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Biography
Marcia Ann Reed (born 1948 in Los Angeles) is a motion picture photographer based in Los Angeles and the first woman unit still photographer to join the International Cinematographers Guild in 1973 as well as the first woman to win a Society of Operating Cameramen Lifetime Achievement Award ](Still Photographer) in 2000.
She has worked on over 50 motion picturesincluding: Leap of Faith (1992), LA Story ( 1991), Turner & Hooch (1989), Pink Cadillac(1989), The Dead Pool (1988), Bird (1998), The Seventh Sign (1988), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Ratboy (1986), Pale Rider (1985), Heartbeeps (1981), Ordinary People (1980), The Muppet Movie (1979), Comes a Horseman (1978), The Gauntlet (1977), The Enforcer (1976), The Last Tycoon (1976) and Rhinoceros (1974). Marcia Reed has one Visual Effects Credit as a still photographer in 1977 for Close Encounters of the Third Kind where she is listed as Marcia Reid.
Marcia Reed has done work in the Caribbean, Canada, Greece, China and Italy as well as all over the United States.
Early life
Marcia Ann Reed, known professionally as Marcia Reed, was born in 1948 at Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles. She is the only child of Josefina Flores and Paul "Dean" Reed. Her mother was a pilot with the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) based out of Tucson, during World War II. Her father, (who worked as P. Dean Reed)was a television engineer and unit production manager on television shows. She attended Grant High School (Los Angeles) in Valley Glen, California and was one of the first female students to take a photography class which led to her interest in becoming a professional photographer.
Higher Education & Early Career
After high school, Marcia applied to the prestigious Art Center College of Design and was one of the first women accepted into the Photography Program to graduate. For her final assignment, prior to graduating in 1970, Marcia created a Style Book on behind-the-scenes of a typical television production which led to her being offered a chance to be a non-union production photographer for the local television networks beginning in 1971. At that time, she also began working for Lucille Ball at Desilu Studios on a variety of productions.
By March 2, 1973, Marcia Reed had her first movie assignment working on the set of the film "Rhinoceros" with Gene Wilder, Zero Mostel and Director Tom O'Horgan. It was to be the first of two films working with Gene Wilder (the other was Another You with Richard Pryor). Rhinoceros (film) , released in 1974, was the first film ever to have a woman as the union still photographer.