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- Winton C. Hoch was born on July 31, 1905 in Storm Lake, Iowa, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Quiet Man (1952), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). He died on March 20, 1979 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Never made a black-and-white feature film despite having started shooting features in 1941.
- Was the second of only three cinematographers--the first being Leon Shamroy and the most recent being John Toll--to win back-to-back Oscars. His were for Victor Fleming's Joan of Arc (1948) and John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949).
- Is also the only cinematographer to share an Oscar with a credited second unit cinematographer, Archie Stout, for John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952).
- His father, Augustus Hoch, holds a US patent for a machine he invented to make cement blocks; up to that time, they had been made by hand.
- Educated at the California Institute of Technology. He became a color specialist for the Technicolor Corp., working to develop its three-color system.
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