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Richard M. Rawlings Jr, a second-generation cinematographer pinch 4 profession Emmy noms whose credits scope from nan original Charlie’s Angels to L.A. Law, Gilmore Girls and Desperate Housewives, has died. He was 82.
The American Society of Cinematographers confirmed nan news but did not supply specifications astir cause, spot aliases day of death.
During his 30-year lensing career, Rawlings Jr won an ASC Award successful 1988 for nan CBS occidental bid Paradise, for which he besides scored an Emmy nomination. His 3 different Emmy noms came for ABC’s Ohara in 1988, NBC’s Reasonable Doubts in 1993 and nan CBS telepic Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story successful 1995. He besides honored pinch nan ASC’s Television Career Achievement Award successful 2014.
Born connected Oct. 9, 1943, successful Los Anagles, Rawlings Jr was nan boy of Richard L. Rawlings, who besides had a agelong profession arsenic a TV cinematographer including aggregate seasons of Dynasty and Gilligan’s Island. The younger Rawlings sewage his showbiz commencement arsenic a messenger astatine Warner Bros for 3 years earlier getting into camera work. He later assisted his begetter connected shows including Gilligan’s Island.
The elder Rawlings was moving connected nan classical 1970s crime play Charlie’s Angels when its executive shaper Aaron Spelling reassigned him to activity connected his then-new primetime soap Dynasty. That became nan younger Rawlings’ large break, arsenic he took nan cinematography reins halfway done nan 3rd play of Charlie’s Angels successful 1978 — basking disconnected being a Top 5 bid successful each of primetime. He would enactment successful that domiciled until nan show wrapped successful 1981.
From there, Rawlings Jr would activity connected dozens of primetime TV bid nan 1982-85 ABC action show Matt Houston, ABC’s Stingray, NBC’s Marlee Matlin-led ineligible play Reasonable Doubts and NBC’s Emmy-winning L.A. Law. He went connected to lens specified 2000s hits arsenic Boston Public, Gilmore Girls and Desperate Housewives. Rawlings Jr besides worked connected a fistful of TV movies, and his last in installments was a 2008 section of Boston Public.
Rawlings Jr talked astir his trade successful a 1995 question and reply pinch ASC’s mag American Cinematographer. “I’ll locomotion onto a group that I’ve ne'er seen before, and my original ideas alteration astir wherever nan lights will spell and astir nan emotion of nan scene,” he said. “Then, erstwhile I perceive to nan actors opportunity nan words, my ideas whitethorn alteration again. I ever hold until nan infinitesimal and past make my choices. I’m besides not a method personification [in position of] utilizing look to find lighting; I don’t cognize how to do that. Outside, I conjecture nan vulnerability and past usage a meter; inside, I cognize precisely really overmuch ray location is because I sprout by eye. I cognize what 20 footcandles looks like.”
Information connected survivors was incomplete.
