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Walter Lassally

Cinematographer | Camera and Electrical Department | Director

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Member of the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC).

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in Berlin, Germany
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2001 Crescent Heart
 
1997 Silent Film (short)
 
1995 Nature Perfected: The Story of the Garden (TV mini-series)
 
1993 The Little Dolphins
 
1992 The Man Upstairs (TV movie) (director of photography)
 
1991 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
 
1991 Die Erbschaft (TV movie)
 
1990 Diary of a Madman
 
1989 Fragments of Isabella
 
1988 The Deceivers
 
1988 The Perfect Murder
 
1988 Kamilla og tyven
 
1987 Indian Summer
 
1987 Après le vent des sables
 
1986 Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (TV movie) (director of photography)
 
1984-1986 American Playhouse (TV series)
– Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1986)
– Pudd'nhead Wilson (1984)
 
1985 Stone Pillow (TV movie)
 
1984 Children in the Crossfire (TV movie)
 
1984 The Bostonians
 
1984 The Case of Marcel Duchamp
 
1983 Private School
 
1983 Heat and Dust
 
1982 The Mysterious Stranger (TV movie)
 
1982 Tuxedo Warrior
 
1981 CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (TV series)
– Mystery at Fire Island (1981)
 
1981 Memoirs of a Survivor
 
1981 Angels of Iron
 
1981 The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (TV movie)
 
1980 Great Performances (TV series)
– Life on the Mississippi (1980) (director of photography)
 
1980 The Blood of Hussain
 
1980 Gauguin the Savage (TV movie) (as Walter Lassaly)
 
1980 Der Preis fürs Überleben
 
1980 The Commanding Sea (TV series documentary)
 
1980 The Pilot
 
1979 Something Short of Paradise
 
1979 Too Far to Go (TV movie) (director of photography)
 
1979 In the Labyrinth (short)
 
1978 The Great Bank Hoax
 
1978 The Woman Across the Way
 
1978 Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (TV movie)
 
1976 Attempted Flight
 
1976 Pleasantville
 
1976 The Clown
 
1975 Autobiography of a Princess
 
1975 The Wild Party
 
1974 Malachi's Cove
 
1973 Happy Mother's Day, Love George
 
1973 Visions of Eight (documentary) (segment "Highest, The")
 
1972 Van der Valk und das Mädchen (TV movie)
 
1972 To Kill a Clown
 
1972 Savages
 
1972 Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (TV documentary)
 
1971 Can Horses Sing? (documentary short)
 
1970 Something for Everyone
 
1970 Lola (director of photography)
 
1969 The Adding Machine
 
1969 Three Into Two Won't Go
 
1968 Joanna
 
1968 Oedipus the King
 
1968 Assignment Skybolt
 
1968 About the White Bus (documentary) (uncredited)
 
1967 The Day the Fish Came Out
 
1967 The Greeks (TV documentary short)
 
1967 Open Letter
 
1965 The Peaches (short)
 
1965 Dan (TV movie)
 
1964 Zorba the Greek (director of photography)
 
1964 Psyche 59 (director of photography)
 
1963 Tom Jones (director of photography)
 
1962 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (director of photography)
 
1962/I Electra
 
1961 A Taste of Honey
 
1961 Together
 
1961 Alice in the Navy
 
1961 I Liza kai i alli
 
1961 Let My People Go (documentary short)
 
1960 Madalena
 
1960 Wild for Kicks
 
1960 Our Last Spring
 
1959 Playhouse 90 (TV series)
– Dark as the Night (1959) (director of photography)
 
1959 The Day Shall Dawn
 
1959 Refuge England (short)
 
1958 British Art and Artists (TV series documentary)
– A Sculptor's Landscape (1958)
 
1958 A Matter of Dignity
 
1958 We Are the Lambeth Boys (documentary)
 
1957 Every Day Except Christmas (documentary short)
 
1956 A Girl in Black
 
1955 Thursday's Children (documentary short)
 
1955 Foot and Mouth (short)
 
1955 Momma Don't Allow (documentary short)
 
1955 Henry (short)
 
1955 The Children Upstairs (documentary short)
 
1955 Green and Pleasant Land (short)
 
1955 A Hundred Thousand Children (short)
 
1954 Passing Stranger
 
1954 Simon (short)
 
1954 Another Sky
 
1953 Bow Bells (documentary short)
 
1953 The Pleasure Garden (short)
 
1952 Wakefield Express (documentary short)
 
1952 Three Installations (short)
 
1951 Sunday by the Sea (documentary short)
 
1951 Every Five Minutes (short)
 
Show ShowCamera and Electrical Department (12 titles)
1986 Arena (TV series documentary) (archive film cameraman - 1 episode)
– Henry Moore (1986) (archive film cameraman)
 
1973 Visions of Eight (documentary) (camera operator)
 
1969 The Olympics in Mexico (documentary) (photographer)
 
1953 Strange Stories (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
1950 Night and the City (focus puller: second unit - uncredited)
 
1949 Saints and Sinners (assistant camera: second unit - uncredited)
 
1949 Women of Dolwyn (assistant camera: second unit - uncredited)
 
1948 This Was a Woman (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
1948 What a Life! (short) (camera assistant - uncredited)
 
1947 Dancing with Crime (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
1947 I Became a Criminal (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
1947 Things Happen at Night (assistant camera - uncredited)
 
Show ShowDirector (3 titles)
1995 Nature Perfected: The Story of the Garden (TV mini-series)
 
1967 The Greeks (TV documentary short) (co-director)
 
1965 Dan (TV movie) (co-director)
 
Show ShowEditorial Department (2 titles)
1956 House of Blackmail (assistant editor - uncredited)
 
1953 Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (assistant editor - uncredited)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
2009 The World at Night (short) (technical advisor) (completed)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2007 Modern Greeks: Michael Cacoyannis (TV documentary) (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (8 titles)
2008 Masterclass (documentary)
Lead
 
2008 My Life and Times: Michael Cacoyannis (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 British Film Forever (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
– Hardship, Humour and Heroes: The Story of British Realism (2007) … Himself
 
2006 Small Is Beautiful: The Story of the Free Cinema Films Told by Their Makers (video documentary)
Himself
 
2005 Walter the Greek (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Cast & Crew (TV series documentary)
Himself
– The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (2002) … Himself
 
1984 The Wandering Company (TV documentary)
Cinematographer
 
1978 How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 

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Masterclass -- A year in the life of Walter Lassally, master cinematographer of 100 famous movies, including Zorba the Greek, for which he won an Oscar, meets W. Lambert Scot Gardiner, a university professor of communications and psychology. They have a conversation that becomes a master class in their respective fields while lunching in a seaside taverna in Greece, set against Walter giving a MasterClass at the Maine Media Workshop. This Documentary lets us into their trade secrets, but also reveal aspects of their personalities and their passion for cinema and for life. The cinematic experience they provide is like a private and privileged visit with two highly accomplished professionals in their golden years. Produced by Byron Ayanoglu Music by Guthrie Lowe Filmed on the island of Crete, Greece and at The Maine Media Workshop. Zorba the Greek -- Trailer for this classic Academy Award winning drama
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Member of the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC). See more »

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