Vernon L. Walker

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| name = Vernon L. Walker

| birth_date = {{birth date|1894|5|2}}

| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|1948|3|1|1894|5|2}}

| death_place = Los Angeles County, California, United States

| occupation = Special effects artist, cinematographer

| yearsactive = 1920–1948

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Vernon L. Walker (May 2, 1894 – March 1, 1948) was an American special effects artist and cinematographer. He was nominated for four Academy Awards for Best Special Effects. He worked on more than 220 films during his career, starting out as a head cameraman for Otis B. Thayer's Art-O-Graf Film Company in 1919.

Selected filmography

Walker was nominated for four Academy Awards for his work in special effects:

Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Swiss Family Robinson (1940){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1941 |title=The 13th Academy Awards (1941) Nominees and Winners |access-date=June 19, 2013 |work=oscars.org}}
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Navy Comes Through (1942){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1943 |title=The 15th Academy Awards (1943) Nominees and Winners |access-date=June 22, 2013 |work=oscars.org}}
Bombardier (1943){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1944 |title=The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners |access-date=June 22, 2013 |work=oscars.org}}
Days of Glory (1944){{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1945 |title=The 17th Academy Awards (1945) Nominees and Winners |access-date=June 23, 2013 |work=oscars.org}}
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Notorious (1946)

Walker additionally had extensive credits as a cinematographer in the 1920s and 1930s before fully transitioning to special effects work: