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Bill Butler
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Biography
Wilmer Cable Butler (April 7, 1921 – April 5, 2023) was an American cinematographer who was known for his work on The Conversation (1974), Jaws (1975), and three Rocky sequels. Butler also completed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) after Haskell Wexler was fired from the production, and was subsequently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
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Jaws
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Child's Play
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Anaconda
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The Conversation
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Grease
Director of Photography
Hot Shots!
Director of Photography
Stripes
Director of Photography
Damien - Omen II
Director of Photography
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KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
When Nature Turns
Exploring the deep to the desert, and the skies to the suburbs, animals have long been cinema's most primal villains. This chain traces the evolution of the cre...
8 films
When the Children's Host Turns Predator
Casper Kelly's Buddy lets a singing orange unicorn hold his own cast hostage inside a deranged 1990s kids' show. This chain traces the lineage of the lethal ent...
5 films
The Art of Listening
From the whisper of a surveillance tape to the roar of a wartime beach, these eight films prove that sound is not just heard, it is felt. A chain of masterpiece...
7 films
Love in the Time of Espionage
From Berlin to Buenos Aires, a journey through films where romance and espionage entwine, revealing the human cost of secrets.
7 films
The Architecture of Obsession: Cinema of the Fixated Mind
Eight films in which a character's consuming fixation drives the narrative, examined through the directorial techniques that externalise interiority: subjective...
8 films
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