Daviau, director of photography for 'ET' dead

(ANSA) - NEW YORK, APRIL 17 - Hollywood again in mourning the coronavirus epidemic: Oscar-nominated cinematographer director Allen Daviau died of complications after being infected.
    Daviau, who was 77, had worked with StevenSpielberg and Barry Levinson on films such as "ET", "Empire of the Sun" and "Bugsy". His disappearance was announced by the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, where the filmmaker lived after a surgery that in 2012 had forced him into a wheelchair, the fourth victim that the virus took away among the residents of the nursing home .
    Daviau had known Spielberg in 1967: in addition to "ET" in 1982, the two had collaborated on "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Il Viola Viola". With Levinson he worked, as well as in "Bugsy" of 1991, for "Avalon" of the previous year. (HANDLE).