Robert Maxwell (cinematographer)

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Robert Maxwell
Born
Robert Ervin Maxwell

December 25, 1923
Los Angeles, California, USA
DiedDecember 22, 1978
Redondo Beach, California, USA
OccupationCinematographer

Robert Maxwell (sometimes credited as Bob Maxwell) was an American cinematographer known for his work on B movies, pornography, and exploitation films of the 1960s and 1970s. His best-known credits include Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Badasssss Song and Don't Play Us Cheap . [1] [2] [3]

Selected filmography

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References

  1. Reid-Pharr, Robert (2007). Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual . NYU Press. p.  155. ISBN   9780814775844. bob maxwell cinematographer.
  2. Greenspun, Roger (1971-04-24). "Screen: Ideas for Cliches". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  3. McCarty, John (2016-01-25). The Sleaze Merchants: Adventures in Exploitation Filmmaking from the '50s to the '90s. Crossroad Press.
  4. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. 1972.