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Andrew Laszlo in 1988
Andrew Laszlo, ASC (born as András László) (born 12 January 1926; age 98) is a former cinematographer of Hungarian origin whose credits include Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. He earned an Emmy Award nomination for Best Cinematography For Entertainment Programming for the 1973 made-for-TV drama The Man Without a Country. He earned a second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or a Special for segment #4 of the 1980 mini-series Shogun, on which actors John Rhys-Davies and W. Morgan Sheppard, production designer Joe Jennings, and set decorator Tom Pedigo also worked.
Laszlo was working as an apprentice cameraman at a film studio in Budapest when World War II began and he and his family were sent to a Nazi concentration camp. He was the only member of his family to survive the ordeal. In 1947, he moved to the United States of America. While working as a freelance still photographer and photography laboratory assistant in 1950, he was drafted into the US Army Signal Corps, serving as a combat photographer in Korea for two years. Following his military service, he began working in movie and television production, becoming a camera operator and later occasional director of photography on the ABC drama series Naked City, which ran from 1958 to 1962. The series was narrated by Lawrence Dobkin and featured directors Ralph Senensky and Robert Gist and writers Barry Trivers, Shimon Wincelberg and Gilbert Ralston. Laszlo has been an active member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 1965.
Laszlo's other early cinematographic work includes Francis Ford Coppola's 1966 film You're a Big Boy Now (starring Michael Dunn), the 1968 comic film The Night They Raided Minsky's (featuring Richard Libertini) for William Friedkin, the 1970 TV movie Black Water Gold (starring Ricardo Montalban and France Nuyen), the Neil Simon comedy The Out of Towners (featuring Paul Dooley, Graham Jarvis, and Richard Libertini), the 1971 comedy Jennifer On My Mind (starring Steve Vinovich and edited by John W. Wheeler), and the 1973 NBC made-for-TV remake of Miracle on 34th Street (featuring James Gregory and Jason Wingreen). He later worked on the Alexander Singer-directed TV movie Hunters of the Reef (starring Stephen Macht and William Windom), the mini-series The Dain Curse (which starred Star Trek: The Next Generation performers Jean Simmons and Brent Spiner), and film Somebody Killed Her Husband (starring John Glover), all of which were released in 1978.
For director Walter Hill, Laszlo was the cinematographer on The Warriors (1979), Southern Comfort (1981, starring Keith Carradine), and Streets of Fire (1984, featuring Ed Begley, Jr.). The latter two films featured production designs by Star Trek: The Motion Picture art director John Vallone. In addition, Laszlo directed photography on the first Rambo film, First Blood (1982), the 1986 Poltergeist sequel, Poltergeist II: The Other Side, and two films starring Star Trek: Voyager regulars: 1985's Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins with Kate Mulgrew (as well as Jeff Allin, Joel Grey, Patrick Kilpatrick, and Michael Pataki) and 1987's Innerspace with Robert Picardo (as well as Henry Gibson, Andrea Martin, Richard McGonagle, Dick Miller, William Schallert, Mark L. Taylor, and Kenneth Tobey).
Laszlo's other credits include: the 1980 TV movie Top of the Hill (starring Adrienne Barbeau and Gary Lockwood), the 1981 TV movie Thin Ice (featuring Daniel Hugh Kelly and Dwight Schultz), the 1981 horror film The Funhouse (featuring Kevin Conway), and the 1982 Mike Hammer film I, the Jury (starring Paul Sorvino). He most recently worked on the 1990 Bill Cosby comedy Ghost Dad (featuring Dakin Matthews and Eric Menyuk) and the 1992 Disney feature Newsies (starring Marc Lawrence and featuring Frank Novak and Kevin Tighe).
Laszlo has since retired from cinematography and has become an author, writing novels as well as books on cinematography. He has also taught cinematography at various universities. Although he no longer works on films, he stated in 2004 that, if the right project were to come along, he would consider working on it. [1]
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- Andrew Laszlo at the Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers