Great grief in Hollywood: Leon Gast is dead. The all-rounder has worked as a director, producer and photographer since the 1960s. For his documentary “Rumble in the Jungle”, in which he opposed the heavyweight world championship boxing match of Muhammad Ali (✝74) George Foreman (72) documented, he was even awarded an Oscar in 1996. But now the sad news of Leons Death announced.
As the organizers of the Woodstock Film Festival announced in an official statement, passed away Leon last Monday at his home in Woodstock, New York. Further details are not known. Compared to the branch journal Hollywood Reporter But documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple also confirmed the death of her good friend. Leon was 85 years old.
In addition to his work as a director, the American also achieved great fame as a photographer for Vogue, Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar magazines in the 1960s and 1970s. His last film “Manny” was released in 2014 – it was a portrait of the professional boxer Manny Pacquiao.
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