What is Walter Lassally?
[[File:Walter Lassally 2006 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Lassally in 2006]] '''Walter Lassally''' (18 December 1926 – 23 October 2017) was a German-born British-Greek [[cinematographer]]. He won the [[Academy Award for Best Cinematography]] in 1964 for the movie ''[[Zorba the Greek]]''. He was born in [[Berlin]]. He moved to England in 1939.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/65/Walter-Lassally.html|title=Walter Lassally Biography (1926-)|website=www.filmreference.com}}</ref> He was closely worked with the [[Free cinema]] movement in the 1950s, and the [[British New Wave]] in the early 1960s. Lassally died on October 23, 2017 at a hospital in [[Crete]], [[Greece]] from complications of surgery at the age of 90.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://flashnews.gr/post/329588/syllyphthria-bamboyka-gia-thn-apwleia-kinhmatografisth-walter-lassaly|title=Συλλυπητήρια Βάμβουκα για την απώλεια κινηματογραφιστή Walter Lassaly|website=Flashnews.gr}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDb name|0007178}} *{{Screenonline name|id=451935|name=Walter Lassally}} * [http://webofstories.com/gl/walter.lassally Walter Lassally telling his life story at Web of Stories] (video) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lassally, Walter}} [[Category:Academy Award winners]] [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from surgical complications]] [[Category:British cinematographers]] [[Category:Greek people]] [[Category:People from Berlin]] {{bio-stub}}