1912 Interest in painting and drawing develops. Later uses photography to make studies.

1920 Studies painting and drawing at Art Institute of Chicago.

1922 Assistant to portrait photographer Eugene Hutchinson.

1925 Hired by Edgar Payne, founder of Laguna Beach Museum of Art, to photograph paintings, then persuaded to move West to paint and photograph.

1927 Opens photography studio in Los Angeles. Chance printing assignment for Steichen leads to work in commercial portrait and advertising photography. First Hollywood celebrity portrait: Ramon Novarro.

1928 Portraits of Novarro, seen by Norma Shearer, lead to job creating a new, more sexually provocative image for Shearer. Resulting photographs, shown to her husband, Irving Thalberg, lead to her role in The Divorcee (1930).

1930-33 Hired by Thalberg as head of MGM portrait gallery at $150 per week. Subjects at MGM include Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, and Greta Garbo (in a single session for Romance, 1930).

1933 Leaves MGM to open studio on Sunset Strip, continuing to photograph Hollywood's leading celebrities as well as pursuing other commercial work.

1935 Leases New York City studio to work in fashion industry and pursue portraiture.

1936 Contribution photographer for Esquire, then returns to Hollywood.

1938 Under contract at Warner Bros. subjects include Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bette Davis, and Errol Flynn.

1941 Opens Beverly Hills studio with Garbo as his landlord.

1942 While under contract at Columbia, joins First Motion Picture Unit, U.S. Army Air Force; photographs generals at the Pentagon.

1943 Discharged from armed services, resumes work at Columbia.

1946-49 Leaves Columbia to resume commercial photography career, working on both coasts.

1954-56 Produces television commercials for J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency.

1958 Producer, director, and occasional cinematographer for television commercial production company coorganized with Walt Disney Productions.

1960-69 As freelance still photographer shoots The Danny Thomas Show and Gunsmoke.

1969-76 Feature films as freelance still photographer include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Towering Inferno (1974), and All the President's Men (1976). Subjects of commissioned portraits include Liza Minnelli, Paul Newman, and Robert Redford.

1976-80 Semi-retirement.

1981-92 Continues freelance portraiture for magazines; subjects include Farrah Fawcett, Bette Midler, Brooke Shields, and John Travolta.

1992 Survived by wife and sons.

With Whitney Stine, The Hurrell Style (New York: John Day, 1977).

By Gene Thornton, The Portfolios of George Hurrell (Santa Monica, CA: 1991).

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, Still Men: The Glamour Photographs of Max Munn Autrey and George Hurrell, 1920-1950, 1995.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, Unseen Hurrell: Classics and Rediscovered Works, 1995.

Alyce De Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College, Pasadena, Hollywood, Hollywood: Identity Under the Guise of Celebrity, 1992.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Masters of Starlight, 1987.

National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., The Art of the Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers, 1983.

Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Hollywood Portrait Photographers 1921-41, 1981.

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Glamour Portraits, 1965.