Biography
Robby Müller was a Dutch cinematographer. He was born on 4 April 1940 in Willemstad, Curaçao, and died on 3 July 2018 in Amsterdam. He studied at the Netherlands Film Academy and began his career as an apprentice to cinematographer Gerard Vandenberg.
Müller gained recognition through his long collaboration with Wim Wenders, beginning with the short Alabama: 2000 Light Years (1969) and the feature Summer in the City (1970). Their joint films include Alice in the Cities (1974), Kings of the Road (1976), The American Friend (1977) and Paris, Texas (1984). He later worked extensively with Jim Jarmusch on Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) and Coffee and Cigarettes (2004), and with Lars von Trier on Breaking the Waves (1996) and Dancer in the Dark (2000). Other credits include Repo Man (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985).
He received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Dead Man and Breaking the Waves (both 1996) and the American Society of Cinematographers International Award in 2013.
