Charles Rosher junior

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Charles Rosher junior , born Charles Delacey Rosher , (born July 2, 1935 in Beverly Hills , California , United States , † October 14, 2015 there ) was an American cameraman .

Life

Charles Delacey Rosher, son of the legendary cameraman Charles Rosher (1885–1974), had come across film through the contacts of his recently retired father in the mid-1950s and had learned the profession from scratch. Rosher junior's first job was that of a material assistant (so-called "camera loader") in Edward Dmytryk's sweeping southern state drama The Land of the Rain Tree , which Rosher junior performed at the age of 21. He made his living as a simple cameraman in the 1960s and was involved in the popular crime series Mannix and Kobra, Take Over in this role during the second half of that decade .

At the beginning of the 1970s, Rosher jr. to the chief cameraman. For a while, in the second half of the decade, he was allowed to shoot a number of high-quality films, including the two productions Robert Altman's Three Women and One Wedding , which were extremely well received by critics, and the no less well received crime comedy The Cat Knows the Murderer and Stanley Donens parodistic looking Hollywood navel-gazing movie movie . Soon after, Rosher's oeuvre flattened out, and the cameraman could hardly get any more worthwhile jobs.

Charles Rosher Jr. has also worked for television (e.g. in 1973 for the horror film Die Katzengöttin , 1983 for the glamor romance Princess Daisy and most recently in 1994 for the legal thriller Jake Lassiter: Justice on the Bayou ). In 1992 he made an appearance in the cinema documentary about cameramen Visions of Light - The History of Camera Work (Visions of Lights) .

Until his death, Charles Rosher Jr. was married a total of four times. His half-sister was the one generation older actress Dorothy Rosher, better known under the stage name Joan Marsh (1914-2000).

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personal data
SURNAME Rosher, Charles Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosher, Charles Delacey (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Beverly Hills , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 2015
Place of death Beverly Hills , California , United States