Richard M. Rawlings Jr., the four-time Emmy Award-nominated cinematographer who cut the episodes for the series’ third season Charlie’s Angels With his father and they filmed other shows such as Houston died, Los Angeles Law, Boston Public and Desperate HousewivesHe died. He was 82 years old.
Rawlings Jr. died on June 30 in Flagstaff, Arizona, his family announced.
His father, Richard L. Rawlings, a two-time Emmy-nominated cinematographer, and their careers overlapped in 1978-79 on ABC. Charlie’s Angelswith each of them handling half of that season’s 22 episodes.
When his father left the series, producer Aaron Spelling drafted him in to serve as the lead director on the new series. strainRawlings Jr. continued Charlie’s Angels For the final two seasons until June 1981.
In February 2014, he received the Television Career Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers, and Charlie’s Angels Star Cheryl Ladd was present for the occasion. “This talented man did his best for years to make me look good,” she said.
Richard Maxwell Rawlings Jr. was born in Hollywood on October 9, 1943. His father filmed the neo-noir classic for Don Siegel. Assassins (1964) but worked mostly in television, filming multiple episodes of shows such as Highway Patrol, Home Run Derby, Bat Masterson, Sea fishing, Gilligan’s Island, Wild West, Doris Day Show, Kung fu Starring Kate Jackson The Scarecrow and Mrs. King.
Rawlings Jr. grew up in North Hollywood and spent many summers as a teenager at Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana, before graduating from Ulysses S. Grant High School in 1961.
He began working a year later as a messenger at Warner Bros. Records. He soon worked for his father as an assistant camera operator Gilligan’s Island and Doris Day Show. He told ASC that those concerts were “the most important of my career. In his patient way, [his father] He passed on his great knowledge of lighting and composition to me. (He was known as “The Apprentice” to many in the industry.)
The younger Rawlings continued his work as an operator on shows including Blue Knight, And Tunisia and Eight is enough. When he first appeared as cinematographer in the seventh episode of Charlie’s Angelswhich aired on November 1, 1978, he had just turned 35 and is believed to have been one of the youngest participants in Hollywood history.
(Rawlings Sr. got his start on Spelling by filming all 24 episodes of the second season. His son filmed 52 episodes, so for those keeping score, the duo filmed 87 of the series’ 109 episodes.)
Rawlings Jr. then moved on to two more Spelling-produced shows at ABC, starring Robert Stack Strike force For Lee Horsley’s only and starring 1981-82 season Houston died For three seasons from 1982 to 1985.
He received his Emmy Award nominations in 1988 for his work on the ABC police procedural O’HaraStarring Pat Morita; In 1989 l heavenstarring CBS Western Horsley; in 1993 for the NBC police drama Reasonable doubtsStarring Mark Harmon and Marlee Matlin; In 1995 for Big Dreams, Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Storya CBS television movie starring Michelle Lee as the country singer.
He also spent a season (1993-1994) on NBC Los Angeles LawParts of three seasons (2000-2004) on ABC Boston Public and parts of two seasons (2005-2007) on ABC Desperate Housewives Episodes were filmed Stingray, Square pegs, Chicago Hope and Gilmore Girls also.
Survivors include his daughter, Kami. His son died. his grandchildren, Chase and Wyatt; and his sisters, Carol and Colleen. His wife, Diane, whom he married in 1967, died in 2003.
