Stevan Larner

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Stevan deFreest Larner (born February 6, 1930 in New York City , † November 6, 2005 in Solvang , California ) was an American cameraman .

Life

After graduating from Yale University , Stevan Larner was drafted into the Korean War for military intelligence . He then studied at the French film school Institut des hautes études cinématographiques , after which he was drawn to the Algerian war as a documentary filmmaker and news reporter . On his return he taught at the American Film Institute and made films such as The Buddy Holly Story , Roots and Torches in the Storm .

In 1997, Larner retired from Hollywood with his wife and bought a winery in the Santa Ynez Valley , where he made his own wine from then on.

On November 6, 2005, Stevan Larner died as a result of an accident on his winery. He was survived by his wife and their daughter and son.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1973: Badlands (Badlands)
  • 1973: crooks on the wrong track (crooks on the wrong track)
  • 1974: Footprints in the Sand (The Godchild)
  • 1976: Pipe Dreams
  • 1977: Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
  • 1977: Roots
  • 1978: The Buddy Holly Story (The Buddy Holly Story)
  • 1978: Long Journey Back
  • 1978: Just before the holidays (Almost Summer)
  • 1978: U-boat in distress (Gray Lady Down)
  • 1979: Reckoning at midnight (High Midnight)
  • 1979: Golden Girl (Goldengirl)
  • 1980: Hard times for Guardian Angels (Fighting Back)
  • 1980: A Rumor of War through the Green Hell
  • 1980: Madness without a handicap (Caddyshack)
  • 1981: The Story of James Thornwell (Thornwell)
  • 1981: Decision in Need (The Choice)
  • 1981: Death on Campus (Kent State)
  • 1982: A sample of the killer (Rehearsal for Murder)
  • 1982: Kate Bennett, reporter (This Is Kate Bennett ...)
  • 1982: World War III
  • 1983: Eerie Shadow Lights (Twilight Zone: The Movie)
  • 1984: The Mystic Warrior
  • 1984: I'm not a murderer (Fatal Vision)
  • 1984: The fight against hopelessness (Anatomy of an Illness)
  • 1985: Louise Jamison's Many Deaths (Guilty Conscience)
  • 1985: Torches in the Storm (North and South) (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1987: Fall into Darkness - A Mother's Story (Convicted: A Mother's Story)
  • 1988: The Brady Scandal (Inherit the Wind)
  • 1988-1990: The Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast) (TV series, 33 episodes)
  • 1991: The Stranger From The Subway (... And Then She Was Gone)
  • 1991: Uncertain love (Crazy from the Heart)
  • 1992: The Fourth Commandment (Honor Thy Mother)
  • 1993: They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping
  • 1994: Hopeless (The Beans of Egypt, Maine)
  • 1995: Deadly Family Secrets
  • 1996: Bloody Power - So Help Us Murder (A Season in Purgatory)
  • 1997: Heartless - Remembering My Killer (Heartless)
  • 2000: Death Never Comes Alone (Partners in Crime)

Awards

Independent Spirit Awards
  • 1995 : Nomination for the best camera for hopeless

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Stevan Larner  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on variety.com of November 15, 2005 (English), accessed April 7, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
  2. Blake Gray: Santa Barbara County incubates the next generation of winemakers on sfgate.com November 10, 2005, accessed April 7, 2012