Gordon Willis
Actor
Biography
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Gordon Hugh Willis, Jr., ASC (May 28, 1931 – May 18, 2014) was an American cinematographer. He is best known for his work on Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather series as well as Woody Allen's Annie Hall and Manhattan. Fellow cinematographer William Fraker called Willis's work a "milestone in visual storytelling", while one critic suggested that Willis "defined the cinematic look of the 1970s: sophisticated compositions in which bolts of light and black put the decade's moral ambiguities into stark relief".
When the International Cinematographers Guild conducted a survey in 2003, they placed Willis among the ten most influential cinematographers in history.
As Director
Filmography
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self 2011
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self 2003
Visions of Light
as Self 1992
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
as Self 2006
'Klute' in New York
as Self 1971
Telling the Truth About Lies: The Making of "All the President's Men"
as Self 2006
Emulsional Rescue: Revealing 'The Godfather'
as Self 2008
Fog City Mavericks
as Self 2007
To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
as Himself 1980