Hector Ramirez, a cinematographer known for live events and music and comedy specials who received 20 Emmys and numerous other nominations over a 44-year career and more than 200 credits, has died. He was 78 years old. His wife Alma announced the news on social media last week.
“Today I lost my husband, life partner, friend, hero, protector, handyman and cinematographer,” she wrote on January 11. smaller. He was larger than life, father, grandfather, uncle, brother and loved by so many friends. He touched so many lives. He is very sorry. No more pain baby rest in peace and tell your stories to all the angels in heaven.”
Ramirez won four Emmys for his work dancing with the stars which he worked on from 2006 to 2013 and for which he also won TV Academy hardware american idol, the 1994 Oscars, the 2008 Grammys, and special appearances by Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, Cher, Sting and Neil Diamond. He also won four Emmys for his work on David Copperfield’s Magic Specials in the 1990s.
In total, Ramirez received 16 Emmy nominations for his cinematography at the Oscars between 1994 and 2012, 14 of them in a row. He has been nominated for the Grammys eight times, including six straight from 2007 to 2012. For a time, he held the all-time record for most Emmy nominations.
Born on August 26, 1944 in Bogotá, Colombia, Ramirez moved to the United States in the mid-1950s and attended the Don Martin School of Radio and Television Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. He received his first credit on a CBS miniseries in 1978 and began working steadily in 1981.
Other early credits included special musical appearances with the Beach Boys, Debby Boone, Fleetwood Mac and Perry Como and for the American Festival. He was also behind the front camera This is spinal tap the historic “We Are the World” recording session led by Quincy Jones, The three tenors in concert, the Eagles reunion special hell freezes over several MTV Video Music Awards, many other award shows and several George Carlin stand-up specials.
Ramirez also worked on Norman Lear’s classic 1970s sitcoms Everyone in the family, The Jeffersons and good times. In an interview with the Television Academy Foundation in 2011, he said: “Norman Lear came down and said, ‘My name is Norman Lear.’ I said, “Yes sir, I know.” And then he said, “You did well.” And that was it. So I thought, well, maybe I’ll come back. And I did.”
Most recently, Ramirez worked on the CWs Whose line is it anyway? from 2016-22.
Author: Erik Pedersen
Source: Deadline
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