Willard Van Dyke

Willard Van Dyke December 5 1906 January 23 1986 was an American filmmaker photographer arts administrator teacher and former director of the film department at the Museum of Modern Art Van Dyke went to the University of California dropping out for a time to avoid taking an ROTC course Van Dyke died in January 23 1986 of a heart attack on his way to Cambridge Mass where he was named Laureate Artist in Residence at Harvard He was 79 years old Van Dyke is survived by his second wife the former Barbara Millikin of New York a daughter Alison Van Dyke of Ithaca NY three sons Peter of New York City Murray of Santa Fe and Neil of Stowe Vt and six grandchildren Description above from the Wikipedia article Willard Van Dyke licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia