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Walter Lassally (1926-2017)

Alias:
Walter Lassaly

Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany

Born:
December 18, 1926

Died:
October 23, 2017

Biography from TheMovieDB

Walter Lassally (December 18, 1926 – October 23, 2017) was a German-born British cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1965 for the film Zorba the Greek.

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Film Performances

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Film Production

Additional Photography:
1956  Together

Camera Operator:
1956  Together
1961  Let My People Go
1974  Wsp

Cinematography:
1951  Festival
1951  Forward a Century
1955  Brighton Story
1955  Green and Pleasant Land
1956  Together
1961  Let My People Go
1971  Can Horses Sing?
1974  Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
1974  Wsp
2023  The Way It Was: Paris Restaurants in the 1970s

Director of Photography:
1951  Every Five Minutes
1951  Festival
1951  Forward a Century
1952  Three Installations
1952  Wakefield Express
1953  Power Signal Lineman
1953  Sunday by the Sea
1953  The Pleasure Garden
1954  Another Sky
1954  Bow Bells
1954  Simon
1954  The Passing Stranger
1954  Thursday's Children
1955  Brighton Story
1955  Foot and Mouth
1955  Green and Pleasant Land
1955  Henry
1956  A Girl in Black
1956  Momma Don't Allow
1956  Together
1957  Bernard Shaw
1957  Every Day Except Christmas
1958  A Matter of Dignity
1958  Alone with the Monsters
1959  Jaago Hua Savera
1959  Refuge England
1959  We Are the Lambeth Boys
1960  Beat Girl
1960  Madalena
1960  Midsummer Music
1960  Our Last Spring
1961  A Taste of Honey
1961  Alice in the Navy
1961  Let My People Go
1961  Lisa and the Other Woman
1962  Electra
1962  The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1963  Tom Jones
1964  Psyche 59
1964  The Peaches
1964  Zorba the Greek
1967  In the Labyrinth
1967  Open Letter
1967  The Day the Fish Came Out
1968  Assignment Skybolt
1968  Joanna
1968  Oedipus the King
1969  3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969  The Adding Machine
1970  Something For Everyone
1970  Twinky
1971  Can Horses Sing?
1972  Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
1972  Savages
1972  To Kill a Clown
1973  Happy Mother's Day, Love George
1973  Malachi's Cove
1973  Visions of Eight
1974  Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
1974  Wsp
1975  Autobiography of a Princess
1975  The Wild Party
1976  Attempted Flight
1976  The Clown
1978  Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1978  The Great Bank Hoax
1978  The Woman Across the Way
1979  Something Short of Paradise
1979  Too Far to Go
1980  Gauguin the Savage
1980  The Blood of Hussain
1980  The Pilot
1980  The Price of Survival
1981  Angels of Iron
1981  Memoirs of a Survivor
1981  The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1982  The Mysterious Stranger
1982  Tuxedo Warrior
1983  Heat and Dust
1983  Private School
1984  Children in the Crossfire
1984  The Bengal Lancers!
1984  The Bostonians
1985  Stone Pillow
1986  Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
1986  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1987  Indian Summer
1988  The Deceivers
1988  The Perfect Murder
1991  Die Erbschaft
1991  The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1992  The Man Upstairs
1994  The Little Dolphins
1996  Silent Film
2001  Acı Gönül
2023  The Way It Was: Paris Restaurants in the 1970s
????  Bilocation

Focus Puller:
1950  Night and the City
1951  Every Five Minutes
1951  Festival
1951  Forward a Century
1952  Three Installations
1952  Wakefield Express
1953  Power Signal Lineman
1953  Sunday by the Sea
1953  The Pleasure Garden
1954  Another Sky
1954  Bow Bells
1954  Simon
1954  The Passing Stranger
1954  Thursday's Children
1955  Brighton Story
1955  Foot and Mouth
1955  Green and Pleasant Land
1955  Henry
1956  A Girl in Black
1956  Momma Don't Allow
1956  Together
1957  Bernard Shaw
1957  Every Day Except Christmas
1958  A Matter of Dignity
1958  Alone with the Monsters
1959  Jaago Hua Savera
1959  Refuge England
1959  We Are the Lambeth Boys
1960  Beat Girl
1960  Madalena
1960  Midsummer Music
1960  Our Last Spring
1961  A Taste of Honey
1961  Alice in the Navy
1961  Let My People Go
1961  Lisa and the Other Woman
1962  Electra
1962  The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1963  Tom Jones
1964  Psyche 59
1964  The Peaches
1964  Zorba the Greek
1967  In the Labyrinth
1967  Open Letter
1967  The Day the Fish Came Out
1968  Assignment Skybolt
1968  Joanna
1968  Oedipus the King
1969  3 Into 2 Won't Go
1969  The Adding Machine
1970  Something For Everyone
1970  Twinky
1971  Can Horses Sing?
1972  Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
1972  Savages
1972  To Kill a Clown
1973  Happy Mother's Day, Love George
1973  Malachi's Cove
1973  Visions of Eight
1974  Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
1974  Wsp
1975  Autobiography of a Princess
1975  The Wild Party
1976  Attempted Flight
1976  The Clown
1978  Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures
1978  The Great Bank Hoax
1978  The Woman Across the Way
1979  Something Short of Paradise
1979  Too Far to Go
1980  Gauguin the Savage
1980  The Blood of Hussain
1980  The Pilot
1980  The Price of Survival
1981  Angels of Iron
1981  Memoirs of a Survivor
1981  The Private History of a Campaign That Failed
1982  The Mysterious Stranger
1982  Tuxedo Warrior
1983  Heat and Dust
1983  Private School
1984  Children in the Crossfire
1984  The Bengal Lancers!
1984  The Bostonians
1985  Stone Pillow
1986  Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
1986  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1987  Indian Summer
1988  The Deceivers
1988  The Perfect Murder
1991  Die Erbschaft
1991  The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1992  The Man Upstairs
1994  The Little Dolphins
1996  Silent Film
2001  Acı Gönül
2023  The Way It Was: Paris Restaurants in the 1970s
????  Bilocation

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