Gilbert Taylor, 'star wars' cinematographer dies @99

Gilbert Taylor was a master
of black and white and a master of
different universes.
Taylor, the influential "Star Wars"
cinematographer who worked on a
number of stellar films, died Aug. 23 at
the age of 99, according to the British
Society of Cinematographers.
Dee Taylor, his wife, told the BBC News
that her husband died at their home on
the Isle of Wight off the south coast of
England.
Taylor, a founding member of the
cinematographers' society, entered the
British film industry as a cameraman's
assistant in the 1920s when he was still a
teenager.
He had dozens of credits to his name
and worked with a wide range of
directors, including George Lucas,
Alfred Hitchcock and Roman Polanski.
He was the director of photography on
several distinctive black-and-white
classics including Stanley Kubrick's "Dr.
Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love the Bomb" and
Richard Lester's Beatlemania chronicle
"A Hard Day's Night." He also worked
on television series including the very
popular "The Avengers."
During World War II, he was active with
the Royal Air Force filming nighttime
bombing raids over Germany.
He was born in Bushey Heath, a small
town 20 miles north of London.