Claude Renoir

Claude Renoir December 4 1913 September 5 1993 was a French cinematographer He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir the nephew of director Jean Renoir and the grandson of painter PierreAuguste Renoir He was born in Paris his mother being actress Véra Sergine He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman a brother of Dziga Vertov who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront 1954 Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent 1947 Jean Renoirs The River 1951 Cleopatra 1963 Roger Vadims Barbarella 1968 and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 At the time of Claude Renoirs death The Times of London wrote of The River that its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso 1956 the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by HenriGeorges Clouzot He was the cinematographer for The Crucible 1957 and lived in East Germany during filming Renoirs career came to a close in the late 1970s as he was rapidly losing sight In his final years he was largely blind He married twice and had two children a son and a daughter actress Sophie Renoir Claude Renoir died at age 79 in Troyes 55 miles east of Paris near the village of Essoyes where he had a home Source Article Claude Renoir from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30