Egil Woxholt

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Egil Severin Woxholt (born April 21, 1926 in Cheshire , † April 1991 in London ) was a British-Norwegian cameraman, a specialist in underwater and other special shots.

Life

Woxholt, son of a Norwegian who emigrated to England shortly after the First World War, began his professional career as a second camera assistant (so-called clapper loader ) in the late 1940s . In 1957 he was one of several camera assistants on site in East Africa for the outdoor shots of the Peter Alexander fun play Münchhausen in Africa , its first German production.

Woxholt's career received a significant boost in the early 1960s when he specialized in underwater photography, beginning in 1960 with the horror film A Dead Plays the Piano and the Jules Verne adaptation The Mysterious Island . He provided his most famous special shots as a second unit cameraman for the James Bond films Fireball and On Her Majesty's Secret Service . In 1964 he went on a film tour to his parents' homeland, where he was in the Telemark Province, under the direction of Hollywood veteran Anthony Mann, as the second unit director of the war film "Heavy Water" with Kirk Douglas in the role of a Norwegian resister took over.

In 1980/81 Woxholt served - again for special shots - as one of eight cameramen in Wolfgang Petersen 's submarine drama Das Boot , which was created in Munich . In the mid-1980s, after working on his last Bond adventure In the Face of Death and another second unit director (the dinosaur adventure Baby - The Secret of a Lost Legend ), Woxholt retired into private life. Woxholt's sister was the Oslo-born actress Greta Gynt (1916-2000).

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SURNAME Woxholt, Egil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woxholt, Egil Severin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Norwegian cameraman, an expert in underwater and other specialty shots
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Cheshire
DATE OF DEATH April 1991
Place of death London