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Michel Hugo is a Director of Photography and Cinematography French born on 13 january 1930
Michel Squarciafico — né le 13 janvier 1930 à Paris, mort le 12 octobre 2010 à Las Vegas (Nevada) — est un directeur de la photographie américain d'origine française.
Connu comme Michel Hugo (membre de l'ASC), il fait carrière principalement aux États-Unis.
La même année 1953 sort son premier film comme directeur de la photographie (associé), L'Étrange Amazone de Jean Vallée (avec Jeannette Batti et Lucien Blondeau). Trois ans plus tard, en 1956, il s'installe définitivement aux États-Unis, où il mène toute la suite de sa carrière.
Naturalisé américain en 1960, son premier film américain est Head de Bob Rafelson (1968, avec Peter Tork et Davy Jones).
Suivent quatre films sortis en 1969, dont Model Shop de Jacques Demy (coproduction franco-américaine, avec Anouk Aimée et Gary Lockwood) et Folies d'avril de Stuart Rosenberg (avec Jack Lemmon et Catherine Deneuve).
Parmi ses dix-neuf autres films américains — les deux derniers sortis en 1982 puis 2008 —, citons R.P.M. de Stanley Kramer (1970, avec Anthony Quinn et Ann-Margret), Les Insectes de feu de Jeannot Szwarc (1975, avec Bradford Dillman et Joanna Miles), ainsi que La Fureur sauvage de Richard Lang (1980, avec Charlton Heston et Brian Keith).
Pour la télévision américaine, Michel Hugo est directeur de la photographie sur treize séries, depuis Mission impossible (vingt-trois épisodes, 1967-1968) jusqu'à Melrose Place (soixante-treize épisodes, 1992-1996), en passant notamment par Les Rues de San Francisco (vingt-quatre épisodes, 1976-1977) et Dynastie (cent-vingt-six épisodes, 1981-1989).
S'y ajoutent vingt-neuf téléfilms diffusés entre 1971 et 1991.
Devenu membre de l'American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) en 1972, il est par ailleurs enseignant à partir de 2001 au département cinéma de l'Université du Nevada de Las Vegas (ville où il meurt en 2010, à 80 ans).
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Michel Hugo
Birth name Michel Squarciafico
Nationality France
Birth 13 january 1930
Death 12 october 2010 (at 80 years)
Nationality France
Birth 13 january 1930
Death 12 october 2010 (at 80 years)
Connu comme Michel Hugo (membre de l'ASC), il fait carrière principalement aux États-Unis.
Biography
Fils du chef opérateur Hugo Squarciafico (souvent crédité Hugo Scarciafico ou bien Scarciafico Hugo), Michel Hugo est premier assistant opérateur sur trois films français respectivement sortis en 1952, 1953 et 1955 — les deux derniers aux côtés de son père, dont Maternité clandestine de Jean Gourguet en 1953 —.La même année 1953 sort son premier film comme directeur de la photographie (associé), L'Étrange Amazone de Jean Vallée (avec Jeannette Batti et Lucien Blondeau). Trois ans plus tard, en 1956, il s'installe définitivement aux États-Unis, où il mène toute la suite de sa carrière.
Naturalisé américain en 1960, son premier film américain est Head de Bob Rafelson (1968, avec Peter Tork et Davy Jones).
Suivent quatre films sortis en 1969, dont Model Shop de Jacques Demy (coproduction franco-américaine, avec Anouk Aimée et Gary Lockwood) et Folies d'avril de Stuart Rosenberg (avec Jack Lemmon et Catherine Deneuve).
Parmi ses dix-neuf autres films américains — les deux derniers sortis en 1982 puis 2008 —, citons R.P.M. de Stanley Kramer (1970, avec Anthony Quinn et Ann-Margret), Les Insectes de feu de Jeannot Szwarc (1975, avec Bradford Dillman et Joanna Miles), ainsi que La Fureur sauvage de Richard Lang (1980, avec Charlton Heston et Brian Keith).
Pour la télévision américaine, Michel Hugo est directeur de la photographie sur treize séries, depuis Mission impossible (vingt-trois épisodes, 1967-1968) jusqu'à Melrose Place (soixante-treize épisodes, 1992-1996), en passant notamment par Les Rues de San Francisco (vingt-quatre épisodes, 1976-1977) et Dynastie (cent-vingt-six épisodes, 1981-1989).
S'y ajoutent vingt-neuf téléfilms diffusés entre 1971 et 1991.
Devenu membre de l'American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) en 1972, il est par ailleurs enseignant à partir de 2001 au département cinéma de l'Université du Nevada de Las Vegas (ville où il meurt en 2010, à 80 ans).
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Pandemonium (1982)
Directed by Alfred Sole
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Actors Eileen Brennan, Phil Hartman, Judge Reinhold, Carol Kane, Paul Reubens, Candice Azzara
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52%
Somebody is killing cheerleaders at a camp, and a Royal Canadian Mountie named Cooper tries to solve the case.
When the Circus Came to Town (1981)
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Circus films
Actors Elizabeth Montgomery, Christopher Plummer, Eileen Brennan, Gretchen Wyler, Anne Haney, Bob Yerkes
Roles Director of Photography
Rating77%
The Octagon (1980)
, 1h44Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, John Fujioka, Art Hindle, Lee Van Cleef, Richard Norton
Roles Director of Photography
Rating50%
A martial artist (Chuck Norris) must stop a group of terrorists trained in the ninja style by his half-brother (Tadashi Yamashita).
Gorp (1980)
, 1h30Directed by Joseph Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about religion, Transport films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Road movies
Actors Michael Lembeck, Dennis Quaid, Fran Drescher, Rosanna Arquette, Philip Casnoff, David Huddleston
Roles Director of Photography
Rating35%
Chaos reigns in the Catskills when Kavell and Bergman, two college students who spend their summers working in the dining hall at Camp Oskemo, an upstate New York summer camp where they're the senior waiters, return. Serving food to bratty children doesn't interest them nearly as much as trying to make it with the female counselors at the camp, among them the pretty but chaste Vicki and the beautiful and sexually liberated Evie. Kavell and Bergman also wage an annual war against the junior waiters with the help of deranged server Mad Grossman, but their real nemesis is Walrus Wallman, the camp owner who makes no secret of his dislike for the waiters. Over the course of one eventful summer, Kavell, Bergman, and their fellow food slingers dose the entire camp with amphetamines, taint the Kosher meals with pork, screen pornographic films during Parent's Weekend, run a tank through the campgrounds, and destroy the waiter's housing and most of what surrounds it.
The Mountain Men (1980)
, 1h42Directed by Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Seymour Cassel, Dr. Stephen Macht, David Ackroyd, John Glover
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Bill Tyler (Heston) is an argumentative, curmudgeonly mountain man. Henry Frapp (Keith) is Tyler's good friend and fellow trapper. Together, they trap beaver, fight Native Amerians, and drink at a mountain man rendezvous while trying to sell their "plews", or beaver skins, to a cutthroat French trader named Fontenelle.
The Manitou (1978)
, 1h44Directed by William Girdler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror
Actors Tony Curtis, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Jon Cedar, Ann Sothern, Burgess Meredith
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53%
A woman named Karen (Susan Strasberg), who is suffering from a growing tumor on her neck, enters a hospital in San Francisco. After a series of X-rays, the doctors begin to think it is a living creature: a fetus being born inside the tumor. Eerie and grisly occurrences begin; the tumorous growth perceives itself – himself – to be under attack as a result of the X-rays used to ascertain its nature, which are starting to stunt and deform its development. The growth is actually the old Native American shaman, Misquamacus; he is reincarnating himself through the young woman to exact his revenge on white men who invaded North America and exterminated its native peoples. A second Native American shaman is contacted and hired to help fight the reincarnating medicine man, but the kind of spirits he can summon and control appear to be too weak to match his opponent's abilities.
The Bastard (1978)
, 4hDirected by Lee H. Katzin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Andrew Stevens, Tom Bosley, Kim Cattrall, Buddy Ebsen, Lorne Greene, Olivia Hussey
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution.
Terror Out of the Sky (1978)
, 1h37Directed by Lee H. Katzin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Efrem Zimbalist II, Dan Haggerty, Tovah Feldshuh, Lonny Chapman, Ike Eisenmann, Joe E. Tata
Roles Director of Photography
Rating46%
Une nouvelle race d'abeilles voit le jour dans un laboratoire de recherche et sème la terreur le jour de l'Indépendance...
Ode to Billy Joe (1976)
, 1h45Directed by Max Baer Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Robby Benson, Glynnis O'Connor, Joan Hotchkis, James Best
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Set in 1953, the film explores the budding relationship between Billy Joe McAllister (Benson) and Bobbie Lee Hartley (O'Connor) (who corresponds to the unnamed narrator of the original song), despite resistance from Hartley's family, who contend she is too young to date. One night at a jamboree, McAllister gets drunk and seems nauseated and confused when entering a makeshift whorehouse behind the gathering.
Bug (1975)
, 1h40Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about insects
Actors Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Alan Fudge, Richard Gilliland, Patty McCormack, William Castle
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52%
An earthquake releases a bunch of mutant cockroaches that can create fire by rubbing their cerci together. Eventually most of the bugs die because they cannot survive in the low air pressure on the Earth's surface, but a scientist Prof. James Parmiter (Dillman) keeps one alive in a pressure chamber. He successfully breeds the cockroach with a modern bug creating a breed of intelligent, flying super-bugs.
, 1h42Directed by Ivan Dixon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Lawrence Cook, Paula Kelly, J. A. Preston
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
The story takes place in the early 1970s in Chicago. The CIA has been required for political reasons to recruit African Americans for training. Only one of them, Dan Freeman (Lawrence Cook), secretly a black nationalist, successfully completes the training process. He becomes the first black man in the agency and is given a desk job—Top Secret Reproduction Center Sections Chief (which means he's in charge of the copy machine). Freeman understands that he is the token black person in the CIA, and that the CIA defines his function as providing proof of the agency's supposed commitment to integration and progress. Therefore, after completing his training in guerrilla warfare techniques, weaponry, communications and subversion, Freeman puts in just enough time to avoid raising any suspicions about his motives before he resigns from the CIA and returns to work in the social services in Chicago.
One Is a Lonely Number (1972)
, 1h37Directed by Mel Stuart
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Feminist films, Political films
Actors Trish Van Devere, Monte Markham, Janet Leigh, Melvyn Douglas, Jane Elliot, Jonathan Goldsmith
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
The story follows Aimee Brower (Van Devere), who wakes and finds her husband has left her. After learning everything about why he did it, she then proceeds to put her life back together.
Trouble Man (1972)
, 1h39Directed by Ivan Dixon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield, Paula Kelly, Ralph Waite, Bill Henderson, Gordon Jump
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
Dans ce drame urbain, un homme de la ville cherche à fuir à la fois les flics et des escrocs dans ce drame urbain. T (Robert Hooks) est la combinaison d'un requin de piscine, d'un détective privé et d'un homme à tout faire du ghetto, menant ses affaires depuis un club de billard dans le centre-sud de Los Angeles.
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Romance
Actors James Garner, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook, June Allyson, Tom Ewell, Harry Guardino
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Abel Marsh is a sarcastic, thick-skinned police chief in a small West Coast seaside town — the fictional Eden Landing, located somewhere between San Francisco and Los Angeles, where everyone knows each other. When one of its citizens is killed under mysterious circumstances many rumors arise, the most notorious of them being that the victim was killed by her own Doberman Pinscher.
Bless the Beasts & Children (1971)
, 1h49Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Bill Mumy, Barry Robins, Jesse White, Miles Chapin, Kenneth C. Swofford, Elaine Devry
Roles Director of Photography
Rating66%
The story follows a group of six teenaged boys, who share a cabin at a residential summer camp in the western mountains. Each of the boys is a misfit in one way or another; the group is ostracized by the other boys at the camp, and form a bond based, in part, on this broader social isolation. After being taken on a field trip to see a herd of bison selected for culling by local hunters, the boys resolve to sneak away from the camp and set the penned bison free.