Willy Rizzo, the Italian photographer renowned for his
images of prominent celebrities, has died in Paris at the age of 84, his studio
has announced.
Brigitte
Bardot, Winston Churchill and Marilyn Monroe were among the many who posed for
him in pictures for such magazines as Paris Match and Life.
Born in Naples
in 1928, he covered the Nuremberg trials after World War II and the first
Cannes Film Festival in 1946.
His friend Jack
Nicholson arranged a role for him in his 1992 film Hoffa.
Rizzo was also
immortalised by Belgian comic book writer Herge, who used him as the
inspiration for "paparazzo" Walter Rizotto in Tintin adventure The
Castafiore Emerald.
Rizzo, who died
in hospital on Monday, was married to Italian actress Elsa Martinelli, star of
such 1960s films as The Trial, The VIPs and The Pigeon That Took Rome.
As well as
taking photos, he also designed furniture for a distinguished clientele that
include the director Otto Preminger and the artist Salvador Dali.
Source: BBC
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