Coming from a show-business family (his brother Joseph De Grasse was a director and his uncle Sam De Grasse was an actor), De Grasse entered the business as an assistant cameraman while still a high school student, and showed such promise that he was made a full-time cinematographer by age 21. He shot many silent pictures, mostly low-budget action films. When sound films arrived De Grasse went back to being a camera operator - apparently his own idea - but by the mid-30s he was again a cinematographer, and photographed many of RKOs more prominent films.. Date of Birth, 9February 1900,Maplewood, New Jersey, USA ,Date of Death, 28January 1971,Newport Beach, California, USA
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