Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. (born February 6, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer, and a film producer and director. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild.
Wexler was born in Chicago, Illinois, as were his parents, Simon and Lottie Wexler, whose children included Jerrold, Joyce (Isaacs), and Y...
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Haskell Wexler, A.S.C. (born February 6, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois) is an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer, and a film producer and director. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild.
Wexler was born in Chicago, Illinois, as were his parents, Simon and Lottie Wexler, whose children included Jerrold, Joyce (Isaacs), and Yale.
After a year of college at the University of California, Berkeley and a tour in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II, Wexler decided to become a filmmaker, despite having had no experience in the industry.
He briefly made industrial films in Chicago, then in 1947 became an assistant cameraman. Wexler worked on documentary features and shorts; low-budget docu-dramas such as 1959's The Savage Eye; television's The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet; and TV commercials. (He would later found Wexler-Hall, a television commercial...
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