MEXICO CITY -- Award-winning Mexican cinematographer Jorge Stahl Jr. died of a respiratory illness in his Mexico City home Monday. He was 82. During his 50-year career, Stahl was behind the camera on some 170 productions. In Mexico, he won five of the nation's prestigious Ariel awards for such pictures as "Pedro Paramo" and director Alfonso Arau's "Calzonin Inspector". He was also director of photography on several Hollywood films, including the 1954 production "Garden of Evil", starring Gary Cooper, and 20th Century Fox's "September Storm". At home, he worked under such big-name directors as Luis Bunuel, Jorge Fons and Arturo Ripstein. His first project, Ismael Rodriguez's "Cuando Lloran los Valientes", bowed in 1945. He went on to work on a slew of movies during Mexico's Golden Era of Film and well into the late 1980s. Stahl was an honorary member of the Mexican film academy. Family and friends attended a memorial service here Monday.
- 11/25/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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