David Keighley, the first chief quality officer for Imax and a veteran of the large-format cinema platform for more than 50 years, has died. He was 77.

Keighley died Thursday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York after a battle with neuroendocrine prostate cancer, he son Geoff Keighley told The Hollywood Reporter .

During his career, he helped Imax migrate from showing mainly institutional movies to digitally reformatting Hollywood titles for the local multiplex and fanboy audiences.

David Keighley, the first chief quality officer for Imax and a veteran of the large-format cinema platform for more than 50 years, has died. He was 77.

Keighley died Thursday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York after a battle with neuroendocrine prostate cancer, he s

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