Cinematographer Ric Waite dies

Ric Waite, cinematographer of films including "Footloose," "48 Several hrs.," "Red-colored-colored Beginning" and "The Extended Riders," died Saturday, Feb. 18, in La of natural causes. He was 78. For his be employed in television, Waite acquired four Emmy nominations, plus a win in 1976 for your NBC miniseries "Captains as well as the Nobleman." Waite began just like a still digital digital photographer. Within the NY City photography studio he possessed, he did fashion and advertising use magazines including GQ, Style, Glamour, 17 and Playboy and entrepreneurs for instance Jaguar and DuPont. He gone after La in 1970 and began behave as a cinematographer. Waite initially labored in television, lensing cases of series including "Emergency!," "Police Story" and "Capital of scotland- Angels" additionally to several telepics, including "Tail Gunner Joe" (he received an Emmy nom), "The Existence and Murder in the Kingfish" (another Emmy nom), "Dead of Evening" and "Amateur Evening within the Dixie Bar and Grill." He acquired his final Emmy nom for just about any later effort, the 1996 TNT telepic "Andersonville." Waite effectively moved on to bigscreen make use of the considerably famous Walter Hill Western "The Extended Riders" in 1979. Among the features he shot were Hill's "Brewster's Millions," starring Richard Pryor and John Chocolate Carl Reiner's "Summer season Rental," with Chocolate Nicholas Meyer's "Volunteers," starring Tom Hanks and Chocolate "Cobra," starring Sylvester Stallone Chris Columbus' "Adventures in Babysitting" and diverse films starring Steven Seagal. Richard Waite was produced in Sheboygan, Wisc. After secondary school he grew to become part of the atmosphere Pressure and travelled while using Photo Intelligence group. Waite was area of the American Society of Cinematographers. In 2002 he gone after the Colorado area, where he trained cinematography and lighting within the Colorado U. Film School. Lately Waite shot the movies "Best Ribs aroundInch and "Assassins' Code," which he was set as director of photography round the film "Legacy," that's in pre-production. Waite is managed to get by his wife of 48 years, Judy a boy together with a daughter. Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com