Billy Williams, a well-known British photographer, shared the Oscar Gandhi And nominated for his job as a starring Glenda Jackson A woman in love Henry Fonda's last movie, On the Golden Pondalready dead. He is 96 years old.

Williams' death British photographer Magazine. No details about the cause of death were provided.

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Williams also served as director of photography for John Milius The wind and the lion (1975), Stuart Rosenberg Damn sailing (1976), Martin Brest Going into style (1979) and Peter Yates Suspect (1987).

London native hires Ken Russell A billion dollar brain (1967), Michael Caine's third film, starring Harry Palmer's spy series, who reunited with a demanding director A woman in love (1969) and rainbow (1989).

"I'll be working with Ken Russell soon, and he'll likely ask for something that has never been done before and that can't be done without something like this," he said in a comprehensive Story interview in 2003. "You have to find a way. It's a huge challenge."

After filming the Iraq scene for William Friedkin Exorcist (1973) and The wind and the lion Under cruel conditions SpainWilliams found himself again at Richard Attenborough Gandhi (1982), many sequences were photographed at the location of India.

Williams recalled in 2020: "Obviously it's obviously very hot and dusty and traveling isn't easy. It's a tough timeline. We're leaving at 7am, returning at 8am and watching the rush on the mobile protector. But it's a very meaningful film and contented with people who have really changed history."

After studying hours of news footage of activist Mahatma Gandhi, Williams had to leave the delivery after six weeks of treatment in the UK to perform a slip. He suggested that Ronnie Taylor replace him (Taylor) once worked as a camera operator with Attenborough oh! What a lovely war and 1972 Young Winston Williams on Wild and lions).

The first scene shot by Taylor was the recreation of Gandhi's 1948 funeral, which featured 400,000.

Williams returned four weeks after healing, but had the same problem again, so he left and Taylor returned. He said it was the only two times he left the movie.

Taylor told British photographer Magazine. “Richard Attenborough decided that if there were any nominations, Billy and I should share the credits.”

Gandhiearned about $22 million and was nominated for 35mm deformation shooting, received 11 Academy Awards and won 8 trophies, including Best Picture, Best Director, Ben Kingsley's Best Actor and Best Photography (Williams accepted the award on Oscar Night, Taylor was unable to go to work, champion).

After discovering that he was hired as Gandhi, Williams set out for New Hampshire On the Golden Pond (1981), starring Fonda, his daughters Jane and Katharine Hepburn. Williams had an idea when director Mark Rydell didn't know how to shoot a birthday party for Fonda's Norman Thayer.

He advised them to "put the camera on the track and start with the kitchen area." “Kate (Kate) burned these 80 candles, so we’ve made such a lovely warm light glow on her face, we tracked her for a while and then let it go over her, so we followed her back and we exposed the dining area with the others.

"The cameras tilt, they blow out the candles, it goes black, it's cut, it works very well. We didn't do a single cut."

Williams was born on June 3, 1929 in Walthamsto, London. His father, Billy Sr., was a brave photographer who filmed the surrender of the German fleet in Scapa Flow in Scotland in 1919 and then filmed a documentary.

During World War II, Williams left school at the age of 14 and became his father's assistant. "He was a very difficult task manager and everything had to be done right," he recalled. "Of course, the camera had to be taken care of like a baby. It was so precious."

In 1946, he traveled with his father to Kenya and Uganda, who was filmed for the colonial film department.

Williams worked as a photographer for two years in the RAF and then served as an assistant photographer for British transport films, shooting documentaries about the docks, railways and Queen Mary. He saved his arriflex camera, advertised, and eventually made his debut on the black and white "Sound Effect Comedy" San Ferri Ann (1965).

The older photographer Otto Heller (Ladykillers,,,,, Alfie) Refused to participate in medical examinations A billion dollar brainThis will be filmed in Finland, with producer Harry Saltzman turning to Williams, who advertised Russell.

Alan Bates and Oliver Reed in A woman in loveWilliams and Russell decided to "take a very strong color effect, like the color of Firelight, which is very orange." Conversation with the photographer. “I filtered all the lights the same color as the fire and had a flashing effect.”

Williams' resume also includes Ted Kotcheff Two gentlemen share (1969), John Schlesinger Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), Michael Anderson Pope Joan (1972), X, Y and Zee (1972), Boy blue (1973), Silent companion (1978), Eagle Wings (1979), Boardwalk (1979), Your Mightiness (1982), Yates Eleni (1985), Manhattan Project (1986), Stella (1990) and Floating wood (1997), his last film.

Williams is a four-time BAFTA nominee, serving as president of the British Academy of Photographers from 1975-77 and began teaching photography at the National Film Theatre in 1978.

He received Camerimage's Lifetime Achievement Honor in 2000, received the British Institute of Photographers in 2006, and was an official of the Order of the British Empire in 2009.

"I feel like I'm lucky enough to be a filmmaking career, and it's the most satisfying, meaningful, exciting job I can imagine," he said.