Richard Moore (cinematographer)
Richard Moore ( born October 4, 1925 in Jacksonville, Illinois; † August 16, 2009 in Palm Springs, California ) was an American cinematographer and film director.
Life
Moore, a graduate of the University of Southern California, founded in 1953 with Robert Gottschalk the company Panavision. Both worked in a camera store and had developed for tests in underwater photography favorable anamorphic widescreen projection lenses. At this time the cinema needed such devices in order to show the Cinemascope films in the correct format can. 1960 both received the Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. At the beginning of the 1970s the company developed a hand-held camera, the sound could also be included.
At the beginning of the 1960s, Moore left the company to work even with the devices of movies and has been in several well-known films cameraman, so for example, with iron fists, That was Roy Bean and Annie. In 1978 he also directed; the film The Circle of Iron, however, was not a great success.
2004 Moore was awarded the President's Award of the American Society of Cinematographers.