Cinematographer Of Ben Hur, Oklahoma!, The Graduate a Tri-State Native

Robert Surtees Shot Over 100 Films In A Career Spanning 48 Years

If you have ever seen the 1959 film Ben Hur, then you are familiar with the epic chariot race scene, a scene that took five months to shoot in Italy. The scene is still considered one of the greatest sequences in film history.

And it was shot by a former basketball/football star at Withrow High School named Robert L. Surtees.

Suretees was born on August 9…