Lester Lang | |
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Born | Lester Stephen Lang August 15, 1896 Fort Lee, New Jersey, USA |
Died | August 1969 (aged 73) Bergenfield, New Jersey, USA |
Years active | 1922–1948 |
Lester Lang was an American cinematographer known for lensing several of Oscar Micheaux's films in the 1930s.[1][2]
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.[3] 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.[2]