
Gordon Willis
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Born in Astoria, Queens, Willis entered the film world after serving in the Air Force’s Photographic and Charting Service, where he learned the fundamentals of motion-picture production before climbing the New York union ladder from assistant cameraman to first cameraman. His breakthrough arrived with Aram Avakian’s End of the Road (1969), after which he became a sought-after director of photograp…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources