New York Daily News

Anthony Rollo, News photo editor for 40 yrs.

- BY LEONARD GREENE

Anthony Rollo, a photo editor at the Daily News for more than 40 years who selected pictures for nearly every news event from the blackout to 9/11 has died. He was 74.

His family said he died from complicati­ons related to Parkinson’s disease.

His wife, Roseann, died three months earlier.

If they shot it, Rollo (inset) saw it, from pictures of Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz to Yankees parades along the Canyon of Heroes.

Until 1991, The News called itself “New York’s Picture Newspaper,” and Rollo had a hand in most of the iconic covers and many of the pages that followed.

“He loved working at The News,” said Rollo’s son, Anthony. “He was very proud to have worked there. Even though it was an hour and a half to get in there each way, he loved being there.”

It’s likely Rollo got his eye for pictures from his father, a photograph­er for Newsweek magazine, whose footsteps Rollo followed into the news business.

Rollo began working in The News’ photo department in March 1968 until his retirement in May 2010.

He was born on June 25, 1946 in Queens and raised in Long Island’s Meadowmere Park.

Rollo served in the Army during the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1968, as a photo reconnaiss­ance combat engineer.

He was awarded the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal.

After he started his career at The News, Rollo married his wife in 1971, and together they raised two sons and a daughter.

Rollo is survived by his sons, his daughter and four grandchild­ren.

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