- Date Of Birth: November 23, 1943
- Date Of Death: February 21, 2021
- Occupation: Cinematographer, film producer and director
- City: Los Angeles
- State: California
Judy Irola (November 23, 1943 – February 21, 2021) was an American cinematographer, film producer, and director. The third woman accepted into the American Society of Cinematographers, she was a head of the cinematography department at USC School of Cinematic Arts for 15 years and held the Conrad Hall Chair in Cinematography there. She co-founded a National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians branch in San Francisco in 1969, and was a founding member of the short-lived Cine Manifest film collective in 1972.
Irola died from COVID-19 complications in Los Angeles on February 21, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in California. She was 77. – Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License from Wikipedia.
