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Chuck Close
Deceased

How Did Chuck Close Die?

Life & Death

Died aged 80
GenderMaleNationalityUnited StatesBorn05/07/1941Born inMonroe, Washington, USADied19/08/2021 (aged 80)Died inOceansideCauseheart failureWikidataQ453883 ↗TMDb#1025257 ↗

Charles Thomas Close was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very large format camera. He adapted his painting style and working methods in 1988, after being paralyzed by an occlusion of the anterior spinal artery.

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Filmography3 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2013UlayMovieHimself72
2010Smash His CameraMovieSelf69
1993Six Degrees of SeparationMovieAndy52