Baird Bryant, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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cinematographer
Date of Birth: 12-Dec-1927
Place of Birth: Columbus, Indiana, United States
Date of Death: 13-Nov-2008
Profession: cinematographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Baird Bryant
- Wenzell Baird Bryant was an American filmmaker, b.
- (Columbus, Indiana, December 12, 1927 – d.
- Hemet, California, November 13, 2008).
- Baird Bryant, as he was known, was well known in documentary circles for his hand-held ability to almost instantaneously capture live action as it was happening.
- Hired as the cameraman on the Albert Maysles film of the Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter, Baird caught on-camera the fatal stabbing of concertgoer Meredith Hunter by Hells Angel Alan Passaro at the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969. As a cinematographer, Bryant also worked on Easy Rider(1969), filming the famous LSD scene with Dennis Hopper in a New Orleans cemetery.
- He also shot footage for the Academy Award-winning film, Broken Rainbow (1985). Baird began his filmmaking career in the early sixties shooting The Seducers(1962), The Greenwich Village Story (1963), The Cool World(1963) and many others.
- Later he also shot Celebration at Big Sur(1971), Heart of Tibet(1991) adding to his long filmmaking résumé.
- Never one to rest on his laurels, Baird worked in numerous capacities on both documentaries and features from to doing production sound to writing to producing.
- In the 1950s Baird lived in Paris and was a writer, living with William S.
- Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac'.
- Bryant wrote ‘Play This Love With Me (1955).
- He also wrote the first translation of Pauline Réage's erotic novel Story of O.
- In 1973 Baird spent the summer teaching film-making at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
- He was co-producing, with Wendy Girard, and shooting a documentary on environmental solutions when he died. He attended Deep Springs College in Big Pine, California, and graduated from Harvard University.
- He was fluent in French and was a life-long practicing Tibetan Buddhist.
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