Vilmos Zsigmond

Date of Birth: 16 June 1930, Szeged, Hungary Date of Death: 1 January 2016, Big Sur, California, USA Cinematographer Along with László Kovács, a fellow student who fled Hungary in 1956, Zsigmond rose to prominence in the 1970s. He is known for his use of natural light and vivid use of color on features such as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).