Biography
Michel Hugo (13 January 1930 – 12 October 2010) was a French-American cinematographer. Born in Paris, he joined the French Resistance during the Second World War and later served in the French Army, where he began working in the camera department. He moved to the United States in the 1960s and became a naturalised American citizen in 1960.
Hugo worked as director of photography on the television series Mission: Impossible from 1967. His other television credits include The Streets of San Francisco, Dynasty (126 episodes, 1981–1989) and Melrose Place (1992–1996). He also shot feature films such as Head (1968), Model Shop (1969) and The Octagon (1980). He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for cinematography on the 1978 miniseries The Awakening Land and was a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
From 2001 he taught in the film department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
