- Never made a black-and-white feature film despite having started shooting features in 1941.
- Was the second of only three cinematographers--the first being Leon Shamroy and the most recent being John Toll--to win back-to-back Oscars. His were for Victor Fleming's Joan of Arc (1948) and John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949).
- Is also the only cinematographer to share an Oscar with a credited second unit cinematographer, Archie Stout, for John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952).
- Educated at the California Institute of Technology. He became a color specialist for the Technicolor Corp., working to develop its three-color system.
- Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
- His father, Augustus Hoch, holds a US patent for a machine he invented to make cement blocks; up to that time, they had been made by hand.
- Profiled in "American Classic Screen Interviews" (Scarecrow Press). (2010)
- Last name pronounced "Hoke" or "Huke" (accounts differ), but not "Hock."
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