Biography for
László Kovács (I) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

14 May 1933, Cece, Hungary

Date of Death

22 July 2007, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Spouse

Audrey

(1984 - 22 July 2007) (his death) 2 children

Trivia

Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 2002.

2002 recipient of the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award.

Entered the U.S. as political refugees in 1957.

Member of the ASC's board of directors and the ASC Education Committee.

Recipient of two lifetime achievement awards for cinematography: one at the Hawaii International Film Festival and one at CamerImage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, in Torun, Poland, in 1998.

Smuggled a documentary he'd created with friend, Vilmos Zsigmond, of a Hungarian revolt against Communist troops into Austria, having carried 30,000 feet of film with them.

Two daughters: Julianna and Nadia.

Children: daughters Julianna and Nadia.

Actor Dennis Hopper asked Kovacs to film "Easy Rider". At first, Kovacs turned it down, but Hopper was persistent. It was filmed entirely on location, during a 12-week trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans. Later, Kovacs said that they knew the film was special, but didn't realize it would win awards and become an influential, iconic movie.

He was born on a farm in Hungary, and studied film in Budapest during the 1950s.