Howard Zieff

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Howard Zieff (born October 21, 1927 in Chicago , Illinois , † February 22, 2009 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American photographer and film director . His most famous film, Sagittarius Benjamin, was nominated for three Oscars in 1981.

Life

Zieff grew up in the Boyle Heights district in east Los Angeles. After studying art for a year at Los Angeles City College , he joined the Navy in 1946 and studied photography at the Naval Photography School in Pensacola , Florida . After leaving the Navy, Zieff attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena , California, and worked briefly as a cameraman for a local television station. In the 1950s, he began working as a photographer in the advertising industry in New York City . He shot many commercials for American television and returned to Los Angeles in the early 1970s to direct his first full-length feature film Schleuderpart . Eight more film productions followed in the next 20 years. In the early 1990s, Zieff fell ill with Parkinson's and retired in 1994 after the completion of My Girl 2 . He died in February 2009 as a result of his illness.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernard Weinraub: “ ARTS IN AMERICA; From Ordinary Faces, Extraordinary Ads, " New York Times , February 21, 2002 (accessed February 25, 2009)
  2. ↑ Dennis McLellan: “ Howard Zieff dies at 81; directed 'Private Benjamin' and other comedies, " Los Angeles Times , February 24, 2009 (accessed February 25, 2009)
personal data
SURNAME Zieff, Howard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 2009
Place of death los Angeles