Jonas Gricius


Jonas Augustino Gricius was a Lithuanian cinematographer, known for his work on a number of classical films starting from the late 1950s, including Hamlet, The Girl and the Echo, and The Blue Bird.

Biography

In 1954 he graduated from the All-Union Institute of Cinematography, a course by Boris Volchek. He worked at the film studio Lenfilm, as an assistant to director Andrei Moskvin. Since 1958 – Operator of the Lithuanian Film Studio. Secretary of the LSSR Cinematographers' Union, chairman. Director of the Lithuanian Film Studio. Gricius died on 1 February 2021, at the age of 92.