Allen Daviau, the five-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer who worked for Steve Spielberg and Barry Levinson on films including E.T.
the Extra-Terrestrial, Empire of the Sun and Bugsy, died Wednesday of complications from the coronavirus.
He was 77.His death was announced by the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital, where he lived.
Daviau is the fourth resident at the Mptf facility to die from the virus.Daviau was introduced to Spielberg in 1967 and worked on two of the director’s early short films, and the pair went on to collaborate on Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977);…
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