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Conrad Hall, Cinematographer Of 'Butch Cassidy,' Dies at 76

Lyman, Rick

2003

Overview

Conrad L. Hall, a Hollywood cinematographer with a bohemian's soul and an artist's obsessiveness, who was nominated for nine Oscars and won two of them, three decades apart, died on Saturday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 76 and split his time between a vintage penthouse just off the Sunset Strip and a private island just off Tahiti. His father, James Norman Hall, had moved to Tahiti after reading a book about the mutiny on H.M.S. Bounty. There, he and a collaborator, Charles Nordhoff, wrote their own ''Mutiny on the Bounty'' trilogy and it became the source for the 1935 Oscar-winning film starring Clark Gable. The elder Mr. Hall named his son after his favorite South Pacific writer, Joseph Conrad. Two films with Paul Newman -- ''Harper'' (1966) and ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967) -- helped him land the job on ''[Butch Cassidy] and the Sundance Kid,'' probably his most admired work. While working on that film that he met his first wife, the actress Katharine Ross, to whom he was married from 1969 to 1975.

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