Willard Van der Veer

Willard Van der Veer (August 23, 1894 – June 16, 1963) was an American cinematographer who won an Academy Award at the 3rd Academy Awards for Best Cinematography for the film With Byrd at the South Pole[1][2] with Joseph T. Rucker.

He started his career as a documentary cameraman and later did a couple episodes of Maverick and the film The Crawling Hand.

Mount Van der Veer was named after him.

He is the father of Frank Van der Veer, a Hollywood visual effects artist who founded Van Der Veer Photo Effects and won, in 1977, a Special Achievement Academy Award for the 1976 version of King Kong (this Oscar was shared with Carlo Rambaldi and Glen Robinson[3]).

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