the while, he continued to accumulate patents, such as the Double Exposure System and the Facial Make-Up Meter. Once qualified as a lighting cameraman, Walker started to work in Hollywood. His first film, Back to God's Country (1919), was shot under difficult conditions near the Arctic Circle.

1927

After involvement in several low budget affairs as a free-lance cinematographer, he joined Columbia in 1927.

1928

His first assignment, however, was a rather low key affair: the early sound film Submarine (1928), produced at a relatively modest budget of $150,000. Walker and director Capra worked out a way to use miniature toys and a discarded aquarium found in the props department to conjure up 'special effects'.

1929

An artistic understanding developed between the two men, and, from Capra's picture Flight (1929), Walker worked on each of the director's films for the next decade, winning an Academy Award nomination for You Can't Take It with You (1938). Not only an expert craftsman in composition, camera movement and perspective, as well as consummately skilled in the use of wide-angle and zoom lenses (of which he had a vast personal collection), Walker also excelled at lighting his sets.

1932

After his retirement, Walker's ever-active mind developed and manufactured the Electro-Zoom Lens for RCA (expanding on his earlier, basic design of 1932), later used as standard equipment by TV cameramen in the 1960s.

1934

His most memorable scenes include the moonlit hay field of It Happened One Night (1934), the torchlit funeral procession of Lost Horizon (1937), and, of course, who could forget George Bailey running along the snow-covered main street of Bedford Falls in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) ? Known in the industry as a 'woman's photographer', Walker consistently captured the best attributes of his leading ladies through his close-ups, shot with his own patented 4-inch lenses.

1946

Though he worked primarily on black-and-white features, Joe Walker was equally adept at the medium of colour and won his third of four Oscar nominations for Columbia's A-grade biopic, The Jolson Story (1946).

1952

Walker was to have a profound impact in elevating the status of this studio during the next two decades, inextricably linked with Columbia's best and commercially most successful films, until his retirement in 1952.

1984

On his 84th birthday, he was inducted into the Motion Picture Hall of Fame for "outstanding contributions in the art of making motion pictures."