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ABOUT
Innovative cinematographer who created the lighting and techniques that gave Orson Welles' Citizen Kane its trademark haunting look.His technique of deep focus, showing background objects as clearly as foreground ones, became a signature look for Citizen Kane and a standard technique in films coming after it.The comedian Red Skelton was his son in law.
BEFORE FAMEHe entered Hollywood at the age of 15 as an office boy with Fox Films and by his mid-20s went behind the camera for several Arthur Edeson films.
PERSONAL LIFEHe was born in Charleston, Illinois as the only child of Jennie and Frank Toland, who divorced in 1910.
FUN FACTSCinematographer Gregg Toland were born on Sunday, in a leap year, birthstone is Emerald, the seaon was Spring in the Chinese year of Dragon, it is 146 days until Gregg Toland next birthday.
