Biography

Vincent G. Cox was born on October 17, 1933 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Hotel Rwanda (2004), Voice in the Dark (1990) and I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979). He died on July 30, 2017.

Admitted to the American Society of Cinematographers in 1977.

He is a renowned South African cinematographer and a creator of many memorable images in that country's long cinema history, such as the haunting shot of the setting sun in Jans Rautenbach's Katrina (1969), the crash dive of the hungry seagulls in Wild Season (1967), the horrific crash scene in My Way (1972) and the eerie, mist-laden final killing in the Knysna forests in Ongewenste Vreemdeling (1974).