Lester Lang
{{short description|American cinematographer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Lester Lang
| birth_name = Lester Stephen Lang
| birth_date = August 15, 1896
| birth_place = Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA
| death_date = August 1969 (aged 73)
| death_place = Bergenfield, New Jersey, USA
| death_cause =
| years_active = 1922–1948
| spouse =
}}
Lester Lang was an American cinematographer known for lensing several of Oscar Micheaux's films in the 1930s.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/atozofafricaname0000berr|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/atozofafricaname0000berr/page/214 214]|quote=lester lang cinematographer.|title=The A to Z of African American Cinema|last1=Berry|first1=S. Torriano|last2=Berry|first2=Venise T.|date=2009-09-02|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810870345|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/492195028/?terms=%22lester+lang%22|title=Lester Lang, Film Pioneer|last=|first=|date=25 Aug 1969|website=The Hackensack Record|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-19}}
Biography
Lester was born in Union City, New Jersey, to John Lang and Elizabeth Frank. He married Lillian Sutherland, and the pair had three children together. She died suddenly in 1942.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/490712039/?terms=%22lillian+lang%22|title=Mrs. Lillian Lang|last=|first=|date=31 Jul 1942|website=The Hackensack Record|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-09-19}} He worked as a photographer for 22 years at New York race tracks, and was one of the early cinematographers working in the film industry in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
Selected filmography
- Killer Diller (1948)
- Big Timers (1945)
- The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)
- Lying Lips (1939)
- God's Step Children (1938)
- Swing! (1938)
- Underworld (1937)
- Ten Minutes to Live (1932)
- Amor in Montagna (1932)
- Love's Interlude (1932){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PAAZnSrL0ZoC&dq=%22lester+lang%22+cinematographer&pg=PA294|title=The Films of Edgar G. Ulmer|last=Herzogenrath|first=Bernd|date=2009-05-20|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810867369|language=en}}
- The Darktown Revue (1931)
- The Exile (1931)
- The House of Secrets (1929)
- The Mad Marriage (1925)
- The Mohican's Daughter (1922){{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S08_AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22lester+lang%22+cinematographer&pg=PA119|title=American Cinematographer|date=1922|publisher=ASC Holding Corporation|language=en}}
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