In fact, Levendosky said her dad specialized in stunt and special effects camerawork, like"hanging off cranes and helicopters, under trains, on the back of speeding cars, in cages with lions, horseback, under buffalo stampedes … these were stories he was telling his great-grandchildren as recently as six weeks ago."
One of the few people in Hollywood at the time with knowledge of the complex Cinerama camera system, he was asked to help director George Stevens onHe also worked alongside such Oscar-winning cinematographers as Robert Surtees, James Wong Howe, Milt Krasner and. His daughter said he turned down offers to become a DP himself"because he wanted to be behind the camera more than the promotion.
One of three kids, Owen T. Marsh was born at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital on May 29, 1930. His family had deep roots in show business. His mother, Elizabeth, was a violinist who played mood music on movie sets during the silent era. One of his aunts, Mae Marsh, worked for D.W. Griffith in New Jersey and came west to star in the director's; another aunt, Margaret Loveridge, acted in many silent movies as well; and a third, Frances Marsh, was a Hollywood film editor who collaborated with her brother Ollie on Ernst Lubitsch'sMeanwhile, his older brother, Warne Marsh, would become a noted tenor jazz saxophonist.
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