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Director, Cinematographer Born: September 21, 1941 in Philadelphia, PA Biography:After attending Johns Hopkins University and the University of Southern California film school, American cinematographer "Caleb Deschanel" was trained at the American Film Institute. He launched his professional career as assistant to veteran photographer "Gordon Willis", then he handled the second unit photography for "Francis Ford Coppola"'s "Apocalypse Now" (1978). One of his first major cinematography credits was for the Coppola-produced "The Black Stallion" (1979), undoubtedly one of the most beautifully-lensed films of the 1970s. Deschanel earned Oscar nominations for his work on "The Right Stuff" (1983) and "The Natural" (1984); he was instrumental in developing the Steadicam system that assured rock-steady camera movement under any circumstances, which he would later refine into his own "skycam" system for aerial photography. In 1996, Deschanel earned another Oscar nomination for his work on... Full Biography
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