Michel Hugo

Michel Hugo (* January 13, 1930 as Michel Squarciafico in Paris , France , † October 12, 2010 in Las Vegas , Nevada , USA ) was a French-born cameraman who worked in American film and television.

Live and act

The son of the cameraman S. (Simon) Hugo (born as Hugo Squarciafico) came into contact with the film world through his father at a young age. As early as the early 1950s he was serving experienced cameramen such as Paul Coteret (around 1952/53 at L'étrange Amazone ) as an assistant or second cameraman in Paris . After his last French film (as camera assistant in 1955) Hugo decided to emigrate to the USA. Once there, he was naturalized on January 29, 1960.

Hugo advanced to become a skilled cameraman in the late 1960s, whose solid photography has since supported a plethora of hugely successful US television series, beginning with Kobra, Take Over . In his early years as head cameraman (until 1970) he was behind the camera in a few A-cinema productions such as Darling, let you divorce and Das Fotomodell with his two compatriots Catherine Deneuve and Anouk Aimée in the leading female roles. Immediately afterwards he took a picture of Kampf den Talaren und Don't you think we're crying, too, two little-noticed, late side works by the old master Stanley Kramer .

After 1972, Michel Hugo only sporadically photographed cinema films. Hugo, a long-time worker, was behind the camera for up to six films a year. Since the early 1980s, he has almost exclusively photographed television series, including Hart but cordially , The Denver Clan and Melrose Place . He spent the last years of his life in Las Vegas, where he taught everything about the work of a cameraman in the Film Department of the University of Nevada .

Filmography (selection)

As chief cameraman for television, unless otherwise stated

• 1967: Cobra, Take Over (series)
• 1968: Head (cinema)
• 1968: The Photo Model ( Model Shop ) (Cinema)
• 1968: Darling, get a divorce (cinema)
• 1969: Number One (cinema)
• 1969: The Phynx (cinema)
• 1969: Cover Me Babe (cinema)
• 1969: Battle of the Gowns ( RPM ) (cinema)
• 1970: Fools (cinema)
• 1970: Don't You Think We're Howling ( Bless the Beasts and Children ) (Cinema)
• 1971: The Forgotten Men
• 1971: Thief
• 1971: Killer satellites ( Earth II )
• 1971: The Night Stalker
• 1971: My Heart Needs Love ( One is a Lonely Number ) (Kino)
• 1972: Lapin 360 (cinema)
• 1972: Trouble Man (cinema)
• 1972: The Trail of the Black Beast ( They Only Kill Their Masters ) (Cinema)
• 1972: The mountain knows no mercy ( Climb an Angry Mountain )
• 1973: Shorts / Skins
• 1973: Mrs. Sundance
• 1973: The Morning After
• 1974: Death Stalk
• 1974: Journey From Darkness
• 1974: Air Pirates ( Sky Heist )
• 1974: Feuerkäfer ( Bug ) (cinema)
• 1975: The Seduction ( Ode to Billy Joe ) (Cinema)
• 1976: The streets of San Francisco (series)
• 1977: The Manitou ( The Manitou ) (Kino)
• 1977: The Awakening Land (three-part series)
• 1977: The Bastard
• 1978: Terror from the Clouds - Killer Bees 2 ( Terror out of the Sky )
• 1978: The Psycho Farm ( The Cracker Factory )
• 1978: Jennifer: A Woman's Story
• 1979: Gorp (cinema)
• 1979: Duel am Wind River ( The Mountain Men ) (Cinema)
• 1979: Octagon ( The Octagon ) (cinema)
• 1980, raged when the terror Night ( The Night the City Screamed )
• 1980: Dial M for Murder ( Dial M for Murder )
• 1981: Pandemonium (cinema)
• 1981: The Rules of Marriage
• 1983: Hard but warm (series)
• 1983: The Police Chiefs of Delano ( Chiefs ) (three-part)
• 1980–1989: The Denver Clan (series)
• 1989: Honeymoon in Hawaii ( Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon )
• 1989: High Desert Kill
• 1992–1995: Melrose Place (series)
• 2008: Primo (cinema)

Web links

• Michel Hugo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Obituary in Variety

Remarks

1. ↑ according to the film archive Kay Less