Jacques Haitkin, cinematographer for the first two A Nightmare on Elm Street , has died. he is31.
Hytkin passed away in March in San Francisco with muscular dystrophy After battling lateral sclerosis and leukemia, his son Zak Haitkin told The Hollywood Reporter . “He always said he never worked a day in his life because he loved his job so much,” he said.
Haitkin is also responsible for three Fast and the Furious movies, two Captain America movies and other action films including Cherry (1980), Last Man Standing (1994), the Expendables (2002), X-Male: First Class (2010), Kong: Skull Island (2018), Black Panther (2013), Venom (2018) andbridge(2011).
Haitkin is A Nightmare on Elm Street ( Director of Photography ) by Wes G. Raven Directed*), and A Nightmare on Elm Street: Freddy’s Revenge (1980), directed by Jack Sholder. He is in Shocker (1985) and Sholder at The Hidden (1989) and buzzer (2000).
Jacques Adam Haitkin Born August in Brooklyn , 29. His father owned a chain of dry cleaners.
At NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, he filmed a -minute video high More hot dogs (1000). Directed by Martin Brest, starring Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman , which landed him a scholarship to the American Film Academy in Los Angeles.
He is The Billion Dollar Hobo (1977) and Cinematographer They Went That-a-Way & That- a-Way (1970), Boxer (1977) and Private Eye (, all four films starred Tim Conway.
His DP resume includes Galaxy of Terror (1982), Evil spirit dwelling (1977), Crazy Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1985), tick (1993), Ham The silence of (1992 ), Blood War 2 (2000), Big Squeeze (1995) and forgotten (818806).
He was diagnosed with ALS in .
In addition to sons Zak and Harry, survivors include his niece Meri Haitkin, who is Top Chef, Project Runway and more. His wife, Anne Coffey, first assistant cameraman (and his assistant on Galaxy of Horror ), died in Age 2017 Colon Cancer.
Jacques Heitkin and he have Late wife, photographer Anne Coffey, in post 1000s-early’59s. by Zak Haitkin
