Michael Gershman

Michael Gershman (June 17, 1944 – March 10, 2018) was an American cinematographer, camera operator and television director born in St. Louis, Missouri. He worked in camera crews on films including Days of Heaven, The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate and Brian De Palma's Blow Out, and as a camera operator on Uncommon Valor, Some Kind of Wonderful, Midnight Run, Say Anything... and Falling Down. He became the director of photography of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, receiving a Primetime Emmy nomination for the episode Hush, and also directed episodes of that series and of Crossing Jordan. He died in Malibu, California.