Albert Bettcher was an American cameraman.

Born in Chicago, Bettcher served with the 168th Signal Photographic Company during World War II. In 1946, he filmed the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal in the Philippines.

Back in the U.S., Bettcher started out in the still lab at Columbia Pictures, where he worked for seven years before breaking in as an assistant cameraman on Over-Exposed (1956). He assisted for nine years before advancing to operator.

Bettcher shot 34 installments of ABC's Batman during its first season in 1966 and did the movie that was released later that summer. Other television work includes The Bill Cosby Show (in the early 1970s) and The Waltons.

During his nearly 50-year career in Hollywood, Bettcher also trained his lens on Kim Novak in Pal Joey (1957), Jeanne Eagels (1957) and Bell Book and Candle (1958), on Dick Van Dyke and Ann-Margret in Bye Bye Birdie (1963), on Jessica Lange and a giant ape in King Kong (1976) and on William Hurt and Kathleen Turner in Body Heat (1981).

Bettcher died December 21, 2017, in Pasadena, California. He was 97.