Clint Eastwood's longtime assistant Bruce Surtees has died at the age of 74.
The Oscar-nominated cinematographer anesthetized abroad aftermost Thursday (23Feb12), according to Variety. No added capacity about his afterlife were accepted as WENN went to press.
Surtees was the son of allegorical Hollywood cinematographer Robert L. Surtees, who won Oscars for King Solomon's Mines, The Bad and the Beautiful, and the ballsy Ben Hur, and he is best accepted for his all-encompassing assignment with Eastwood.
He fabricated 14 films with the adept actor/director, including 1971's Dirty Harry, and Eastwood chose Surtees as his administrator of photography back he fabricated his authoritative admission on Play Misty for Me in 1971.
Surtees won an Oscar choice in 1975 for his assignment on Bob Fosse's Lenny Bruce biopic Lenny and his added blur credits accommodate Risky Business and Beverly Hills Cop.
