Award-winning Cinematographer Kent L. Wakeford, best known for his work on Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets” and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” has died at the age of 92.
On Oct. 10, the director of photography died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s Wasserman Campus. His film career began after a brief stint as a cameraman for the Douglas Aircraft Company and two years of service as motion picture cameraman in the U.S. Army’s Signal Corp.
Upon moving to Los Angeles, he took up a freelance job working the reality show “Danger is My Business.” His first credit on a major film came in 1973 when he served as the director of photography on “Mean Streets,” which he earned praise for his handheld camera that soon became popular throughout the film industry.
The Library of Congress selected “Mean Streets” to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry in...
On Oct. 10, the director of photography died at the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s Wasserman Campus. His film career began after a brief stint as a cameraman for the Douglas Aircraft Company and two years of service as motion picture cameraman in the U.S. Army’s Signal Corp.
Upon moving to Los Angeles, he took up a freelance job working the reality show “Danger is My Business.” His first credit on a major film came in 1973 when he served as the director of photography on “Mean Streets,” which he earned praise for his handheld camera that soon became popular throughout the film industry.
The Library of Congress selected “Mean Streets” to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry in...
- 10/14/2020
- by Eli Countryman
- Variety Film + TV
Kent L. Wakeford, a cinematographer who served as Martin Scorsese’s director of photography on the groundbreaking 1973 film Mean Streets and the following year’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died Oct. 10 at the Motion Picture Film & Television Fund’s Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills, CA. He was 92.
His death was announced by his family, who noted that he died peacefully. No cause of death was specified.
Wakeford began his career in the 1950s, working as a freelance cameraman for the 1958 TV series Danger Is My Business. Continuing his work in TV and film, Wakeford made his major impact when Scorsese hired him on Mean Streets, the gritty, groundbreaking drama about small-time hoods in Lower Manhattan’s Little Italy neighborhood, starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel.
Wakeford teamed with the director the following year for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the chronicle of a recently widowed wannabe singer, played by an Oscar-winning Ellen Burstyn,...
His death was announced by his family, who noted that he died peacefully. No cause of death was specified.
Wakeford began his career in the 1950s, working as a freelance cameraman for the 1958 TV series Danger Is My Business. Continuing his work in TV and film, Wakeford made his major impact when Scorsese hired him on Mean Streets, the gritty, groundbreaking drama about small-time hoods in Lower Manhattan’s Little Italy neighborhood, starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel.
Wakeford teamed with the director the following year for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, the chronicle of a recently widowed wannabe singer, played by an Oscar-winning Ellen Burstyn,...
- 10/14/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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- 5/30/2014
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
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