ASC to honor Walter Lassally
Cinematographer earns Achievement award
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The Berlin-native, who started his 50-year-long career as a clapper boy for Riverside Studios, went to on play a significant role in the Free Cinema movement in the 1950s and the British New Wave in the early 1960s, along with Tony Richardson, Karel Reizs and Lindsey Anderson.
Credited as one of the first filmmakers to use handheld cameras on feature films, Lassally won an Oscar for cinematography on "Zorba The Greek" in 1965.
