Career
He worked on numerous classic films, including Gable and Lombard, Brewster McCloud, Stop Making Sense and Altered States, but is perhaps best known for Blade Runner. Cronenweth was diagnosed with Parkinson"s disease in 1978. He continued working despite pain for 13 years.
Cronenweth was initially hired as the director of photography for the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension but halfway through production producers replaced him with Fred J. Koenekamp.
He was also replaced two weeks into the production of Alien³ after falling ill, and died in 1996. A 2003 poll of his peers conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild placed Cronenweth among the ten most influential cinematographers of all time.