SKIPSEY Eric
Born Athol Eric George John Skipsey.
Date of birth : July 14, 1919, Canterbury, England.
Profession photographer .
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He served as an enlisted man with the Royal Army Service Corps during the early days of World War II.
After the war he moved to Canada where he opened his first studio in Vancouver.
Known as one of Canada's most prominent portraitists and fashion photographers, he moved to Los Angeles in
1956 to continue his work in the motion picture industry ().
Among the stars he photographed were Elizabeth Taylor (), Greer Garson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Tony
Curtis (), Loretta Young (), Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Jimmy Stewart,
Ingrid Bergman (), Jayne Mansfield (), Rita Hayworth ().
On June 14, 1969, he married Frances Lilian Hawkes (December 23, 1915, Boston-November 18, 1993, Santa Barbara) in San Francisco.
Link with Marilyn
he took Marilyn in picture with her dog Maf at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1961.