Les grands directeurs de la photographie (chefs op)
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Trained as an electrical engineer, Joseph LaShelle entered the film industry as a lab assistant with Paramount in 1920 in order to finance entry to Stanford University. Having worked his way up to superintendent of the Paramount printing room after three years, he decided to stay on. By 1925, he was being mentored by the veteran cinematographer Charles G. Clarke under whose auspices he gained valuable experience behind the camera. Subsequently, LaShelle worked as camera operator for Metropolitan Studios, Pathe and Fox in the 1930s, often in collaboration with Arthur C. Miller. In the wake of a decade-long apprenticeship, he was promoted to full director of photography in 1943, from there on gaining a reputation as one of Hollywood's foremost stylists. His chief talent lay in his ability to employ lighting, decor, close-ups and clever camera angles to convey a grainy realistic, natural look, especially vital to the ambience of films noirs.
Another aspect of LaShelle's artistry lay in suggesting a bigger budget than was sometimes in play. This was notably the case with Laura (1944), for which he won his only Oscar. Virtually every scene takes place indoors, without significant exterior footage beyond a few basic studio shots. In the absence of streets and traffic, LaShelle nonetheless succeeded in creating a believable Park Avenue jet-set, replete with elegant apartments and swank restaurants. He did much of his best work under contract at 20th Century Fox (1943-1954) and for expert directors like Martin Ritt (The Long, Hot Summer (1958)), Otto Preminger ("Laura", Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) and Billy Wilder (The Apartment (1960), The Fortune Cookie (1966)). He retired in 1969 and died of natural causes twenty years later, aged 89.- Cinematographer
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The favorite cinematographer of legendary director Alfred Hitchcock began working at Warner Bros. when he was 19 years old. He climbed his way up from camera operator to assistant camera man and eventually took over the Special Photographic Effects unit at Warners on Stage 5 in 1944. He became an expert in forced perspective techniques which were widely in use at the time as cost-saving measures, or on B-pictures. Burks did special effects work on major productions like Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), The Unsuspected (1947) and Key Largo (1948).
In 1949, Burks graduated to becoming a fully-fledged director of photography. His striking black & white work on The Fountainhead (1949) was particularly evocative in showcasing the stark, austere architectural lines of the film's chief protagonist, Howard Roark (Gary Cooper). On the strength of this, and his next film, The Glass Menagerie (1950), Hitchcock hired him to shoot his thriller Strangers on a Train (1951). From this developed one of Hollywood's most inspired collaborations, as well as a close personal friendship.
When his contract at Warner Brothers expired in 1953, Burks followed Hitchcock to Paramount and went on to play an integral part in creating the brooding, tension-laden atmosphere of the director's best work between 1954 and 1964. His range varied from the neo-realist, almost semi-documentary black & white look of The Wrong Man (1956) to the intensely warm and beautiful deep focus VistaVision colour photography of Vertigo (1958). His muted tones matching the claustrophobic setting of Rear Window (1954) stood in sharp contrast to the vibrant, full-hued colours used in the expansive outdoor footage of To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959).
The experience Burks had gained in forced perspective miniatures in his early days at Warner Brothers, also stood him in good stead on 'Vertigo' (the mission tower), 'North by Northwest' (the Mount Rushmore scenes) and, later, 'The Birds'. Because of his expertise, Burks was often able to contribute ideas to shooting scenes more effectively. He was also an innovator in the application of both telephoto and wide angle lenses as a means to creating a specific mood. The Hitchcock-Burks partnership ended after Marnie (1964), and, under less-inspired directors (except for A Patch of Blue (1965)), his later work inevitably declined in quality. Robert Burks and his wife, Elysabeth, were tragically killed in a fire at their house in May 1968.
Robert Burks won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Colour Photography for 'To Catch a Thief'. He was also nominated for 'Strangers on a Train', 'Rear Window' and 'A Patch of Blue'.- Cinematographer
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Walter Wottitz was born in 1911. He was a cinematographer, known for The Longest Day (1962), Army of Shadows (1969) and The Widow Couderc (1971). He died on 1 November 1986.- Cinematographer
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London-born Douglas Slocombe has long been regarded as one of the film industry's premiere cinematographers, but he began his career as a photojournalist for Life magazine and the Paris-Match newspaper before World War II. During the war he became a newsreel cameraman, and at war's end he went to work for Ealing Studios as a camera operator, making his debut as a full-fledged cinematographer on Ealing's Dead of Night (1945). Slocombe is credited with giving Ealing's films the unique, realistic look it was famous for. He left Ealing and went freelance, not wanting to be tied down to a single studio, and divided his time between England and America. He won the BAFTA--the British equivalent of the Oscar--three times, for The Servant (1963), The Great Gatsby (1974) and Julia (1977). A favorite of director Steven Spielberg, he was noted for never having used a light meter while shooting Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), an almost indispensable tool for most cinematographers.- Cinematographer
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Gilbert Taylor was born on 21 April 1914 in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Flash Gordon (1980) and The Omen (1976). He was married to Dee Vaughan and Eileen Donnelly. He died on 23 August 2013 in Newport, Isle of Wight, England, UK.- Cinematographer
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Although Henri Decaë gained fame as a cinematographer, he actually entered the film industry as an editor and soundman. Serving as a cameraman in the French army during WW II, upon his release he began making documentaries and directing and photographing industrial and commercial films, then in 1947 made his first feature. His documentary background showed in the look of the films he photographed, and he worked often with directors Louis Malle and Claude Chabrol. From those early, gritty films, Decae evolved into one of the premier cinematographers of plush, big-budget extravaganzas.- Cinematographer
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Massimo Dallamano was born on 17 April 1917 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Tierra mágica (1959) and What Have You Done to Solange? (1972). He died on 14 November 1976 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Cinematographer
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Gianni Di Venanzo was born on 18 December 1920 in Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a cinematographer, known for 8½ (1963), The Girlfriends (1955) and Juliet of the Spirits (1965). He died on 3 February 1966 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Cinematographer
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Two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler was adjudged one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history, according to an International Cinematographers Guild survey of its membership. He won his Oscars in both black & white and color, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) (1966) and Bound for Glory (1976) (1976). He also shot part of Days of Heaven (1978) (1978), for which credited director of photography Nestor Almendros -- won a Best Cinematography Oscar that Wexler initially felt should have been jointly shared by both. Later he admitted he was just finishing the work of Almendros and when Bert Schneider offer him more credit in the Criterion Dvd release of the film, he turned down the offer. In 1993, Wexler was awarded a Lifetime Achivement award by the cinematographer's guild, the American Society of Cinematographers. He received five Oscar nominations for his cinematography, in total, plus one Emmy Award in a career that has spanned six decades.
In addition to his masterful cinematography, Wexler directed the seminal late Sixties film Medium Cool (1969) and has directed and/or shot many documentaries that display his progressive political views. He was the subject of a 2004 documentary shot by his son Mark Wexler, Tell Them Who You Are (2004).- Cinematographer
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Tonino Delli Colli was born on 20 November 1922 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for The Name of the Rose (1986), Life Is Beautiful (1997) and Bitter Moon (1992). He was married to Alexandra Delli Colli. He died on 16 August 2005 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Cinematographer
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Sven Nykvist was considered by many in the industry to be one of the world's greatest cinematographers. During his long career that spanned almost half a century, Nyvist perfected the art of cinematography to its most simple attributes, and he helped give the films he had worked on the simplest and most natural look imaginable. Indeed, Mr. Nykvist prided himself on the simplicity and naturalness of his lighting schemes. Nykvist used light to create mood and, more significantly, to bring out the natural flesh tones in the human face so that the emotion of the scene could be played out on the face without the light becoming intrusive.
Nykvist entered the Swedish film industry when he was 19 and worked his way up to becoming a director of photography. He first worked with the legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman on the film Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), but his collaboration with Bergman began in earnest with The Virgin Spring (1960). From that point on, Nykvist replaced the great Gunnar Fischer as Bergman's cameraman, and the two men started a collaboration that would last for a quarter of a century. The switch from Fischer to Nykvist created a marked difference in the look of Bergman's films. In many respects, it was like the difference between Caravaggio and Rembrandt. Fischer's lighting was a study in light and darkness, while Nykvist preferred a more naturalistic, more subtle approach that in many ways relied on the northern light compositions of the many great Scandinavian painters.
Nykvist's work with Bergman is one of the most glorious collaborations in movie history. Nykvist created a markedly different look for each installment of Bergman's Faith Trilogy. Through a Glass Darkly (1961) had an almost suffocating quality to it, and The Silence (1963) hearkened back to the days of German Expressionism. Winter Light (1963), the middle part of the trilogy, may very well be the most perfect work of Nykvist's repertoire. Having studied the light in a real provincial church carefully, he then recreated the subtle changes in the light as the day went on on a Stockholm sound stage. Indeed, it's hard to believe that the film was shot on a stage and not in a real church in Northern Sweden. For Persona (1966), Nykvist relied heavily on Sweden's famous Midnight Sun. In The Passion of Anna (1969), Nykvist was able to capture the chilly, soggy, and melancholy look of Faro, one of Nykvist's first color films. Both Nykvist and Bergman were both very reluctant to film in color. He created a fascinating study of white and red in Cries & Whispers (1972), for which Nykvist won an Oscar. He won an Oscar again for the last feature-length theatrical film that Bergman made, Fanny and Alexander (1982).
During the late 1970s, Nykvist began making films elsewhere in Europe and in the United States, working for directors such as Louis Malle (Pretty Baby (1978)), Philip Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)), Bob Fosse (Star 80 (1983)), Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle (1993)), Woody Allen (Another Woman (1988), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)), Richard Attenborough (Chaplin (1992)), and fellow Swede Lasse Hallström (What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)). The documentary Ljuset håller mig sällskap (2000) paid homage to Nykvist, although it does not grant us any real secrets about his working methods. Nykvist died in 2006.- Cinematographer
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Giuseppe 'Peppino' Rotunno entered the film industry as a still photographer at Cinecitta but lost his job due to his anti-fascist views. Conscripted and sent to Greece in 1942, he then served as a newsreel cameraman with the Italian army film unit. A year later, he was captured during the German occupation of Greece and spent two years internment in Germany. Freed by US troops in April 1945, Rotunno returned to Italy. During the following decade, he worked his way up the ladder from a humbly paid assistant cameraman to director of photography. The romantic comedy Scandal in Sorrento (1955) was the first motion picture he shot in that capacity and he has since worked with some of Italy's leading post-war directors. His most famous collaborations were with Luchino Visconti, whom he regarded as his mentor (White Nights (1957), Rocco and His Brothers (1960), The Leopard (1963)) and with Federico Fellini (Fellini Satyricon (1969), Amarcord (1973)). Rotunno acquired a well-deserved reputation for creating realistic, opulent, nostalgic or uncanny atmospheres through ingenious use of lighting techniques. His work in the international field has included the Ava Gardner starrers The Naked Maja (1958) and The Angel Wore Red (1960), Stanley Kramer's On the Beach (1959), Arthur Hiller's Man of La Mancha (1972), Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979) (1981 BAFTA winner and 1980 Oscar nominee) and the remake of Sabrina (1995), starring Harrison Ford. In 1966, Rotunno became the first non-US citizen admitted to join the American Society of Cinematographers. From 1988, he taught at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome where he died on February 7 2021 at the age of 97..- Cinematographer
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Aldo Scavarda was born on 22 August 1923 in Turin, Italy. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for L'Avventura (1960), La linea del fiume (1976) and Come Play with Me (1968).- Cinematographer
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Ghislain Cloquet was born on 18 April 1924 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Tess (1979), Love and Death (1975) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). He was married to Sonia Salvy-Matossian and Sophie Becker. He died on 2 November 1981 in Montainville, Yvelines, France.- Cinematographer
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Raoul Coutard was born on 16 September 1924 in Paris, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Hoa Binh (1970), Alphaville (1965) and Z (1969). He died on 8 November 2016 in Labenne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.- Cinematographer
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Jean Boffety was born on 7 June 1925 in Chantelle, Allier, France. He was a cinematographer, known for A Simple Story (1978), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Dog Day (1984). He died on 25 June 1988 in Paris, France.- Cinematographer
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Levan Paatashvili was born on 12 March 1926 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR [now Republic of Georgia]. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for Tojinebi itsinian (1963), Last Day, First Day (1960) and Blue Mountains, or Unbelievable Story (1983). He died on 24 January 2023 in Georgia.- Cinematographer
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Edmond Richard was born on 6 January 1927 in Paris, France. He was a cinematographer, known for The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), Les Misérables (1982) and The Trial (1962). He died on 5 June 2018.- Cinematographer
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Jean Badal was born on 7 March 1927 in Budapest, Hungary. He was a cinematographer, known for Playtime (1967), Vortex (1976) and Gábor diák (1956). He died on 9 October 2015 in Hungary.- Cinematographer
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Jean Rabier was born on 16 March 1927 in Montfort-l'Amaury, Île-de-France, France. He was a cinematographer, known for Elevator to the Gallows (1958), The 400 Blows (1959) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). He died on 15 February 2016 in Port-de-Bouc, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.- Cinematographer
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Victor J. Kemper was born on 14 April 1927 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for The Final Countdown (1980), Clue (1985) and Vacation (1983). He was married to Claire. He died on 27 November 2023 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.- Cinematographer
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Pasqualino De Santis was born on 24 April 1927 in Fondi, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer, known for Romeo and Juliet (1968), Death in Venice (1971) and Three Brothers (1981). He died on 23 June 1996 in Lviv, Ukraine.- Cinematographer
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Alfio Contini was born on 19 September 1927 in Castiglioncello, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was a cinematographer, known for Beyond the Clouds (1995), Uno scandalo perbene (1984) and The Easy Life (1962). He died on 23 March 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Cinematographer
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Jean Penzer was born on 1 October 1927 in Livry-Gargan, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. He was a cinematographer, known for He Died with His Eyes Open (1985), A Room in Town (1982) and Buffet Froid (1979). He died on 20 May 2021 in Chatenay-Malabry, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Cinematographer
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Luigi Kuveiller was born on 3 October 1927 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Deep Red (1975) and A Quiet Place in the Country (1968). He died on 10 January 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Cinematographer
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Pierre Lhomme was born on 5 April 1930 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Cyrano de Bergerac (1990), Camille Claudel (1988) and Tell Her That I Love Her (1977). He was married to Renée Baudin and Irina Charitonoff. He died on 4 July 2019 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.- Cinematographer
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Giuseppe Ruzzolini was born on 21 May 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer, known for Firestarter (1984), My Name Is Nobody (1973) and Duck, You Sucker! (1971). He died on 16 April 2007 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Cinematographer
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Along with László Kovács, a fellow student who fled Hungary in 1956, Zsigmond rose to prominence in the 1970s. He is known for his use of natural light and vivid use of color on features such as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).- Cinematographer
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Ennio Guarnieri was born on 12 October 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer, known for La Dolce Vita (1960), La Traviata (1982) and Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972). He died on 1 July 2019 in Licata, Sicily, Italy.- Cinematographer
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One of the highest appraised contemporary cinematographers. He was born in Spain but moved to Cuba by age 18 to join his exiled anti-Franco father. In Havana, he founded a cineclub and wrote film reviews. Then, he went on to study in Rome at the Centro Sperimentale. He directed six shorts in Cuba and two in New York. After the 1959 Cuban revolution, he returned and made several documentaries for the Castro-regime. But after two of his shorts (Gente en la playa (1960) and La Tumba Francesca) had been banned, he moved to Paris. There he became the favourite cameraman of Éric Rohmer and François Truffaut. In 1978, he started his impressive Hollywood-career. In his later years, he co-directed two documentaries about the human rights situation in Cuba: Improper Conduct (1984) (about the persecution of gay people) and Nadie escuchaba (1987). He shot several prestigious commercials for Giorgio Armani and Calvin Klein. Nestor Almendros died of cancer.- Cinematographer
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Mac Ahlberg was born on 12 June 1931 in Ängelholm, Skåne län, Sweden. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Striking Distance (1993), Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986). He was married to Mary. He died on 26 October 2012 in Cupra Marittima, Marche, Italy.- Cinematographer
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Willy Kurant was born on 15 February 1934 in Liege, Belgium. He was a cinematographer, known for Under the Sun of Satan (1987), Pootie Tang (2001) and The Mafia Wants Blood (1970). He died on 1 May 2021 in Paris, France.- Cinematographer
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John A. Alonzo was born on 12 June 1934 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Chinatown (1974), The Magnificent Seven (1960) and Star Trek: Generations (1994). He was married to Suzanne L. Heltzel and Jan Murray. He died on 13 March 2001 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.- Cinematographer
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Michael Chapman is an American cinematographer. He is best known for Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The Fugitive (1993), and Primal Fear (1996).
Chapman began his film career as a camera operator before making the leap to cinematographer. As a cinematographer, he became famous for his two collaborations with Martin Scorsese.
He was also cinematographer for the hit remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).
In 1987, Chapman collaborated again with Martin Scorsese on the 18-minute short film that served as the music video for Michael Jackson: Bad (1987).- Cinematographer
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André Goeffers was born in 1934 in Montignies-sur-Sambre, Belgium. He was a cinematographer, known for Déjà s'envole la fleur maigre (1960), Tango Tango (1994) and Chine (1971). He died in 2013.André (Franz Gilbert) Goeffers est un directeur de la photographie belge et cinéaste né le 25 février 1934 à Montignies-sur-Sambre et mort d'une crise cardiaque le 28 décembre 2013 à Anderlecht.
Il a photographié plusieurs films belges importants comme ''Déjà s'envole la fleur maigre'' et ''La plus longue nuit du diable''.
Biographie
En 1956, il commence sa carrière comme stagiaire (deuxième assistant opérateur) pour Ghislain Cloquet sur ''Toute la mémoire du monde'' d'Alain Resnais.
En 1957, André Goeffers est diplômé en réalisation, avec certificat complémentaire en prise de vues, de l'IDHEC à Paris.
En 1959 il devient premier assistant opérateur de Jean Delire sur "Liège, haut lieu de l'esprit" de Jean Antoine, du même Delire sur "Une jeune paysan" de Serge Leroy, de Willy Kurant sur "La dernière toile" de Harry Fischbach et de Freddy Rents sur "Déjà s'envole la fleur maigre" de Paul Meyer. En cours de tournage, il remplace Rents et devient donc le directeur de la photographie. Goeffers réalise aussi le montage sonore du film.
André Goeffers collaborera encore avec Meyer sur d'autres films moins connus comme en 1961 "Le nerf de la paix", en 1962 "Il y a tant à vivre, un film sur Charles Leirens" et "Wallonie 1967 : la sidérurgie".
Dès 1959, Goeffers entre à la télévision nationale belge RTB. Jusqu'en 1976, il y travaille, comme « opérateur indépendant sur film », à de nombreuses émissions.
Au cinéma, André Goeffers est directeur de la photographie, notamment pour Edmond Bernhard, Jean Brismée, Frans Buyens et Lydia Chagoll, Emile Degelin, Jean Delire, André Delvaux, Lucien Deroisy, Paul Haesaerts, Luc de Heusch, Marc Lobet, Paul Meyer, Henri Storck, etc.
C'est notamment André Goeffers qui a photographié "Dimanche" (1960) d'Edmond Bernhard, la plupart de l'œuvre de Jean Delire, "Chine" (1971) de Gérard Valet et Henri Roanne. La même année, c'est André Goeffers qui a photographié le film d'exploitation d'épouvante érotique ''La plus longue nuit du diable'' de Jean Brismée.
Par ailleurs, Goeffers réalise des films de commande.
À partir du milieu des années 1970, il s'oriente plutôt vers les publicités et se consacre à sa carrière d'enseignant.
Enseignement
De 1968 à 1999, André Goeffers est chargé de cours de prise de vues à l'Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD à Louvain-la-neuve).
Vie privée
André Goeffers était marié, a eu trois enfants et a vécu à Kraainem, dans la banlieue flamande de Bruxelles. Il vit ses dernières années dans la commune d'Anderlecht, où il meurt d'une crise cardiaque le 28 décembre 2013.- Cinematographer
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Thomas Mauch was born on 4 April 1937 in Heidenheim/Brenz, Germany. He is a cinematographer and producer, known for Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and The Kingdom of Naples (1978).- Cinematographer
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William Lubtchansky was born on 26 October 1937 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Regular Lovers (2005), Safari diamants (1966) and La tête du client (1965). He was married to Nicole Lubtchansky. He died on 4 May 2010 in Paris, France.- Cinematographer
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Robby Müller was born on 4 April 1940 in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Breaking the Waves (1996), Paris, Texas (1984) and Repo Man (1984). He died on 3 July 2018 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Cinematographer
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Babette Mangolte is known for The Cold Eye (My Darling, Be Careful) (1980), Four Pieces by Morris (1993) and Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story (2023).- Cinematographer
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Jean-François Robin was born in 1943 in Sologne, France. He is a cinematographer and actor, known for On Guard (1997), The Browning Version (1994) and Nora (2000).- Cinematographer
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Jan de Bont was one of 17 children born into a Roman Catholic Dutch family in Eindhoven on 22 October 1943. Credited with being creative and having a good mentality for camera techniques, he became a popular cinematographer. He worked on a huge number of films before finding himself on the production of Speed (1994), his first film as a director. He has resided in Los Angeles since 1968.
The film was a success and took him onto the next set for Twister (1996), which he also directed. But then the total flops started coming his way: firstly, Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997), which he wrote and directed but without the company of Keanu Reeves. He also directed the star-packed The Haunting (1999) but that also failed at the box office. Later, he directed Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003). He is still active in cinema.- Cinematographer
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Pierre-William Glenn was born on 31 October 1943 in Paris, France. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Extérieur, nuit (1980), Death Watch (1980) and 23h58 (1993).- Cinematographer
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Renato Berta was born on 2 March 1945 in Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Goodbye, Children (1987), The Hole (2021) and The King of Laughter (2021).- Cinematographer
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Multiple award-winning cinematographer Dean Cundey, ASC, CSC who was nominated for an Oscar for "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and took home the BAFTA for the same film, has a career spanning decades with awards and nominations including a Primetime Emmy (2023 "The Mandalorian") a Daytime Emmy (2001 "The Face: Jesus in Art"), a Chicago Film Critics Association award ("Apollo 13"), to American Society of Cinematographers awards ("Apollo 13," "Hook"). His prolific career also includes a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASC and a President's Award from the SOC, and he's still not done shooting. Born in Alhambra, California, Cundey spent his childhood building miniature sets and reading "American Cinematographer." Following graduation from UCLA film school, where he was taught by James Wong Howe, ASC, Cundey's first job on set was as a makeup artist on Roger Corman's "Gas!" or "It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It." Cundey's first assignment as a director of photography was on the revenge film "The No Mercy Man." He continued with other horror and exploitation movies, then began a collaboration with director John Carpenter on five films for which he received accolades: "Halloween," "The Fog," "Escape from New York," "The Thing" and "Big Trouble in Little China." Cundey transitioned into a collaboration with Robert Zemeckis on impressive features such as "Romancing the Stone," all three "Back to the Future" films, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Death Becomes Her." Not content to settle for that, he also dabbled in directing with his debut on "Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves" and was also the second-unit director on "Deep Rising" and "Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties." .- Cinematographer
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Edward Lachman was born on 31 March 1948 in Morristown, New Jersey, USA. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Far from Heaven (2002), Carol (2015) and Ken Park (2002).- Cinematographer
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Agnès Godard was born on 29 May 1951 in Dun-sur-Auron, Cher, France. She is a cinematographer and production manager, known for Beau Travail (1999), Home (2008) and Wings of Desire (1987).- Cinematographer
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Caroline Champetier was born on 16 July 1954 in Paris, France. She is a cinematographer and actress, known for Holy Motors (2012), Annette (2021) and Marée haute (1999).- Cinematographer
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Josée Deshaies is known for Big Giant Wave (2023), Saint Laurent (2014) and A Brother's Love (2019).