Robert Reed Altman

Altman has served as a camera operator and director of photography on an impressive number of award-winning feature films and television series since the maverick days of American filmmaking in the 1970s. The son of legendary filmmaker Robert Altman and Kathryn Reed, Robert Reed Altman grew up with a passion for film in his blood. Altman began his career serving as assistant camera on the films that would catapult the elder Altman into the pantheon of great American directors: Nashville (1975), Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), A Wedding (1978)_, _Popeye (1979)_, HealtH (1980), Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), Streamers (1983), and Fool for Love (1985). Many of these films, now considered classics, also garnered critical praise, including numerous Academy Awards for Nashville (1975). Following this succession of Hollywood hits, Altman shifted gears and gravitated to television, where he served as camera operator on the accl