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Robert Altman

February 15, 2008 | By Jack Egan

Robert Altman, the innovative and iconoclastic director whose five-decade Hollywood career encompassed hits from MASH to Gosford Park died in Los... »

Patricia Gregory

February 15, 2008 | By Jack Egan

Patricia Gregory, the first female dolly grip, passed away on November 7 at the age of 57. Gregory attained the position of dolly grip, still almost... »

James Glennon

February 15, 2008 | By Jack Egan

Emmy-award winning director of photography James Glennon, ASC, known for being director Alexander Payne's cinematographer on three films and for his... »

Terry Clairmont

February 8, 2008 | By Jack Egan

Terry Clairmont, co-founder and chief executive of Clairmont Camera, a leading supplier of camera equipment to many of Hollywood's top... »

Tim Barry

January 7, 2007 | By Kathy Anderson

Family and friends mourn the sudden and accidental death of assistant cameraman and longtime Panavision employee Tim Barry. On December 26, 2006,... »

Henry Bumstead

June 6, 2006 | By Jack Egan

Lloyd Henry Bumstead, whose career as one of the greatest production designers in the history of Hollywood spanned seven decades and garnered him... »

David Tomblin

November 5, 2005 | By Jack Egan

David Tomblin, the English first assistant director who was considered second to none, passed away in early August at the age of 74. One of his... »

Ray Gosnell

October 5, 2005 | By Jack Egan

Ray Gosnell, assistant director to some of Hollywood’s great helmers, died at his Los Angeles residence at 81 on August 14. The cause of death was... »

Tonino Delli Colli

September 5, 2005 | By Jack Egan

Tonino Delli Colli, the award-winning Italian cinematographer whose distinctive camerawork stretched from the birth of Italian neorealism in the 1940s... »

Alexander Golitzen

September 5, 2005 | By Jack Egan

Alexander Golitzen, the prolific and influential production designer, who received three Academy Awards in a long career that encompassed 300 movies,... »

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