Gary B. Kibbe

Born on January 9, 1941 in Glendale, a city in Los Angeles County, his father already belonged to the Hollywood scene, as he worked in special effects at Hal Roach studios. “Once he took me to the set of The Gale Storm Show when I was very small. I grabbed the wheels of the camera, which released a spark,” he commented in an interview in which he confessed that since then he was very clear that his thing was the cinema.

After graduating from high school, Gary B. Kibbe joined the Warner Bros. staff from the bottom up, first as a mail deliverer. Then they assigned him to the camera department. His first film as an operator was  Tonight we go to war , from 1970 . Titles like Coffy (1973), Convoy (1978), The Hollywood Knights (1980), and the teen film classic  Sixteen Candles (1984) followed.

He began his journey with John Carpenter in 1981, with Halloween II. The Witch’s Day , followed by Heist in Little China , The Prince of Darkness , They Live , In the Mouth of Fear , Village of the Damned , 2013: Ransom in LA , Vampires , and Ghosts of Mars . Also in two chapters of the series Body Bags, body bag, from 1993. “He was a kind man and a great collaborator,” declared the director specializing in horror films upon learning of his death. “He had an innate ability to light scenes better than anyone, he was like a painter.” Between 1987 and 2001 he just stood in for William A. Fraker in Memoirs of an Invisible Man .

During that period,  Gary B. KibbeHe had time to work for other filmmakers, on titles like  Alien 3 , A Few Good Men , and Double Dragon .