Richard H. Kline
American cinematographer (1926-2018)
Richard Howard Kline, ASC (November 15, 1926 - August 7, 2018) was an American cinematographer. He was a second-generation filmmaker, being the son of cinematographer Benjamin H. Kline and the nephew of ASC co-founder Phil Rosen and cinematographer Sol Halperin. He was twice Oscar nominated, for Camelot (1967) and King Kong (1976).
Other notable films he shot included The Boston Strangler (1968), The Andromeda Strain (1971), The Mechanic (1972), Soylent Green (1973), Mandingo (1975), The Fury (1978), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Body Heat (1981), and Howard the Duck (1986). He often worked with directors Richard Fleischer and Michael Winner.
Early life
Kline was born in Los Angeles, California in 1926; his father was cinematographer Benjamin H. Kline, and his uncles were cinematographers Sol Halperin and Phil Rosen, the latter being a co-founder of the American Society of Cinematographers.
After Kline graduated from high school in 1943 at the age of 16, his father got him a job as a slate boy working for Columbia Pictures the same year, and one of the films he worked on as a slate boy was Cover Girl. He originally had aspiration of being a lawyer.
A year later, in 1944, Kline joined the U.S. Navy, serving from 1944 to 1946. He initially worked at the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory.
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