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Oscar winning cameraman Haskell Wexler dies at 93
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood's most famous and
honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win
Oscars for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and the Woody Guthrie biopic
"Bound for Glory," died Sunday. He was 93.
Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man
Jeff Wexler, told The Associated Press.
A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant
and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon
Voight anti-war classic, "Coming Home," the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger
racial drama "In the Heat of the Night" and the Oscar-winning adaptation of
Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
He was also the rare cinematographer known enough to the general public to
receive a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
"He was a wonderful father. I owe most of who I am to his wisdom and
guidance," said his son, nominated for Oscars himself for "Independence
Day" and "The Last Samurai."
"Even in an industry where, when you're working on a movie, there is not
much else you can do, he was always there for me," Jeff Wexler said.
Fonda praised Wexler on her Twitter account.
"The brilliant, beloved Oscar-winning cinematographer, Haskell Wexler has
died. He was my friend. He filmed 'Coming Home' and a documentary with me
and Tom Hayden in North Vietnam in 1973. He was brave & gorgeous and I
loved him," she wrote.
When the elder Wexler wasn't working on big-budget studio fare, he traveled
the world directing and photographing documentaries for favorite causes.
His 1969 "Medium Cool" mixed documentary and dramatic elements, telling the
story of a fictional television photographer (Robert Forster) who covers
the violence between Chicago police and protesters at the 1968 Democratic
National Convention. The real-life unrest was filmed on the spot for the
movie, and its "cinema verite" approach was closely studied by aspiring
filmmakers.
"I was under surveillance for the entire seven weeks I was in Chicago, by
the police, the Army and the Secret Service," Wexler once told a reporter.
Throughout his career, Wexler was noted for his versatile and intuitive
approach.
For "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," the last film to receive an Oscar for
best black and white cinematography, he used hand-held cameras to capture
the tension of the tirades between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. For
"In the Heat of the Night," he put silks over the tops of sets and aimed
lights at their centers. His aim was to contribute to the tension between
Poitier's big-city black detective and Steiger's Southern white lawman.
As visual consultant on George Lucas' "American Graffiti," he hosed down
the streets to achieve a moody, reflective style. He helped give Terence
Malick's "Days of Heaven" a hazy, dreamlike atmosphere.
Wexler was also noted for his clashes with directors. Francis Ford Coppola
fired him during the filming of "The Conversation." Milos Forman dropped
him during the filming of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Wexler
shared the cinematography credit with Bill Butler.
"I don't think there's a movie I've been on that I didn't think I could
direct better," he said in 2005.
For one of his documentaries, 2006's "Who Needs Sleep?" Wexler turned his
attention to the film industry itself, decrying the long hours endured by
Hollywood set workers. It was inspired by the death of a worker who fell
asleep driving his car after a 19-hour stint on a movie set.
Wexler's other documentaries include: "The Bus," about the Freedom Riders
who risked their lives to integrate the South in the 1960s; "Latino," which
examined American policy in Nicaragua; "Interviews with My Lai Veterans,"
which shined a light on survivors of U.S. brutality in Vietnam; and
"Brazil: Report on Torture."
Born into a well-to-do Chicago family on Feb. 6, 1922, Wexler was still in
grade school when he went to work for a photographer involved in the
trade-union movement. At age 12, he recorded his family's vacation in
Mussolini's Italy with his family's home-movie camera.
His childhood friends included a fellow lifelong rebel: Publisher Barney
Rosset, who helped bring down censorship laws by publishing unexpurgated
editions of D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Henry Miller's
"Tropic of Cancer."
Wexler left the University of California, Berkeley, 18 months into his
studies to enlist in the Merchant Marine as the U.S. was about to enter
World War II. After his ship was torpedoed off the tip of South Africa,
Wexler helped some of the sailors join him in a lifeboat.
Returning to Chicago, he made films for the United Electrical Workers Union
before moving to Hollywood in 1960, where he made his feature debut in 1963
on Elia Kazan's immigrant drama "America, America." It brought instant
acclaim and steady work.
A photographer on dozens of feature films, dozens more documentaries and
scores of TV commercials, Wexler remained active for decades. At age 89, he
received an Emmy nomination as the cameraman for Billy Crystal's
"61(asterisk)," the HBO film about Roger Maris' record-setting home run
season. A few years earlier, Wexler himself was the subject of a
documentary, "Tell Them Who You Are," directed by another of his sons, Mark
Wexler.
His last film credit, the biopic "To Begin the World Over Again: The Life
of Thomas Paine," is in postproduction, according to the Internet Movie
Database.
"Movies are a voyeuristic experience," he once said of the attraction to
the work. "You have to make the audience feel like they are peeking through
a keyhole. I think of myself as the audience. Then I use light, framing and
motion to create a focal point."
In addition to his sons, Wexler is survived by a daughter, Kathy Wexler,
and his wife, Rita Taggart.
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