Jordan Cronenweth

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Jordan Scott Cronenweth (born February 20, 1935 in Los Angeles , † November 29, 1996 there ) was an American cameraman .

Life

Cronenweth had studied engineering at City College Los Angeles and started working as an errand boy at Columbia Pictures Laboratory . He then went to Oklahoma as a cameraman for a short time , but returned to Los Angeles in the 1960s, where he initially worked as a simple cameraman for films such as We Are Hell (1968) and as a second-unit cameraman towards the end of the decade (at Embers of Violence , 1969) worked. In 1969 he was also responsible for television as chief cameraman ( Trilogy ).

In 1970 he was promoted to chief cameraman in Robert Altman's production Nur flies is more beautiful, also in the cinema. During this decade, Cronenweth photographed a number of films, some of which were of high quality, including Billy Wilder's Screwball-Groteske Extrablatt , Jan Troell's visually stunning romance Zandy's Bride and, in 1979, Ken Russell's psychedelic thriller The Hell Trip .

His most important work is camera work on Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). For this film he was awarded a BAFTA Award in 1983 .

For the film Peggy Sue got married he was nominated in 1987 for an Oscar in the category “Best Cinematography”. He also worked on the music films Rattle and Hum by the band U2 and Stop Making Sense from Talking Heads and directed the camera on the Madonna video Oh, Father .

He was initially a cameraman for the film Alien 3 , but was fired after only 10 days for working too slowly. At that time he was already suffering from Parkinson's disease , from which he died in 1996. His son Jeff Cronenweth also works as a cameraman ( Fight Club ).

In a survey by the International Cinematographers Guild in 2003, his colleagues voted him into the list of the eleven most artistically influential cameramen in film history.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cinematographers pick their top 11 . LA Times, October 17, 2003. The other cameramen on the Top 11 list were Billy Bitzer , James Wong Howe , Gregg Toland , Freddie Young , Conrad L. Hall , Sven Nykvist , Vittorio Storaro , Haskell Wexler , Gordon Willis, and Vilmos Zsigmond .

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 210.
personal data
SURNAME Cronenweth, Jordan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cronenweth, Jordan Scott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1996
Place of death los Angeles