Vilmos Zsigmond

Cast · Director

Born

June 16, 1930 · Szeged, Hungary

Died

January 1, 2016

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).