Tony Gaudio

Tony Gaudio
Tony Gaudio, ASC
Born	Gaetano Antonio Gaudio November 20, 1883 Cosenza, Italy
Died	August 10, 1951 (aged 67) Burlingame, California
Nationality	Italian
Title	A.S.C. President (1924–1925)
Board member of	ASC
Religion	Catholic
Spouse(s)	Rosina Gaudio
Children	son, Francesco "Frank" Gaudio, also a cinematographer, son, Tony Gaudio, attorney, daughter, Elena Gaudio Hipple, daughter, Vera Gaudio Woods,
Relatives	Eugene Gaudio (brother)
Awards	1936 Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Tony Gaudio, A.S.C. (20 November 1883 – 10 August 1951) was an Italian American cinematographer and the first to create a montage sequence for a film.

Born Gaetano Antonio Gaudio in Cosenza, Italy, he began his career shooting short subjects for Italian film companies. He moved to New York City in 1906 and worked in Vitagraph's film laboratory until 1909, when he began shooting shorts for the company. His credits include Hell's Angels (1930), Little Caesar (1931), The Lady Who Dared (1931), Tiger Shark (1932), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), God's Country and the Woman (Warner Bros.' first Three-strip Technicolor film, 1937), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), High Sierra (1941), Days of Glory (1944), and The Red Pony (1949).

Gaudio was a favorite of Bette Davis and worked on eleven of her films, including Ex-Lady, Fog Over Frisco, Front Page Woman, Bordertown, The Sisters, Juarez, The Letter, and The Great Lie.

Gaudio won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Anthony Adverse and was nominated five additional times, for Hell's Angels, Juarez, The Letter, Corvette K-225, and A Song to Remember. He was among the founders of the American Society of Cinematographers. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA. His brother Eugene Gaudio, also a cinematographer, died in 1920 at the age of 34.

Selected filmography

• The Unpardonable Sin (1919)
• The Red Lantern (1919)
• An Adventuress (1920)
• Kismet (1920)
• East Is West (1922)
• Ashes of Vengeance (1923)
• Secrets (1924)
• The Lady (1925)
• Déclassée (1925)
• The Temptress (1926)
• The Blonde Saint (1926)
• An Affair of the Follies (1927)
• The Notorious Lady (1927)
• Two Arabian Knights (1927)
• The Gaucho (1927)
• General Crack (1930)
• Tiger Shark (1932)
• Upper World (1934)
• The Man with Two Faces (1934)
• The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
• The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
• Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
• The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
• Garden of the Moon (1938)

External links

• Tony Gaudio at the Internet Movie Database

Tony Gaudio at Find a Grave