Biography
Richard H. Kline was an American cinematographer. Born in Los Angeles on 15 November 1926, he was the son of cinematographer Benjamin H. Kline and the nephew of ASC co-founder Phil Rosen and cinematographer Sol Halperin.
Kline began working in the camera department at Columbia Pictures in 1943 after high school. He became a director of photography in 1963 and accumulated 46 feature credits. His work includes Hang 'em High (1968), The Andromeda Strain (1971), Soylent Green (1973), Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), the 1976 remake of King Kong, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and Body Heat (1981). He received Academy Award nominations for Camelot (1967) and King Kong (1976), and the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
Kline died of natural causes in Los Angeles on 7 August 2018.
