Biography
Conrad Lafcadio Hall (also credited as Conrad L. Hall) was a French Polynesian-born American cinematographer. Born in Papeete, Tahiti, on 21 June 1926, he studied at the University of Southern California and began working in film in the 1950s, progressing from camera operator to director of photography. His first credited feature as cinematographer was in 1965.
Hall is best known for his work on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), American Beauty (1999) and Road to Perdition (2002), each of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. He received a further seven Oscar nominations, for films including In Cold Blood (1967), Tequila Sunrise (1988), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) and A Civil Action (1998). He also won three BAFTA Awards and five American Society of Cinematographers Awards.
Hall died in Santa Monica, California, on 4 January 2003. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named one of the ten most influential cinematographers in a 2003 survey by the International Cinematographers Guild.
