death_date death_place birth_place name birth_date yearsactive article_title birth_name occupation
4 july 1918 new york city , new york plymouth , devon , england walter stradling 1875 1914-1918 walter stradling
 walter ernest stradling cinematographer
walter stradling

walter stradling -lrb- 1875 - july 4 , 1918 -rrb- was an english born american cinematographer of the silent era .
he 's best remembered for working on several well-known feature films of mary pickford and for the famous players-lasky production company in general .
he also worked on the films of cecil b. demille , sessue hayakawa and blanche sweet .
stradling died relatively young at 43 in the 1918 flu pandemic .
he was the uncle of cinematographer harry stradling .
