British cinematographer Billy Williams (not Billy Dee Williams, calm down!), died on May 21. He was 95. Williams trained with his cinematographer father, and after serving in the RAF, began his career filming TV commercials. He eventually shot such films as Women in Love, On Golden Pond, Sunday Bloody Sunday, The Wind and the Lion, Boardwalk, and Gandhi (which won him an Oscar). From 1975-77, Williams was President of the British Society of Cinematographers; in 2009, he was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to the film industry. Williams said that “I feel I have been very lucky to have had a career in filmmaking, which has been the most satisfying, rewarding, exciting job I can imagine.” Fun fact: some of the second-unit “driving around” footage from On Golden Pond was later used as the opening for Newhart.
