The ‘unsung hero’

Thank you for recognizing the contribution of my grandfather, William H. Daniels, on the front page of your Hollywood commemorative section [May 21] and the caption inside that described him as an “unsung hero.” Daniels was director of photography on most of Garbo’s U.S. films. Plus Erich von Stroheim’s “Foolish Wives” and “Greed,” “Dinner at Eight,” “Winchester ‘73,” “Ocean’s Eleven,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “Valley of the Dolls” -- where, reportedly, director Mark Robson wanted a cinematographer who could replicate the ‘30s glamour look and was told, “Bill Daniels was doing it in the ‘30s.” He won an Academy Award for the 1948 film “The Naked City.”

CARLO PANNO

Burbank