It was announced by a spokesperson from the ICG (International Cinematographers guild-Local 600), that cinematographer and Emmy winner George Spiro Dibie has died at his home in L.A. He was 90. Th…
andFor his work, Dibie received a Television Career Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers and the Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Camera Operators in 2008.
Two years later, Spiro sat down for a chat with the Television Academy Foundation website where Dibie described his work as a cinematographer on sitcoms. “You are in charge of the look. Especially the technical look more than anything,” he said. “You report to the director. I want to add that it’s a collaboration — the director, cinematographer, production designer — these are the guys who are responsible for the look … The director directs us, and I bring his vision to the screen — what he has on the brain, how he wants it to look. I do that for him.
For 20-years Dibie served as president of the ICG, and current President John Lindley gave a statement on the cinematographer, “The numbers fail to accurately tally the thousands of lives he touched both at his work on sets and through his leadership of Local 600.”