Walter Lassally

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BIRTHDAY

December 18, 1926

Berlin, Germany

RECENT CREDITS

A Girl in Black (FILM) Jan. 1, 1999

Zorba the Greek (FILM) Jan. 1, 1999

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (FILM) May. 10, 1991

The Perfect Murder (FILM) Mar. 2, 1990

The Deceivers (FILM) Sep. 9, 1988

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BIOGRAPHY

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Award-winning cinematographer who found his stride with the emergence of the British Free Cinema movement. Like many of the directors with whom he worked--Lindsay Anderson (on the acclaimed documentary shorts "Wakefield Express" 1952 and "Thursday's Children" 1953, among others) Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson--Lassally contributed to "alternative" journals such as "Film" in the 1950s, proving an articulate champion of personal, low-budget filmmaking. He has been involved in a series of independent production companies, and worked with Greek director Michael Cacoyannis on half a dozen films including "A Girl in Black" (1956), "Electra" (1961) and "Zorba the Greek" (1964), the latter of which won him an Oscar. Lassally has done likewise on a number of Ismail Merchant/James Ivory features, including "Savages" (1972), "Heat and Dust" (1983) and "The Bostonians" (1984). He has continued bringing his beautifully clear and crisp style and his commitment to small-scale, independent international filmmaking, lensing such films in recent years as "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1991).

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