Richard Howard Kline, A.S.C.

American Society of Cinematographers

The American Society of Cinematographers is an educational, cultural, and professional organization. It is not a labor union, and it is not a guild. Membership is by invitation and is extended only to directors of photography and special effects experts with distinguished credits in the film...

 (15 November 1926 in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California

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, California

California

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, USA) is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 cinematographer

Cinematographer

A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...

. The son of cinematographer Benjamin H. Kline, he joined Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an American film production and distribution company. Columbia Pictures now forms part of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Japanese conglomerate Sony. It is one of the leading film companies...

 at the age of 16 in 1943.

Credits

• Meet Wally Sparks (1997) (as Richard Kline)
• Home Song (1996) (TV) ... aka LaVyrle Spencer's 'Home Song'
• Double Impact (1991) (as Richard Kline)
• Downtown (1990)
• My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
• Touch and Go (1986)
• Howard the Duck (1986)

... aka Howard: A New Breed of Hero

• The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
• All of Me (1984)
• Hard to Hold (1984)
• Man, Woman and Child (1983)
• Deal of the Century (1983)
• Breathless (1983)

... aka A Bout de Souffle Made in USA

• Coming Out of the Ice (1982) (TV)
• Death Wish II (1982)
• Lovespell (1981)

... aka Summer of the Falcon (Ireland: English title)
... aka Tristan and Iseult
... aka Tristan and Isolde

• Body Heat (1981) (director of photography)
• The Competition (1980)
• Touched by Love (1980)

... aka To Elvis, with Love

• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the first film based on the Star Trek television series. The film is set in the twenty-third century, when a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud called V'Ger approaches the Earth,...
  
  (1979)

... aka Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition (USA: DVD title)

• Tilt (1979)
• Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)

... aka Dog Soldiers

• The Fury (1978)
• That's Action (1977)
• King Kong
  King Kong (1976 film)
  King Kong is a 1976 American monster movie produced by Dino De Laurentiis and directed by John Guillermin. It is a remake of the 1933 classic film of the same name, about a giant ape that is captured and imported to New York City for exhibition....
  
  (1976)
• Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
• Mandingo (1975)
• Kate McShane (1975) (TV)
• I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now (1975)

... aka Kill My Wife Please (USA)

• Harrad Summer (1974)

... aka Love All Summer (USA: video title)
... aka Student Union

• Mr. Majestyk (1974) (director of photography)
• The Terminal Man (1974)
• The Don Is Dead (1973)

... aka Beautiful But Deadly (USA: TV title)
... aka The Deadly Kiss

• Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

... aka Colonization of the Planet of the Apes

• The Harrad Experiment (1973)
• Soylent Green (1973)
• Black Gunn (1972)
• The Mechanic (1972)

... aka Killer of Killers

• When the Legends Die (1972)
• Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
• Kotch (1971)
• The Andromeda Strain
  The Andromeda Strain (film)
  The Andromeda Strain is a 1971 American science-fiction film, based on the novel published in 1969 by Michael Crichton. The film is about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly organism of extraterrestrial origin that causes rapid, fatal blood clotting. Directed by Robert Wise, the film...
  
  (1971)
• The Moonshine War (1970)
• A Dream of Kings (1969)
• Backtrack! (1969)
• Gaily, Gaily (1969)

... aka Chicago, Chicago (UK)

• The Boston Strangler (1968)
• Hang 'Em High (1968) (director of photography) (as Richard Kline)
• Camelot (1967)
• Chamber of Horrors (1966) (as Richard Kline)
• The Monkees (1966) TV Series (pilot)

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