Vilmos Zsigmond

Info

Role

Director | Actor

Date of birth

06/16/1930

Date of death

01/01/2016

Place of birth

Szeged, Hungary

Vilmos Zsigmond

Biography

Along with László Kovács, a fellow student who fled Hungary in 1956, Zsigmond rose to prominence in the 1970s. He is known for his use of natural light and vivid use of color on features such as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).