Ron Taylor, the Australian marine conservationist who filmed some of the underwater shark footage used in the film Jaws, has died of cancer, a close family friend said.
Taylor, 78, who had leukemia for two years, died on Sunday at a hospital in Sydney, said Andrew Fox, who worked with Taylor on shark conservation for decades.
He said Taylor had mixed feelings about his work on Jaws, which terrified beachgoers but ultimately helped draw attention to the intimidating yet often threatened animals.
Taylor and his wife, Valerie, spent years filming great white sharks and trying to persuade a wary public that they were beautiful creatures worthy of respect. Their up-close images of sharks drew the attention of director Steven Spielberg, who asked the couple to capture footage of a great white for his 1975 blockbuster.
The Taylors shot much of the sequence in which the shark tears apart a cage holding one of the main characters.
Continued: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/10/jaws-shark-cameraman-ron-taylor-dies
Taylor, 78, who had leukemia for two years, died on Sunday at a hospital in Sydney, said Andrew Fox, who worked with Taylor on shark conservation for decades.
He said Taylor had mixed feelings about his work on Jaws, which terrified beachgoers but ultimately helped draw attention to the intimidating yet often threatened animals.
Taylor and his wife, Valerie, spent years filming great white sharks and trying to persuade a wary public that they were beautiful creatures worthy of respect. Their up-close images of sharks drew the attention of director Steven Spielberg, who asked the couple to capture footage of a great white for his 1975 blockbuster.
The Taylors shot much of the sequence in which the shark tears apart a cage holding one of the main characters.
Continued: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/10/jaws-shark-cameraman-ron-taylor-dies
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