Cinematographer Ric Waite dies

Ric Waite, cinematographer of films including "Footloose," "48 Several hours.," "Red-colored Beginning" and "The Lengthy Riders," died Saturday, February. 18, in La of natural causes. He was 78. For his operate in television, Waite gained four Emmy nominations, together with a win in 1976 for that NBC miniseries "Captains and also the Nobleman." Waite started like a still digital photographer. In the NY City photography studio he possessed, he did fashion and advertising work with magazines including GQ, Style, Glamour, 17 and Playboy and marketers for example Jaguar and DuPont. He gone to live in La in 1970 and started act as a cinematographer. Waite initially labored in television, lensing instances of series including "Emergency!," "Police Story" and "Town of Angels" in addition to numerous telepics, including "Tail Gunner Joe" (that he received an Emmy nom), "The Existence and Murder from the Kingfish" (another Emmy nom), "Dead of Evening" and "Amateur Evening in the Dixie Bar and Grill." He obtained his final Emmy nom for any later effort, the 1996 TNT telepic "Andersonville." Waite effectively moved forward to bigscreen use the significantly famous Walter Hill Western "The Lengthy Riders" in 1979. One of the features he shot were Hill's "Brewster's Millions," starring Richard Pryor and John Chocolate Carl Reiner's "Summer time Rental," with Chocolate Nicholas Meyer's "Volunteers," starring Tom Hanks and Chocolate "Cobra," starring Sylvester Stallone Chris Columbus' "Adventures in Babysitting" and numerous films starring Steven Seagal. Richard Waite was created in Sheboygan, Wisc. After senior high school he became a member of the environment Pressure and travelled using the Photo Intelligence group. Waite was part of the American Society of Cinematographers. In 2002 he gone to live in the Colorado area, where he trained cinematography and lighting in the Colorado U. Film School. Recently Waite shot the flicks "Best Ribs aroundInch and "Assassins' Code," and that he was set as director of photography around the film "Legacy," that is in pre-production. Waite is made it by his wife of 48 years, Judy a boy along with a daughter. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com