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Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera (the art and science of which is known as cinematography). The title is generally equivalent to director of photography (DP), used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving...
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George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the epic sci-fi franchise Star Wars and joint creator of the archaeologist...
Date of birth:
- May 14, 1944 (age 65 years)
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization...
Date of birth:
- Mar 27, 1963 (age 46 years)
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodríguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as...
Date of birth:
- Jun 20, 1968 (age 41 years)
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American director, writer, producer, and photographer of films, who lived in England during most of the last 40 years of his career. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1928
Date of death:
- Mar 7, 1999 (age 70 years)
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh (born January 14, 1963) is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing the films Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 14, 1963 (age 46 years)
William Dickson
William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a French-Anglo-Scottish inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison (post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince).
Dickson was born on 3...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1860
Date of death:
- Sep 28, 1935 (age 75 years)
Nicolas Roeg
Nicolas Jack Roeg, BSC (born 15 August 1928 in London) is an English film director and cinematographer. Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, and co-directing Performance, he would...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1928 (age 81 years)
Ricou Browning
Ricou Browning (born February 16, 1930) is an American film director, actor, producer and underwater cinematographer and action specialist.
Browning was born in Fort Pierce, Florida and was a physical education major at Florida State University. He...
Date of birth:
- Feb 16, 1930 (age 79 years)
Billy Bitzer
Gottfried Wilhelm "Billy" Bitzer (b.April 21, 1874, Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts, d.April 29, 1944) was a pioneering cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith, working with him on some of his most important films and...
Date of birth:
- Apr 21, 1872
Date of death:
- Apr 29, 1944 (age 72 years)
George Stevens
George Stevens (December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer.
Among his most notable films were Diary of Anne Frank (1959), nominated for Best Director, Giant (1956), winner of Oscar...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1904
Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1975 (age 70 years)
Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou (born November 14, 1951) is an internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker and former cinematographer, and one of the best known of the Fifth Generation of Chinese film directors. He made his directorial debut in 1987 with the film Red...
Date of birth:
- Nov 14, 1951 (age 58 years)
Victor Fleming
Victor Fleming (February 23, 1889 – January 6, 1949) (sometimes "Vic Fleming") was an Academy Award-winning American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Gone with the Wind (1939),...
Date of birth:
- Feb 23, 1889
Date of death:
- Jan 6, 1949 (age 59 years)
Conrad L. Hall
Conrad Lafcadio Hall, ASC (June 21, 1926 – January 4, 2003) was an American cinematographer from Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing films, such as Morituri,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 21, 1926
Date of death:
- Jan 4, 2003 (age 76 years)
Ron Fricke
Ron Fricke is an American film director and cinematographer, considered to be a master of time-lapse photography and large format cinematography. He was the director of photography for Koyaanisqatsi (1982) and directed the purely cinematic non...
Russ Meyer
Russell Albion Meyer (March 21, 1922 - September 18, 2004) was an American motion picture director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, actor and photographer.
Meyer is known primarily for writing and directing a series of successful...
Date of birth:
- Mar 21, 1922
Date of death:
- Sep 18, 2004 (age 82 years)
Kazuo Miyagawa
Kazuo Miyagawa (宮川 一夫, Miyagawa Kazuo, February 25, 1908—August 7, 1999) is generally recognized as having been one of the finest Japanese cinematographers.
Miyagawa is best known for his superbly refined tracking shots, particularly those in...
Date of birth:
- 1908
Date of death:
- 1999 (age 91 years)
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO, RDI, (born 7 March 1930) is an English photographer and Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who sits in the House of Lords by a life peerage granted him in 1999. He was married...
Date of birth:
- Mar 7, 1930 (age 79 years)
Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld (born 1 April 1953) is an American filmmaker and television director. He worked as cinematographer for the Coen Brothers, then later he directed and produced big budget films such as Men in Black.
Sonnenfeld was born and raised in...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1953 (age 56 years)
Andrew Lesnie
Andrew Lesnie (born 1956) is an Australian cinematographer. Lesnie attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS), graduating in 1979. His first job after graduation was as a cameraman on the Logie Award-winning Australian magazine...
Date of birth:
- 1956 (age 54 years)
Robert Downey Sr.
Robert John Downey Sr. (born Robert John Elias, Jr. in 1937) is an American actor, writer, film director and father of actor Robert Downey, Jr. He is known as the director and writer of the cult classic feature film Putney Swope, a biting satire on...
Date of birth:
- 1937 (age 73 years)
Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle (simplified Chinese: 杜可风; traditional Chinese: 杜可風; pinyin: Dù Kě Fēng; born 2 May 1952) is a highly acclaimed, AFI Award-winning cinematographer, known for his use of extreme angles and vanguard color grading. He has won, amongst...
Date of birth:
- May 2, 1952 (age 57 years)
Janusz Kamiński
Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński, ASC (born June 27, 1959), better known as Janusz Kamiński, is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has photographed all of Steven Spielberg's films since 1993's Schindler's List.
Kamiński was born in Ziębice,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 27, 1959 (age 50 years)
John Hanson
John Hanson is an American cinematographer and movie director. His film Northern Lights won the Caméra d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival of 1979.
Grant Gee
Grant Gee is a film director and cinematographer currently living in Brighton. He was born in Plymouth and studied Geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is most noted for his documentary...
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss (born 17 October 1966) is an English actor, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen, and is one of only three people to have both written for and acted in Doctor Who.
Gatiss was...
Date of birth:
- Oct 17, 1966 (age 43 years)
Lance Acord
Lance Acord, A.S.C. (born September 9, 1964) is an American cinematographer.
Acord was born in Marin County, California. He attended Sir Francis Drake High School's School Within A School (S.W.A.S.) program and went on to study photography and...
Date of birth:
- Sep 9, 1964 (age 45 years)
Russell Boyd
Russell Boyd (born April 21, 1944) is an Academy Award-winning Australian cinematographer. He rose to prominence with his highly-praised work on Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), the first of several collaborations with director Peter Weir. He is also...
Date of birth:
- Apr 21, 1944 (age 65 years)
Lynne Ramsay
Lynne Ramsay (born 5 December 1969) is an award-winning Scottish film director, best known for the feature films Ratcatcher and Morvern Callar.
Born in Glasgow on 5 December 1969, Ramsay graduated from the UK's National Film and Television School in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 5, 1969 (age 40 years)
Gregg Toland
Gregg Toland, A.S.C. (May 29, 1904 - September 26, 1948) was a highly influential American cinematographer noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles'...
Date of birth:
- May 29, 1904
Date of death:
- Sep 26, 1948 (age 44 years)
Dennis Lewiston
Dennis C. Lewiston or Denis Lewiston (b. May 22, 1934 London England) is a cinematographer and former camera operator with a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s. He has worked mostly on American television movies. He has occasionally worked...
Date of birth:
- May 22, 1934 (age 75 years)
Garrett Brown
Garrett Brown (native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) an American cinematographer, best known as the inventor of the Steadicam. Brown's invention allows cameramen to film while walking without the normal shaking and jostles of a handheld camera. The...
A. A. Englander
Adolf Arthur Englander (15 July 1915 – 29 January 2004) was a British television cinematographer. He was one of the first film cameraman to work seriously in the field of television in the UK, which for much of its early period almost exclusively...
Date of birth:
- Jul 15, 1915
Date of death:
- Jan 29, 2004 (age 88 years)
James Miller
James Henry Dominic Miller (18 December 1968 - 2 May 2003) was a Welsh cameraman, producer, and director, and recipient of numerous awards, including five Emmy Awards. He often worked with Saira Shah with whom he founded and operated an independent...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1968
Date of death:
- May 2, 2003 (age 34 years)
Neal Fredericks
Neal L. Fredericks (July 24, 1969 in Newport Beach, California - August 14, 2004 in the Florida Keys) was an American motion picture cinematographer, most famous for The Blair Witch Project, noted and praised by critics for its distinctive cinéma...
Date of birth:
- Jul 24, 1969
Date of death:
- Aug 14, 2004 (age 35 years)
Ray Dennis Steckler
Ray Dennis Steckler (January 25, 1938 – January 7, 2009), also known by the pseudonym Cash Flagg, was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor best known as the low-budget auteur of such cult films as The Incredibly Strange...
Date of birth:
- Jan 25, 1938
Date of death:
- Jan 7, 2009 (age 71 years)
Claude Lelouch
Claude Lelouch (born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer.
Born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris to a Jewish family of Algerian origin, his father gave him a camera to give him a fresh start after...
Date of birth:
- Oct 30, 1937 (age 72 years)
Caleb Deschanel
Joseph Caleb Deschanel, A.S.C. (born September 21, 1944) is an American cinematographer.
Deschanel was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a French father and an American mother, who raised him in her Quaker religion. He went to Severn School for...
Date of birth:
- Sep 21, 1944 (age 65 years)
Stanley Cortez
Stanley Cortez, A.S.C. (born Stanislaus Krantz; November 4, 1908 – December 23, 1997) was an American cinematographer. He worked on over seventy films, including Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Charles Laughton's The Night of the...
Date of birth:
- Nov 4, 1908
Date of death:
- Dec 23, 1997 (age 89 years)
Vittorio Storaro
Vittorio Storaro, A.S.C., A.I.C. (born 24 June 1940 in Rome) is a three-time Academy Award winning Italian cinematographer.
The son of a film projectionist, Storaro began studying photography at the age of 11, and went on to formal cinematography...
Date of birth:
- Jun 24, 1940 (age 69 years)
Rodrigo Prieto
Rodrigo Prieto (born November, 1965) is a Mexican cinematographer.
Prieto was born in Mexico City, Mexico. His grandfather was mayor of Mexico City and leader of the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico, but was later persecuted by the country's ruler...
Date of birth:
- Nov 1965 (age 44 years)
Floyd Crosby
Floyd Delafield Crosby, A.S.C. (December 12, 1899 – 30 September 1985) was an award winning American cinematographer.
Crosby was born and raised in West Philadelphia, the son of Julia Floyd (née Delafield) and Frederick Van Schoonhoven Crosby. In...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1899
Date of death:
- Sep 30, 1985 (age 85 years)
Jesús Franco
Jesús "Jess" Franco (born 12 May 1930 as Jesús Franco Manera) is a Spanish film director, writer, cinematographer and actor. Though he had an American box office success with his first women in prison film, 99 Women, in 1969, he never achieved wide...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1930 (age 79 years)
Jan de Bont
Jan de Bont (born October 22, 1943) is a Dutch cinematographer, producer, and film director.
De Bont was born, one of 17 children, to a Roman Catholic family in Eindhoven, Netherlands. His earliest work after studying at the Amsterdam Film Academy...
Date of birth:
- Oct 22, 1943 (age 66 years)
Peter Hyams
Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American screenwriter, director and cinematographer, probably best known for directing the 1984 sci-fi adventure 2010 (the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), Capricorn One, the comic book...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1943 (age 66 years)
Biju Viswanath
Biju Viswanath is an international film director and director of photography.
Viswanath's directorial debut A Voyage is based on the works of famous Indian writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair. The film won the gold medal for best short film in India and...
Alexander Witt
Alexander B. Witt (born 1952) is a Hollywood filmmaker who has worked mostly as a camera operator and second unit director. His feature directorial debut came in 2004 with Resident Evil: Apocalypse, based on the popular Capcom video game series....
Date of birth:
- 1952 (age 58 years)
Simon Tansek
Simon Tansek (born April 24, 1973 in Trbovlje, Slovenia) is a Slovenian cinematographer. He has worked with Slovenian film directors like Jan Cvitkovic and Janez Burger. His credits include Idle Running and Ruins.
Date of birth:
- Apr 24, 1973 (age 36 years)
László Kovács
László Kovács, (pronounced [ˈlaːsloː ˈkovaːtʃ]) A.S.C. (May 14, 1933 – July 22, 2007) was a Hungarian cinematographer who was influential in the development of American New Wave films. Most famous for his award-winning work on Easy Rider and Five...
Date of birth:
- May 14, 1933
Date of death:
- Jul 22, 2007 (age 74 years)
Roger Deakins
Roger Antony Deakins (born 24 May 1949) is an English BAFTA Award-winning cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers. Deakins is a member of both the American and British Society of Cinematographers.
Deakins was born...
Date of birth:
- May 24, 1949 (age 60 years)
Ronald Neame
Ronald Neame, CBE (born 23 April 1911, London) is a British film cinematographer, producer, screenwriter, and director.
Neame's parents were the photographer Elwin Neame and the actress Ivy Close. He studied at the University College School and...
Date of birth:
- Apr 23, 1911 (age 98 years)
Gilbert Taylor
Gil Taylor, B.S.C. (born 12 April 1914) in Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, England, is a cinematographer.
After six years service during World War II as an officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, he became an Operational Cameraman flying in...
Date of birth:
- Apr 12, 1914 (age 95 years)
Balu Mahendra
Balanathan "Balu" Mahendran (Tamil: பாலநாதன் மகேந்திரா) (born 20 May 1939 in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka) is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and cinematographer widely regarded as part of the first in a wave of directors and screenwriters from the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 1, 1946 (age 64 years)
Roy H. Wagner
Roy H. Wagner, A.S.C. is a two-time Emmy-winning cinematographer known for dramatic, dark imagery. Named by Kodak as one of the "Top 100 Directors of Photography in the World" Wagner's career has spanned 35 years in the motion picture and television...
Erwin Hillier
Erwin Hillier (2 September 1911 – 10 January 2005) was German-born cinematographer known for his work in British cinema from the 1940s to 1960s.
Born in Germany to English-German parents, he studied art in Berlin in the late 1920s. Impressed by...
Date of birth:
- Sep 2, 1911
Date of death:
- Jan 10, 2005 (age 93 years)
Shaji N. Karun
Shaji Neelakantan Karun (Malayalam: ഷാജി എന്. കരുണ്; born 1 January 1952) is a National Award-winning Malayalam film director and cinematographer. His debut film Piravi won the Caméra d'Or - Mention d'honneur at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. He...
Date of birth:
- Jan 1, 1952 (age 58 years)
John Toll
John Toll A.S.C. is a two-time Academy Award-Winning, Cleveland-born American cinematographer.
In 1978 he worked on his first film, Norma Rae, as camera operator. He won back-to-back Academy Awards for Best Cinematography in 1994 and 1995, for the...
Vilmos Zsigmond
Vilmos Zsigmond, A.S.C. (born June 16, 1930) is an Academy Award winning Hungarian-American cinematographer.
Zsigmond was born in Szeged, Hungary, the son of Bozena (née Illichman), an administrator, and Vilmos Zsigmond, a celebrated soccer player...
Date of birth:
- Jun 16, 1930 (age 79 years)
John Alton
John Alton A.S.C. (October 5, 1901 – June 2, 1996), born Johann Altmann, in Sopron/Ödenburg, Austria-Hungary, was an American cinematographer.
Alton won an Academy Award for An American in Paris (1951).
He photographed some of the most famous film...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1901
Date of death:
- Jun 2, 1996 (age 94 years)
Sven Nykvist
Sven Vilhem Nykvist (3 December 1922 – 20 September 2006) was a two-time Academy Award winning Swedish cinematographer. He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. He won Academy Awards for his...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1922
Date of death:
- Sep 20, 2006 (age 83 years)
Robby Müller
Robby Müller (born April 4, 1940, in Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles) is a cinematographer whose name is most often associated with film director Wim Wenders.
Müller's first feature was Alabama: 2000 light years. This was also the first feature of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 4, 1940 (age 69 years)
