Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies who have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Albert Bettcher (1920-2017) - Cameraperson. His credits as a camera operator or assistant cameraperson include Blade Runner, The Graduate, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Howard the Duck, Body Heat, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, My Stepmother Is an Alien, Some Kind of Wonderful and the 1976 King Kong. He actually died on December 21. (THR) Alan Bleviss (1941-2017) - Voice Actor. He provided voiceovers for numerous trailers, including...
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- 2/3/2018
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Albert Bettcher, a cameraman who worked on The Graduate, Batman, Blade Runner and Three Stooges movies during a career that spanned nearly a half-century in Hollywood, has died. He was 97.
A recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Camera Operators in 1990, Bettcher died Dec. 21 at his home in Pasadena, his daughter Nancy Hurley announced.
On The Graduate (1967), Bettcher served as a hand-held cameraman for director Mike Nichols and cinematographer Robert Surtees and pulled off a particularly difficult scene — the one where the camera "acts" as Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) as he...
A recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Camera Operators in 1990, Bettcher died Dec. 21 at his home in Pasadena, his daughter Nancy Hurley announced.
On The Graduate (1967), Bettcher served as a hand-held cameraman for director Mike Nichols and cinematographer Robert Surtees and pulled off a particularly difficult scene — the one where the camera "acts" as Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) as he...
- 1/19/2018
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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