Biography

Crayton Smith(1942-2017)

Script and Continuity Department
Talent Agent
Actor

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NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY: LASZLO AND VILMOS. The lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond and their impact on American cinema. As film students in Hungary, Laszlo and Vilmos took to the war-torn streets of Budapest to shoot footage of the Russian invasion, and subsequently volunteered to smuggle it out of the country. Barely escaping with their lives, the two friends fled to America and settled in Hollywood, eventually saving enough money to buy their own 16mm camera.

After working on a string of low-budget horror and biker movies, both men soon rose to prominence in the late 60's and 70's, shooting the films that defined what came to be known as the American New Wave: Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Deliverance, Paper Moon, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and more. Working with directors including Robert Altman, Bob Rafelson, Peter Bogdanovich, and Martin Scorsese, they helped create a new American film aesthetic, and pioneered innovative, fearless ways to tell stories.

Â“When it comes to Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, it's clear that the American New Wave of the late 1960's and early '70s wouldn't have flowered as it did without them." Â– Leonard Maltin

Told through interviews with Laszlo (who died in 2007) and Vilmos, as well as directors including Rafelson, Bogdanovich, John Boorman, Graeme Clifford, Richard Donner, William Richert, Mark Rydell, composer John Williams and actors such as Jon Voight, Peter Fonda, Sandra Bullock, Karen Black, Dennis Hopper and Sharon Stone, NO SUBTITLES NECESSARY is an intimate portrait of two giants of modern imagemaking and their deep bond of brotherhood that transcended every imaginable boundary. Two heroes. One road.

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Crayton Smith was born on 12 December 1942 in Lima, Peru. He was a talent agent and actor, known for La Horde sauvage (1969), Les bérets verts (1968) and You've Got to Be Smart (1967). He died on 17 July 2017 in Ventura, California, USA.

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Known for

La Horde sauvage (1969)

La Horde sauvage

7.9

Movie

Script and Continuity Department

1969

Les bérets verts (1968)

Les bérets verts

5.6

Movie

Script and Continuity Department

1968

Jeff Bantam in You've Got to Be Smart (1967)

You've Got to Be Smart

4.6

Movie

Mailboy

1967

Barry Coe, Peggy Ann Garner, and Roger Perry in The Cat (1966)

5.4

Movie

Actor

1966

Credits

Script and Continuity Department

La Horde sauvage
7.9
- script supervisor
- 1969
Les bérets verts
5.6
- script supervisor
- 1968
Les tueurs sont lâchés
6.0
- script supervisor trainee (uncredited)
- 1968
L'Amant de novembre
6.8
- script supervisor trainee (uncredited)
- 1968
Seule dans la nuit
7.7
- script supervisor trainee (uncredited)
- 1967
Camelot
6.6
- script supervisor trainee (uncredited)
- 1967
Bonnie et Clyde
7.7
- script supervisor: second unit (uncredited)
- 1967

Actor

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No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

Personal details

Born
- December 12, 1942
- Lima, Peru
Died
- July 17, 2017
- Ventura, California, USA(leukemia)

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