Other bigscreen work during the 1980s included Sylvester Stallone starrer First Blood, MGM documentary That's Dancing!, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, Poltergeist II: The Other Side: Innerspace and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. His final films, in the early 1990s, were Ghost Dad and the musical Newsies.
Laszlo was busy in other spheres as well. He had formed Andrew Laszlo Prods. as a producer of
commercials, and he taught other cinematographers. In addition, he was the author of several books, including,
with Andrew Quicke, the text " Every Frame a Rembrandt: Art and Practice of Cinematography" in 2000.
His autobiography, Footnote to History, was published in 2002, and he also wrote a novel.
He is survived by his wife, Ann; three sons and a daughter; and five grandchildren.
FILMS
1963 One Potato, Two Potato [Larry Peerce]
1966 You're a Big Boy Now [Francis Ford Coppola]
1967 The Night They Raided Minsky's [ William Friedkin]
1968 Popi [Arthur Hiller]
1969 The Angel Levine [Jan Kadar]
1969 The Out-of-Towners [Arthur Hiller]
1969 Lovers and Other Strangers [Cy Howard]
1970 The Owl and the Pussycat [Herbert Ross]
1971 Jennifer on My Mind [Noel Black]
1971 To Find a Man/Sex and the Teenager [Buzz Kulik]
1972 Class of '44 [Paul Bogart]
1975 Countdown at Kusini/Cool Red [Ossie Davis]
1975 Thieves [John Berry (replaced by Al Viola]
1976 Rockshow/Wings Over the World [Paul McCartney (uncred)]
1976 Angela [Boris Sagal]
1977 Somebody Killed Her Husband [Lamont Johnson]
1978 The Warriors [Walter Hill]
1980 The Funhouse/Carnival of Terror [Tobe Hooper]
1980 Southern Comfort [Walter Hill]
1981 I, the Jury [Richard Heffron]
1981 First Blood/Rambo: First Blood [Ted Kotcheff]
1982 Comeback/Passion and Valor [Hall Bartlett]
1983 Streets of Fire [: A Rock & Roll Fable] [Walter Hill]
1983 That's Dancing! [Jack Haley Jr.]
1984 Thief of Hearts [Douglas Day Stewart]
1984 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins/Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous [Guy Hamilton]
1985 Poltergeist II: The Other Side [Brian Gibson]
1986 Innerspace [Joe Dante]
1988 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier [William Shatner]
1989 Ghost Dad [Sidney Poitier]
1991 Newsies/Newsboys [Kenny Ortega]
1997 Deerslayer [Bill Lowry]
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TELEVISION AS CAMERA OPERATOR
1955 You'll Never Get Rich/The Phil Silvers Show/Sergeant Bilko [Nat Hiken]
1956 Joe & Mabel [Ezra Stone & Daniel Petrie]
1956 Mama [Al De Caprio]
1958 Brenner [various]
1962 Naked City [various]
Plus a huge amount of television credits too vast to list............
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Born in Papa, Hungary, Laszlo started as a camera apprentice at the Motion Picture Studios of Budapest when WWII began. He and his family were sent to a Nazi concentration camp, and he was the clan's sole survivor; in 1947 he immigrated to the U.S. and became a freelance still photographer. Drafted into the U.S. Army, he served in the Signal Corps as a combat photographer during the Korean War.
After working for a producer of industrial films in Pittsburgh, he began work in television during the mid-'50s, at first as a camera operator on Bilko. He was cinematographer on Naked City in 1962-63 and later on the series Coronet Blue.
Laszlo made his feature d.p. debut on One Potato, Two Potato, shot the documentary The Beatles at Shea Stadium and then worked as with a young Francis Ford Coppola on the latter's 1966 film You're a Big Boy Now.
In 1968 he lensed William Friedkin's The Night They Raided Minsky's. From that point Laszlo was in demand as a cinematographer for more than two decades.
His next bigscreen projects included Arthur Hiller's The Out of Towners, Herbert Ross' The Owl and the Pussycat and Somebody Killed Her Husband. For TV his efforts included Delbert Mann's 1973 telepic The Man Without a Country, drawing an Emmy nom; miniseries The Dain Curse; and epic mini Shogun, for which he picked up a second Emmy nom.
Laszlo shot three films for renowned director Walter Hill: These were The Warriors, Southern Comfort and Streets of Fire.
Left: Andrew with Phil Silvers and Zippy the chimp on the set of Bilko
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