Welles DP Gary Graver dies
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Gary Graver, a cinematographer who worked with Orson Welles in the final years of the late director's life and fought for decades to see Welles' final film finished and released, has died.
Graver died at his home in Rancho Mirage on Thursday, according to Jillian Kesner-Graver, his wife of 25 years. He was 68.
He was Welles' director of photography on the films F Is for Fake, Filming Othello, It's All True, and The Other Side of the Wind, a movie Welles left unfinished at his death in 1985 and which Graver unsuccessfully tried to bring to the screen until his own death.
"He was a maverick cameraman who could do anything," said Curtis Harrington, a director who made the 2002 film Usher with Graver. "He also was very close to Orson, who recognized his wonderful qualities as a human being."
When Welles died, he left only about 40 minutes of edited footage of Wind, a film about a gifted director's artistic decline that he had worked on for 15 years. It starred fellow directors John Huston and Peter Bogdanovich.
Graver died at his home in Rancho Mirage on Thursday, according to Jillian Kesner-Graver, his wife of 25 years. He was 68.
He was Welles' director of photography on the films F Is for Fake, Filming Othello, It's All True, and The Other Side of the Wind, a movie Welles left unfinished at his death in 1985 and which Graver unsuccessfully tried to bring to the screen until his own death.
"He was a maverick cameraman who could do anything," said Curtis Harrington, a director who made the 2002 film Usher with Graver. "He also was very close to Orson, who recognized his wonderful qualities as a human being."
When Welles died, he left only about 40 minutes of edited footage of Wind, a film about a gifted director's artistic decline that he had worked on for 15 years. It starred fellow directors John Huston and Peter Bogdanovich.
- 11/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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