Larry Pizer
Larry Pizer (born May 19, 1925 in London , † February 27, 2008 in New York , USA ) was a British cameraman .
Live and act
Pizer began his career at the age of 15 as a delivery boy at Korda Studios and was finally assigned to the camera department in 1942 while filming Leslie Howard's films The First of the Few and The Gentle Sex . He quickly became the first camera assistant before he was drafted into the Royal Navy in 1943. Back in civil life after the war, Larry Pizer gradually worked his way up from camera assistant to simple cameraman (camera operator) to chief cameraman (cinematographer).
His first independently photographed works in the mid-1950s were short or short documentaries, and he received his first commission for a feature film in early 1963 with the melodrama The World Ten Times Over by director Wolf Rilla . In the following years, the Londoner was behind the camera in a number of mostly smaller productions. Pizer has collaborated several times with a number of leading directors on both sides of the Atlantic, including Karel Reisz , Brian De Palma and Lamont Johnson . Director Anthony Simmons, with whom Pizer shot Die Optimisten (with Peter Sellers in the lead role) in 1973 , praised his innovative strength in lighting technology and the fact that, thanks to Pizer's pictures, the city of London has rarely been painted so beautifully on celluloid (" painted on celluloid so beautifully ") be.
Pizer's most photographically most important film was The Europeans from the hand of director James Ivory in 1978 , a coherent, subtle portrait of society from the mid-19th century. There, as in Pizer's best work, his precise milieu studies were particularly convincing, which he was able to capture in atmospheric images ideally reproducing the time and its social environment. In the 80s, he mainly photographed less demanding dramas and melodramas for American television. After his convincing photography of the directorial excursion of long-time Ivory partner and producer Ismail Merchant , The Proprietor , which was quite weak in terms of directing , Pizer ended his career at the age of 70.
Larry Pizer left two daughters and two grandchildren.
Filmography (selection)
Films as head cameraman unless otherwise stated
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Web links
- Larry Pizer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Remarks
- ↑ precise date of birth according to the film archive Kay Less
- ^ Obituary for Larry Pizer in Variety
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| SURNAME | Pizer, Larry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 2008 |
| Place of death | New York City |