It’s with sadness that we report the passing of longtime John Carpenter collaborator and cinematographer Gary B. Kibbe.
According to Halloween director Carpenter’s official Twitter account, Kibbe was 79 years of age at the time of his passing.
Born January 9, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, Kibbe got his start in film working as a camera operator on several features in the 1970s, with his first Carpenter collaboration coming in 1981 by way of Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween II (which Carpenter produced), and his second on 1986’s Big Trouble in Little China, which Carpenter directed. Kibbe would later go on to photograph the majority of Carpenter’s films produced since the mid-1980s, including Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), Body Bags (1993), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Village of the Damned (1995), Escape from L.A. (1996), Vampires (1998), Ghosts of Mars (2001).
Further credits as a cinematographer include 1984’s Sixteen Candles, 1986’s Stand by Me, the 1992 Tales from the Crypt episode “King of the Road,” and additional photography on 1996’s The Crow: City of Angels.
Our sincerest condolences to Kibbe’s friends and family from everyone here at HalloweenMovies.com.
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l-to-r: Gary B. Kibbe, John Carpenter & Roddy Piper on the set of They Live (Photo Credit: Cinephilia & Beyond)