John Bartley dead: Award-winning Hollywood cameraman who worked on The X-Files dies

Close friend of the cameraman John Bartley, who won an Emmy Award, has revealed that he passed away at the age of 78.

The X-Files-starring New Zealand-born cinematographer passed away on Sunday in Los Angeles. The tragic news was confirmed on social media by his friend Polly Pierce.

The Australian filmmaker reported that John S. Bartley, my long-time mentor and dear friend, has passed away. “I wouldn’t be in film if it weren’t for John and his groundbreaking work on @thexfilestv.”

For his contributions to the well-known series, John received three ASC Award nominations and two Primetime Emmy nominations, including the 1996 Emmy for the episode “Grotesque.”

For Lost and Bates Motel episodes, he received more Emmy nominations. The cinematographer was a theatre cashier and a career military officer in Wellington, New Zealand.

When John was 12 years old, his father abruptly passed away at the age of 53. John and his brother would spend the next two years with their mother at the office, where they would sit until she finished her shift.

They were occasionally permitted to watch musical performances on stage. Only one channel was available to the population in his city when broadcast television first started broadcasting in 1960.

“I was fascinated by movies. We used to go to the theater on school trips, John said.

After graduating from high school, John began working as a lighting director for theater and television.

In 2011, John said, “I was really lucky. Two station lighting technicians taught me what I needed to know about television, even though I had no idea what it was. I learned how to use light to bring out black-and-white tones in televisions to help tell stories. In those days, television was black-and-white.

Two years after moving to Canada, he soon met filmmakers at the rental house William F. White International, Inc.

John then worked on The X Files’ I Want to Believe, Odd Girl Out, Another Life, The Chronicles of Riddick, Wrong Turn, Echo, Another Stakeout, Disturbing Behaviour, and more.

He is credited with producing The Good Doctors, Vikings, Los, Roswell, Wu Assassins, 21 Jump Street, and Booker for television.

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Source: Mirror