Oscar - nominated mixer has worked on classics like 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'Rain Man' WHEN RICHARD BRYCE GOODMAN was a young man, his wide-ranging interests included photography, music and ...philosophy (his father, Paul, was a sculptor friend of the artist Henry Moore), but it was a present he received while growing up in Baltimore that seems to have had the biggest influence on his career arc. With Tom Cruise blasting his lines and Dustin Hoffman delivering his in a mumbling monotone, strategic placement of microphones and extreme technical prowess was required to produce a conversational mix for a film that won four Academy Awards, including best picture. After mixing the film "The Bodyguard," which produced a best-selling soundtrack album, Goodman worked on a collection of popular projects, from Frank Darabont's 1999 classic "The Green Mile" and Paul Verhoeven's "Hollow Man" to John Woo's "Windtalkers" and Ben Stiller's 2008 "Tropic Thunder."
Landing a technician job in a one-room production lab in Tel Aviv, he used his downtime wisely "Reading old copies of Cinematographer magazine was my training," says Greenberg (born Grinberg), who ...wound up in the Middle East at age 3, after fleeing from the Nazi war machine in his native Krakow in 1942 with his two sisters. Roger Corman's brother Gene, a producer on "The Big Red One," whom Greenberg had met while working on 1976 drama "The Passover Plot," connected the DP to the film's director, Sam Fuller. Shooting Arnold Schwarzenegger from the thighs up to look larger - and lit in full blues and half-greens - he strove to give the film a signature cold and static look that audiences would remember.
Rexford Metz took to the tarmac and the sky - and went underwater - to get memorable shots in iconic films King of the second-unit cinematographers, Rexford Metz is second to none when it comes to ...getting shots on the ground, in water or high in the sky He operated the camera during the famed 10-minute chase sequence in "Bullitt" on the streets of San Francisco in 1968, and it was his coverage of muscle cars - and stuntman Bud Ekins' motorcycle slide - that viewers could feel on the seat of their pants. Metz handled the wet stuff, including trombone shots and inverse tracking of the mechanical shark the crew dubbed "Bruce," as well as live footage of fish with shark experts Ron and Valerie Taylor. For TV series "Baa Baa Black Sheep," later syndicated as "Black Sheep Squadron," the Stephen J. Cannell production used a half-dozen converted AT-6 trainers as Japanese Zeros and a quartet of Corsair F4Us that together filled the morning skies above Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Southern California.
The stunt double for Robert Redford from 1969's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" through 2018's "The Old Man & the Gun," Gilbert has more than 100 film and TV credits as a stunt coordinator and a ...second-unit director - all of which sprang from Western stunt work dating back more than half a century Born April 17, 1936, in Hollywood to Genevieve and Frank Gilbert, he learned to rope and ride amid the alfalfa fields of Van Nuys. Surrounded by industry pros of top standing, he developed a combination shoot-off and stirrup drag for the opening bank robbery, which also featured him scooping up a bag of gold coins on the ground while leaning down from the saddle at a full gallop. The same year, Gilbert handled stunt coordinator duties on "Butch Cassidy" Doubling Redford while Howard Curtis subbed for Paul Newman on the famous cliff'sedge "buddy leap," Gilbert had the idea to use the 120-foot-high construction crane rigged over Paramount's backlot pond that made surviving the shot possible.
Born in 1939, the San Francisco native traveled a long-rising arc in his career, which includes distinguished stints shooting aerial sequences for documentaries and some of the most iconic films of ...the 1960s, eventually becoming director of photography on a run of Clint Eastwood movies and more recent comedies such as "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," "Hot Tub Time Machine" and two "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" movies. When Green was drafted by friend and cinematographer Rexford Metz to operate B-camera on Eastwood's "The Gauntlet," the action film's nocturnal schedule - which included crashes and steel-plated bus shootouts - taught him the Zen of minimal takes and how to give cinematographers what they want in difficult circumstances. The DP became a chameleon of visceral shooting styles, as seen in movies ranging from "White Hunter Black Heart" and "The Bridges of Madison County" to "Unforgiven" and "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."
From "Platoon" and "Saving Private Ryan" to "The Thin Red Line" and his most recent work, 2019's "The Last Full Measure," his attention to detail - along with his boot camp methods for teaching ...actors to be soldiers - share a singular vision: realism. Dye devised a boot camp for the film's actors, including Charlie Sheen, Johnny Depp, Forest Whitaker and Kevin Dillon, running them through rigorous workouts, weapons drills, full-pack marches and tent living, complete with K-rations. Brian De Palma ("Casualties of War"), Adrian Lyne ("Jacob's Ladder"), Michael Mann ("The Last of the Mohicans"), Paul Verhoeven ("Starship Troopers"), Steven Spielberg ("Saving Private Ryan" and "Band of Brothers") and Terrence Malick ("The Thin Red Line").
Ron Jaffe rose up the ranks to become one of the biz's top still photographers. Crusing the edge of sets like a shark in shallow water, still photographer Ron P. Jaffe has spent a career using his ...stealthiness to capture the perfect shot. Sharing tales from times past as he sits in the serenity of his Playa del Rey home, he describes taking pictures on many of the crime movies, comedies and dramatic television series made in Hollywood during the past 30 years. Shooting everything from explosions to gory crime scenes, ID photos to autopsies, he climbed into the big leagues, one fireball at a time.
Oscar-winning inventor Garrett Brown has taken camerawork to new frontiers. In he history of motion-picture technology, few operators have had a more profound effect on camera movement than Garrett ...Brown. Preceding the prototype's successful debut in 1972 for ABC Sports (covering female jockey Robyn Smith on a 600foot uncut walk from weighing room to paddock), Brown sent out an "impossible shots" reel that included a scene of his girlfriend and future wife Ellen ascending the 72 steps at the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art with, miraculously, nary a camera wobble. Referring to operating the Steadicam, the Academy Award-winning inventor offered an analogy "It's like painting while riding a horse," says Brown.
Betty Pecha Madden worked with Cary Grant, Michael Jackson and others. Dressing folls as a child at her parents' Wisconsin farm, future costume designer Betty Pecha Madden created stories using ...clothes. Embarking on a career spanning 40-plus years, Madden learned her garment trade doing everything from sitcoms like "It's a Living" to costume design chores for Academy Awards shows. Whether talking Cary Grant through a bow tie selection or helping to transport millions of dollars of Van Cleef & Arpels jewels under tight security to awards shows, Madden, alongside designer Ron Talsky, also coordinated presenters' outfits to ensure theme continuity "With awards shows," she says, "framing is all about necklines, and headshots fill the screen.
'The Brink's Job' crew was abuzz when $2 million in cash was brought to the set. Prop master Barry Bedig was literally born into the biz. Yet despite being the son of storied special effects man Sass ...Bedig ("The Godfather," "Bullitt," "The French Connection"), Barry's youth was largely unaffected by Tinseltown's glare. Infrequent studio visits with Dad produced understated memories. "I got to ride Roy Rogers' horse Trigger once," he deadpans. Obtaining union status at 25 in 1964 at 20 th Century Fox after a stint in the U.S. Navy, Bedig was one of the youngest prop masters in the history of IATSE Local 44, having gained the prerequisite 2,000 hours for membership, then passed the daunting written exam.
