Self Taught Cinematographer

 

Cinematographer Bill Butler has passed at 101. You may not know this self-taught, Emmy winning, Oscar nominated legend, but you know the films he shot and assisted on. He lensed Jaws, Grease, Ice Castles, Rocky II, III, and IV, Stripes, and many more.  (He did additional and second unit work on One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, The Godfather, Deliverance, and The Conversation.) His TV work encompassed Raid on Entebbe, The Thorn Birds, and The Execution of Private Slovik. He was awarded the American Society of Cinematographers' Lifetime Achievement.