Stanley Cortez

Stanley Cortez (November 4, 1908 - December 23, 1997) was an American cinematographer.

Born Stanislaus Krantz in New York City, New York, Cortez worked as photographer before becoming involved with the motion picture industry. He was the cinematographer on over seventy films including Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955), and Nunnally Johnson's The Three Faces of Eve (1957).

It is said that late in his career he was approached by a committee wishing to honor him as a prominent Hispanic in the film industry, and it was with some amusement he told them was born to an Austrian Jewish family. He had changed his name following the success of his older brother, actor Ricardo Cortez (born Jacob Krantz).