Haskell Boggs

{{Short description|American cinematographer (1909–2003)}}

{{Infobox person

|name = Haskell B. Boggs

|birth_name = Haskell Buster Boggs

|birth_date = {{birth date|1909|04|17}}

|birth_place = Jones, Oklahoma, U.S.

|death_date = {{death date and age|2003|05|30|1909|04|17}}

|death_place = Burbank, California, U.S.

|occupation = Cinematographer

|alma mater = University of Southern California{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/452730686/|title=Oklahoman created a place in Hollywood|work=The Daily Oklahoman|location=Oklahoma City, Oklahoma|date=June 13, 2003|access-date=September 19, 2021|page=63|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}

|spouse = Evelyn Sullivan

|children = 1

}}

Haskell Buster Boggs (April 17, 1909 – May 30, 2003) was an American cinematographer.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ioxxeZ4139MC&pg=PA80|title=Shot in Oklahoma: A Century of Sooner State Cinema|pages=80–81|first=John|last=Wooley|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|date=October 9, 2012|isbn=9780806184074|via=Google Books}}

Boggs worked on many of Jerry Lewis' early solo films including The Delicate Delinquent (1957), Rock-A-Bye Baby, The Geisha Boy (both 1958), Don't Give Up the Ship (1959), The Bellboy and Cinderfella (both 1960). He was fired by Lewis over a disagreement during The Ladies Man (1961).{{AFI film|18715|The Ladies Man}} He returned to cinematography replacing Milton Krasner on Red Line 7000 (1965){{AFI film|19639|Red Line 7000}} but made just one additional theatrical film, Young Fury (1965), before moving into television.

He was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards in the category Outstanding Cinematography for his work on the television program Bonanza and the television film Where Pigeons Go to Die.{{Cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/news/haskell-boggs-asc-cameras-classics|title=Haskell Boggs, ASC Cameras on Classics|work=Television Academy|date=August 19, 2009|access-date=September 19, 2021}}

Boggs died in May 2003 of heart disease in Burbank, California, at the age of 94.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aSUfwQEACAAJ|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2003|first=Harris|last=Lentz|pages=39–40|publisher=McFarland|date=April 20, 2004|isbn=9780786417568 |via=Google Books}} He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.