Jonas Gricius
Jonas Gricius (5 August 1928 – 1 February 2021) was a Lithuanian cinematographer. He was known for his work on many classic movies, beginning in the 1950s. His best known movie works were in Hamlet, The Girl and the Echo, and The Blue Bird.
Gricius died on 1 February 2021, at the age of 92.[1]
Bio
In 1954 he graduated from the All-Union Institute of Cinematography, a course by Boris Volchek. He worked at the film studio Lenfilm, as an assistant to director Andrei Moskvin. Since 1958 – Operator of the Lithuanian Film Studio (LKS). Secretary of the LSSR Cinematographers' Union (1963–1968), chairman (1981–1988). Director of the Lithuanian Film Studio (1978–1989). Gricius died on 1 February 2021, at the age of 92.[2]