Edmund DiGiulio (June 13, 1927 - June 4, 2004) was an Academy Award winning camera innovator. Ed DiGiulio was born on June 13, 1927 in the USA as Edmund DiGiulio. Came up with the name "Steadicam" for Garrett Brown's camera stabilizer system. Brown originally wanted to call it "the Brown Stabilizer."
DiGiulio is known for his work on Barry Lyndon (1975), Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) and The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978). He was married to Louise DiGiulio.
Edmund DiGiulio died of congestive heart failure on June 4, 2004 in Malibu, California. He is interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California.
Variety Obituary
June 8, 2004
Ed DiGiulio
Academy Award-winning camera innovator
Camera innovator and multiple Academy Award winner Edmund M. DiGiulio died June 4 in Malibu of congestive heart failure. He was 76.
Memorial services will be held at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary, 1218 Glendon Avenue, Westwood Village, on Saturday, June 12 at 1 p.m.
Although DiGiulio started his career at IBM after graduating from Columbia U. in 1950, it wasn’t long before he applied his engineering background in optics and electronics to the motion picture industry at Mitchell Camera Corp. DiGiulio developed a reflex viewing system for the Mitchell BNC camera for which he received an Engineering and Scientific Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, as well as the System-35 Mark II camera with video assist and camera control unit for three-camera filming used by d.p. Ozzie Morris in “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off.”
In 1968, DiGiulio founded Cinema Products, where he developed widely used TV newsfilm cameras. At Cinema Product, DiGiulio developed the Steadicam, a motion picture camera stabilization system worn by a camera operator, for which he, along with inventor Garrett Brown and Cinema Products’ engineering staff, won an Oscar in 1978.
DiGiulio worked on specialized projects with director Stanley Kubrick on all his movies from “A Clockwork Orange” on, including the special ultra-high-speed lenses DiGiulio developed for the candlelit scenes in “Barry Lyndon.”
He was a Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers; a Fellow of the British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society; a longtime member, and five-time chairman, of AMPAS’ Scientific and Technical Awards Committee; and an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers.
He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Louise; a daughter; and a granddaughter.
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