Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticKent L. Wakeford, a cinematographer who served as Martin Scorsese’s director of photographer on the groundbreaking 1973 film Mean Streets and the following year’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, died Oct.
10 at Motion Picture Film & Television Fund’s Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hills, California. He was 92.His death was announced by his family, who noted that he died peacefully.
No cause of death was specified.Wakeford began his career in the 1950s, working as a freelance cameraman for the 1958 TV series Danger is My Business.
Continuing his work in TV and film, Wakeford made his major impact when Scorsese hired him on Mean Streets, the gritty, groundbreaking drama about small-time hoods in Lower.
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