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Sol Polito
Highest Rated: 100% The Petrified Forest (1936)
Lowest Rated: 56% Santa Fe Trail (1940)
Birthday: Nov 12, 1892
Birthplace: Palermo, Italy
Former still photographer and lab assistant who graduated to cinematographer in 1917. Polito shot most of Benjamin Christensen's Hollywood films and worked several times with Michael Curtiz ("Angels with Dirty Faces" 1938, "The Sea Hawk" 1940).
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86% | 78% | Sorry, Wrong Number | Cinematographer | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | One for the Book | Cinematographer | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 49% | The Long Night | Cinematographer | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | A Stolen Life | Cinematographer | - | 1946 |
| 80% | 42% | Cloak and Dagger | Cinematographer | - | 1946 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cinderella Jones | Cinematographer | - | 1946 |
| 86% | 92% | Arsenic and Old Lace | Cinematographer | - | 1944 |
| 91% | 90% | Now, Voyager | Cinematographer | - | 1942 |
| 88% | 87% | Sergeant York | Cinematographer | - | 1941 |
| 94% | 87% | The Sea Hawk | Cinematographer | - | 1940 |
| 56% | 51% | Santa Fe Trail | Cinematographer | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | You Can't Get Away With Murder | Cinematographer | - | 1939 |
| 80% | 64% | Elizabeth the Queen | Cinematographer | - | 1939 |
| 100% | 75% | Dodge City | Cinematographer | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On Your Toes | Cinematographer | - | 1939 |
| 100% | 92% | Angels With Dirty Faces | Cinematographer | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Valley of the Giants | Cinematographer | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 20% | Ready, Willing and Able | Cinematographer | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | Varsity Show | Cinematographer | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Colleen | Cinematographer | - | 1936 |
| 100% | 80% | The Petrified Forest | Cinematographer | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sons O' Guns | Cinematographer | - | 1936 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | In Caliente | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | 67% | Shipmates Forever | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Frisco Kid | Cinematographer | - | 1935 |
| 60% | 64% | Dames | Cinematographer | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | 36% | Dark Hazard | Cinematographer | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Doctor Monica | Cinematographer | - | 1934 |
| 100% | 86% | Gold Diggers of 1933 | Cinematographer | - | 1933 |
| 96% | 74% | 42nd Street | Cinematographer | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | The Dark Horse | Cinematographer | - | 1932 |
| 96% | 91% | I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang | Cinematographer | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | Two Seconds | Cinematographer | - | 1932 |
| 83% | 72% | Three on a Match | Cinematographer | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fireman Save My Child | Cinematographer | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | 40% | Big Business Girl | Cinematographer | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Local Boy Makes Good | Cinematographer | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Going Wild | Cinematographer | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Playing Around | Cinematographer | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Widow From Chicago | Cinematographer | - | 1930 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seven Footprints to Satan | Cinematographer | - | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man and the Moment | Cinematographer | - | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scarlet Seas | Cinematographer | - | 1928 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Show Girl | Cinematographer | - | 1928 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Overland Stage | Cinematographer | - | 1927 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Roaring Rails | Cinematographer | - | 1924 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bishop of the Ozarks | Cinematographer | - | 1923 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Butterfly on the Wheel | Cinematographer | - | 1915 |