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Jan 8, 2003 · Esteemed three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, ASC — who helped changed the face of modern motion pictures with his camerawork in such films as The Professionals, In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty and Road to Perdition — died on January 4, 2003 at the age of 76.
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May 25, 2020 · Once in the guild, Hall worked as a camera assistant with Burnie Guffey, ASC, Ernie Haller, ASC, Hal Mohr, ASC and Ted McCord, ASC. After a year with McCord, Hall was upgraded to operator. The young operator was working on a TV series called Stoney Burke when McCord got sick; Hall was asked to take over.
- Stephen Pizzello
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Conrad Lafcadio Hall, ASC (June 21, 1926 – January 4, 2003) was a French Polynesian-born American cinematographer. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he became widely prominent as a cinematographer earning numerous accolades including three Academy Awards (with ten nominations), three BAFTA Awards and five American Society of Cinematographers Awards.
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- January 4, 2003 (aged 76), Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Sep 27, 2011 · Hall had help from another rising star on the technical side: Just as Ted McCord had taken Hall under his wing, Hall's camera operator on "The Outer Limits" was William A. Fraker (1923-2010), who quickly joined the ranks of top cinematographers with credits including "Bullitt" and "Rosemary's Baby" (both 1968). Both Hall and Fraker had their ...
Sep 21, 2017 · “A little trick I picked up from my old pal, Ted McCord, ASC, came in handy for solving this problem,” Hall observes. “Neutral density gelatin filters were carefully cut to mask just the sand dune areas of a scene. These gels were pasted directly onto the front element of the lens by means of transparent cellophane tape.
Jan 24, 2003 · He worked with Floyd Crosby (High Noon) as a second assistant and then as camera operator under super-old-school cameraman Ted McCord. “We shot East Of Eden, Johnny Belinda, Treasure Of The Sierra Madre, all those great films,” Hall says. “(McCord) was a great, great, great cinematographer. I call him my ‘Father.’”
Aug 14, 2023 · Ted Hall was born Alvin Holzberg in New York City in 1925, to a family of Jewish immigrants. He began his college studies at the age of 14 and then moved on to study physics at Harvard. In 1943, he began working at the national laboratory producing nuclear weapons at Los Alamos, New Mexico, as part of the Manhattan Project.
