- Elliott Marks
Elliott Marks (
3 December 1941 –9 July 2003) was amovie stills photographer who was posthumously awarded the first Still Photographer Award by theInternational Cinematographers Guild Publicists Awards in 2004. According to the award citation: "Marks devoted 25 years of his life to capturing some of the best images from an array of classic Hollywood films. His credits include "Pirates of the Caribbean ", "The Horse Whisperer ", "Clueless", "Down and Out in Beverly Hills ", "Annie " and "Rocky ."Elliott Stephen Marks was born in
Toronto, Ontario ,Canada in 1941. After a career as a wildlife photographer he gained his first screen credit as the still photographer for "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" in 1973. In 1996, Marks was inducted as a founding member of theSociety of Motion Picture Still Photographers . He was the recipient of theSociety of Operating Cameramen 's Lifetime Achievement Award.Marks was married to Deborah Klar. He also fathered a son, Harrison, by his first wife Andie.
The movie "
Starsky & Hutch (film) " was dedicated to Marks.References
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* [http://www.cameraguild.com/awards/pub/pub04/ '2004 Publicists Awards', "International Cinematographers Guild", (2004)] . RetrievedFebruary 17 2006.
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