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Gordon Willis

1931 - 2014

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Gordon Hugh Willis Jr., ASC (May 28, 1931 – May 18, 2014) was an American cinematographer and film director. He is best known for his photographic work on eight Woody Allen films (including Annie Hall and Manhattan), six Alan J. Pakula films (including All the President's Men), four James Bridges films, and all three films from Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather series. Fellow cinematographer William A. Fraker called Willis's work a "milestone in visual storytelling", while one critic suggested that Willis "defined the cinematic look of the 1970s: sophisticated compositions in which bolts of light and black put the decade's moral ambiguities into stark relief". When the International Cinematographers Guild conducted a survey in 2003, they placed Willis among the ten most influential cinematographers in history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gordon Willis is the 4,560th most popular writer (up from 4,616th in 2019), the 6,807th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,230th in 2019) and the 515th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Gordon Willis ranks 4,560 out of 7,302. Before him are Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Alan Paton, Gudrun Pausewang, Sophia Parnok, Alfhild Agrell, and Iakob Tsurtaveli. After him are Nísia Floresta, Enric Valor i Vives, Anita Loos, Ladislav Mňačko, Sue Grafton, and Cecco Angiolieri.

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Among people born in 1931, Gordon Willis ranks 355. Before him are Kenny Burrell, Yoshiko Kuga, Lê Khả Phiêu, Jan Johansson, José Vicente, and Giuliana Minuzzo. After him are Adrienne Corri, John Baldessari, Anatoli Ilyin, Jean-Jacques Honorat, Mike Parkes, and Oleg Goncharenko. Among people deceased in 2014, Gordon Willis ranks 303. Before him are Åke Johansson, Marian Seldes, Carmelo Bossi, Régine Deforges, Jimmy T. Murakami, and James Shigeta. After him are Gérard Kango Ouédraogo, Dave Legeno, William Guarnere, Helen Johns, Urs Widmer, and Zbigniew Messner.

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Among people born in United States, Gordon Willis ranks 6,809 out of 20,380. Before him are John Finn (1952), Milman Parry (1902), Mike Starr (1950), Ruth Roman (1922), James Read (1953), and Patti Scialfa (1953). After him are Butler Lampson (1943), Barbara La Marr (1896), Anita Loos (1889), Edward Livingston (1764), Frank Havens (1924), and Sue Grafton (1940).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gordon Willis ranks 515. Before him are Mary Welsh Hemingway (1908), Tad Williams (1957), John Piper (1946), Mike Resnick (1942), Jane Bowles (1917), and James Agee (1909). After him are Anita Loos (1889), Sue Grafton (1940), Bill Lawrence (1968), Julia Ward Howe (1819), John D. MacDonald (1916), and Robert Richardson (1955).

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