Joseph LaShelle ASC (July 9, 1900 – August 20, 1989) was an American film cinematographer.

LaShelle's first job in the film industry was as an assistant in the Paramount West Coast Studio lab in 1920.

Instead of going to college as planned, he remained in the film industry after a promotion to supervisor of the printing department.

[2] After working as a camera operator on Fox productions such as How Green Was My Valley (1941) and The Song of Bernadette (1943), he was promoted and became a cinematographer in 1943.

[3] Some of his well-known works are the film noirs: Laura (1944), for which he won an Oscar; Fallen Angel (1945); and Road House (1948).