Baird Bryant
Cinematographer, Author
1927 – 2008
Who was Baird Bryant?
Wenzell Baird Bryant was an American filmmaker. He is best known as the cameraman on the Albert Maysles film Gimme Shelter who filmed the fatal stabbing of Rolling Stones concertgoer Meredith Hunter by Hells Angel Alan Passaro at the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969.
As a cinematographer, Bryant also worked on Easy Rider, filming the famous LSD scene with Dennis Hopper in a New Orleans cemetery. He was also a writer, living in 1950s Paris with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac and writing Play This Love With Me pseudonymously. He also wrote the first translation of Pauline Réage's erotic novel Story of O.
He studied at Deep Springs College and Harvard University.
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- Born
- Dec 12, 1927
Columbus - Also known as
- Wenzell Baird Bryant
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Deep Springs College
- Died
- Nov 13, 2008
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on July 23, 2013
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