Bill ButlerFilmography

Evil Angel

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ving Rhames

Synopsis: Ving Rhames stars in director Richard Dutcher's updating of the Lillith myth. According to Hebrew Mythology, Adam's first wife Lillith was banished from the Garden of Eden by God after her husband decried her lack of submission. In the wake of her open definace, Lillith was said to have become the Read More

The Shark Is Still Working

Funny Money

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Chevy Chase, Penelope Ann Miller, Armand Assante, Robert Loggia, Christopher McDonald

Synopsis: Leslie Greif directs this adaptation of Ray Cooney's hit British play, a throwback farce about mistaken identity. Chevy Chase plays Henry Perkins, a listless late-middle-aged executive in a wax fruit company; his wife, Carol (Penelope Ann Miller), is similarly bored, a struggling sculptor and Read More

Cinematographer Style

Actors: Remi Adefarasin, Russ T. Alsobrook, Howard A. Anderson III, Peter Anderson

Synopsis: Over a hundred leading cameramen (and women) discuss the fine art of motion picture photography in this documentary. Cinematographer Style is compiled from interviews with a broad cross section of respected cinematographers, ranging from award-winning veterans such as Gordon Willis (The Read More

Tell Them Who You Are

Actors: Haskell Wexler, Mark S. Wexler, Peter Bart, James Becket, Verna Bloom

Synopsis: Mark Wexler is a successful photojournalist who has also distinguished himself as a documentary filmmaker, but in many ways he has spent much of his life in the shadow of his more famous father, Haskell Wexler. One of Hollywood's greatest cinematographers, Haskell is also known as a director (he Read More

Frailty

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter

Synopsis: Actor Bill Paxton made his directorial debut with Frailty. The bulk of the story is told through flashbacks, as a mysterious man (Matthew McConaughey) tells a terrible tale to an FBI agent (Powers Boothe) investigating the "God's Hand" serial killer case. The man grew up in a small town in Texas Read More

Passing Glory

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Andre Braugher, Rip Torn, Sean Squire, Ruby Dee, Bill Nunn

Synopsis: Set in the institutionally segregated New Orleans of 1965, the made-for-cable Passing Glory is the story of black priest Father Joseph Verrett (Andre Braugher) and his efforts to arrange the first integrated high-school basketball game in the city's history. Against the wishes of trepid white Read More

Deceiver

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Michael Rooker, Renée Zellweger, Ellen Burstyn

Synopsis: Walter Wayland (Tim Roth) has lead a life that many would envy. The heir to a fortune, he was educated at Princeton and then took over the family textile mill. Why then is he sitting before detectives Kennesaw (Michael Rooker) and Braxton (Chris Penn) taking a polygraph test to prove himself Read More

Anaconda

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Don La Fontaine, Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde

Synopsis: A group of filmmakers looking for a lost native tribe instead find a man-eating monster in this thriller. Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez) is a documentary filmmaker on assignment to make a film about the Shirishama Indians of the Amazon, a mysterious tribe known as "the People of the Mists." As Read More

Don King: Only In America

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ving Rhames, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jeremy Piven, Darius McCrary, Keith David

Synopsis: This biographical drama about boxing impresario Don King (Ving Rhames) pulls no punches as it uses flashback sequences to trace King's rise from 1954 Cleveland to the present day. Adapted from Jack Newfield's book on King, this film first aired November 15, 1997 on HBO. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Read More

Flipper

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Elijah Wood, Paul Hogan, Chelsea Field, Isaac Hayes, Jonathan Banks

Synopsis: In this adventure drama for the family, based on the popular TV series of the mid-'60s, Sandy Ricks (Elijah Wood) is a moody teenager from Chicago who is not dealing well with the recent divorce of his parents. In the hope that a change of scenery will do him good, Sandy is sent to spend the Read More

Beethoven's 2nd

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Nicholle Tom, Christopher Castile, Sarah Rose Karr

Synopsis: The gargantuan St. Bernard finds love in this sequel to the box-office hit. Beethoven happens to meet Missy, another St. Bernard, in the park and the two find they share a certain chemistry. Unfortunately, Missy is being held captive by Regina (Debi Mazar), a spiteful ex-wife attempting to Read More

Cop and a Half

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Norman D. Golden II, Ruby Dee, Holland Taylor, Ray Sharkey

Synopsis: When an eight-year-old black youth (Norman D. Golden II) witnesses a mob hit, he orders the police to make him a cop for a day before he will help identify the killer. Detective Nick McKenna (Burt Reynolds) is the unfortunate assigned to the case. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography

Actors: Néstor Almendros, John A. Alonzo, Michael Ballhaus, Stephen H. Burum, Sven Nykvist, Vittorio Storaro, Haskell Wexler, Gordon Willis

Synopsis: The film equivalent of a stroll through the Louvre, the documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography collects interviews with many of modern-day Hollywood's finest directors of photography and is illustrated by examples of their best work as well as scenes from the pictures which most Read More

Sniper

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane, J.T. Walsh, Aden Young, Ken Radley

Synopsis: In this fast-paced military thriller, Tom Berenger is Thomas Beckett, a tough, grizzled, U.S. Marine Corps veteran sharpshooter who goes through target-spotter partners faster than bullets on his ultra-dangerous missions. The National Security Council secretly assigns Beckett to assassinate a Read More

Hot Shots!

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: From director Jim Abrahams, one of the minds behind the Airplane! and Naked Gun films, comes another parody. This time around, Abrahams has his sights set on the action-adventure genre, specifically Top Gun. Charlie Sheen stars as Topper Harley, a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in Read More

Graffiti Bridge

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Prince, Ingrid Chavez, Morris Day, Jerome Benton, Mavis Staples

Synopsis: Prince wrote, directed, and stars in this disastrous sequel to Purple Rain that equates differing musical styles with God, angels, faith, and the struggle between the spiritual and the earthy. Once again Prince is The Kid, still working his emotional damnedest to one-up Morris Day and his band Read More

When We Were Young

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the relationships between eight Northern California high-school graduates living on the cusp of 1960. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Child's Play

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif, Dinah Manoff

Synopsis: Child's Play seems to have been concocted by a parent who went berserk after standing in line for hours on end to purchase a Cabbage Patch doll in the early 1980s. The film opens with serial killer Brad Dourif taking refuge in a doll factory. Dourif is killed by the cops, but not before he has Read More

Biloxi Blues

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken, Matt Mulhern, Corey Parker, Michael Dolan, Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: Biloxi Blues was the second of playwright Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical trilogy (number one was Brighton Beach Memoirs; number three, Broadway Bound). Matthew Broderick stars as Simon's alter ego Eugene Morris Jerome, who is drafted and shipped off to boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in the Read More

Wildfire

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Steven Bauer, Linda Fiorentino, Will Patton, Marshall Bell, Sandra Seacat

Synopsis: If it is possible for a film to be "in heat", then Zalman King's Wildfire is that film. Teenagers Steven Bauer and Linda Fiorentino have their wedding plans shelved indefinitely when Bauer is imprisoned for bank robbery. Upon his release, Bauer learns that Linda is a wife and mother, with no Read More

Rocky IV

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, Dolph Lundgren

Synopsis: The third sequel to Sylvester Stallone's boxing blockbuster combines the ringside sports melodrama of the previous installments with the Cold War patriotism of the star/director's other motion picture series of the 1980s, the Rambo saga. Stallone is back as Rocky Balboa, the heavyweight champion Read More

Big Trouble

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Charles Durning, Paul Dooley, Robert Stack

Synopsis: It took nearly two years after its completion for Big Trouble to reach the big screen. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are respectively cast as a shady wheeler-dealer and an uptight family man. Strapped for the cash necessary to send his son to Yale, Arkin reluctantly enters into a murder scheme with Beverly D'Angelo Read More

Beer

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Loretta Swit, Rip Torn, Kenneth Mars, David Alan Grier, William Russ

Synopsis: The self-aggrandizing world of Madison Avenue advertising is the subject of this clichéd, sexist satire that features a cynical ad executive (Loretta Swit) and her minions who choose three regular Joes to represent the Norbecker Beer company in a new ad campaign. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Read More

A Streetcar Named Desire

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ann-Margret, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo

Synopsis: Ann Margret looks too healthy to portray Blanche DuBois, the physically and mentally fragile Southern-belle protagonist of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, but we forget this discrepancy five minutes into her marvelous performance. This TV-movie version of Streetcar costars Treat Williams Read More

The Sting II

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: Although penned by the same screenwriter, David S. Ward, this sequel to The Sting (1973) is tarnished by comparisons to its predecessor. Jackie Gleason fills the shoes of Paul Newman as Harry Gondorff and Mac Davis slips into the Robert Redford role of Johnny Hooker, two con men pals whose latest Read More

The Thorn Birds

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: This mammoth TV miniseries, based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, proved to be a ratings bonanza; indeed, its viewership was surpassed only by the 1978 blockbuster Roots. Set in Australia, the story covers 42 years in the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Read More

Rocky III

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Mr. T, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone returns to the character which made him famous in this wildly successful sequel. Rocky III starts with the Italian Stallion so famous that his likeness is everywhere, including pinball machines. Fame and complacency soon cause Balboa to lose his title to young thug Clubber Lang (Mr. T Read More

The Secret of NIMH

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Hermione Baddeley, Arthur Malet, Peter Strauss, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Frustrated with the Walt Disney studio's reluctance to produce full-length animated films, Don Bluth and a number of animators left the studio in the early '80s with the intent of creating movies in the style of Disney's classics. The Secret of NIMH is the first film Bluth produced after leaving Read More

Stripes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Warren Oates, P.J. Soles, Sean Young, John Candy

Synopsis: Bill Murray decides to be all that he can be -- and it ain't pretty -- in this hit comedy. John Winger (Murray) is a quick-witted but unambitious loser who comes home after getting fired to discover that his car has been repossessed and his girlfriend is leaving him. With no idea of what to do Read More

The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kristy McNichol, Dennis Quaid, Mark Hamill, Don Stroud, Arlen Dean Snyder

Synopsis: A would-be Nashville star finds himself in hot water during a stay in Georgia in this drama based (very loosely) on the hit song of the same title. Travis Child (Dennis Quaid) is a country singer looking for his big break, crisscrossing the country playing honky-tonks with his younger sister (and Read More

Death Ray 2000

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Logan

Synopsis: A full-length pilot which was turned into the series A Man Called Sloane, this movie concerns super-agent T.R. Sloane (Robert Logan, but played by Robert Conrad in the TV series) and his mission: to locate and return a powerful machine capable of turning the world into rubble. To complicate Read More

Killing at Hell's Gate

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this made-for-television thriller, a pair of couples, a U.S. senator among them, are stalked by backwoods snipers while on a white-water rafting trip. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Can't Stop the Music

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Valerie Perrine, Ray Simpson, David Hodo, Steve Guttenberg, June Havoc, Felipe Rose, Randy Jones, Barbara Rush, Leigh Taylor-Young, Glenn R. Hughes, Bruce Jenner

Synopsis: Glitz producer Allan Carr tries to cash in on the late-'70s disco boom with Can't Stop the Music -- a film of such Brobdingnagian banality that it almost in itself stopped the disco movement cold. Comedienne Nancy Walker directed this musical chronicle, purporting to relate the legend of the Read More

It's My Turn

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin, Beverly Garland, Steven Hill

Synopsis: Claudia Weill's second feature is a romantic look at the humorous and tragic sides of love, starring Jill Clayburgh as Kate Gunzinger, a mathematics professor who lives with perpetually sunny architect Homer (Charles Grodin) in Chicago. But during a trip to New York City, Kate becomes romantically Read More

Rocky II

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: By concentrating on character development with this first of several sequels to his Oscar-winning smash Rocky (1976), writer/director Sylvester Stallone earned critical praise that would desert him with the boxing saga's shallower subsequent chapters. Stallone returns as Rocky Balboa, a Read More

Ice Castles

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lynn-Holly Johnson, Robby Benson, Colleen Dewhurst, Tom Skerritt, Jennifer Warren

Synopsis: In this sports melodrama that boldly illustrates the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, Lynn-Holly Johnson plays Iowa farm girl Alexis Winston, who has a God-given talent for ice skating. With the encouragement and training of the local ice-skating rink operator Beulah Smith (Colleen Dewhurst Read More

Uncle Joe Shannon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Burt Young, Doug McKeon, Madge Sinclair, Jason Bernard, Bert Remsen

Synopsis: In this tearjerker, an impoverished jazz musician falls into a deep depression following the deaths of his wife and child in a terrible fire. Just as the man begins to contemplate suicide, he encounters a handicapped youth. The two become friends and manage to shore each other up through their Read More

Damien: Omen II

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Lew Ayres, Lucas Donat

Synopsis: Satan's son comes of age in this horror sequel. Shortly after the events of The Omen, a pair of anthropologists uncovers an ancient crypt that depicts the face of the Antichrist -- that of Damien Thorn (Jonathan Scott-Taylor), recently orphaned scion of a wealthy industrialist. Before they can Read More

Capricorn One

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson

Synopsis: Astronauts Charles Brubaker, John Walker, and Peter Willis (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston, respectively) are hailed as heroes when they become the first men to be rocketed to Mars. Actually the space travelers are as phony as their mission controller, Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook Read More

Grease

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden

Synopsis: "Grease," said the poster and the Barry Gibb song, "is the word." Transferring its setting from Chicago to sunny California, and adding a dash of disco to the ersatz '50s score, producer Allan Carr and director Randal Kleiser turned this long-running Jim Jacobs - Warren Casey Broadway smash into Read More

Raid on Entebbe

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Raid on Entebbe constitutes one of two all-star made-for-TV reenactments of the Entebbe rescue of July 4, 1976. On June 27, 1976, a jet carrying an international mix of passengers is hijacked by pro-Palestinian revolutionaries. The plane lands in Entebbe, Uganda, where President-for-life Idi Amin (Yaphet Kotto Read More

Demon Seed

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerritt Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu

Synopsis: Adapted from a lesser-known novel from SF/Horror author Dean R. Koontz, this claustrophobic thriller presents a computerized nemesis incorporating the murderous elements of 2001's HAL with the world-domination goal of the title villain in Colossus: The Forbin Project. Brilliant cybernetics expert Read More

Mary White

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ed Flanders, Kathleen Beller

Synopsis: Journalist William Allen White, the Pulitzer Prize-winning sage of Emporia, Kansas, lost his beloved 16-year-old daughter Mary when she was killed in a horseback-riding accident in 1921. The grieving White then wrote a newspaper editorial celebrating his daughter's life, which he printed in his Read More

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor, Rico Dawson, Sam "Birmingham" Briston

Synopsis: Based on the novel by William Brasher, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings is set in the segregated south of 1939. African-American baseball pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams), tired of being jerked around by the less-than-ethical managers of the Negro League teams, forms his Read More

Alex and the Gypsy

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Geneviève Bujold, James Woods, Gino Ardito, Robert Emhardt

Synopsis: Alexander Main (Jack Lemmon) is a tired, middle-aged bail bondsman who hears from his former girlfriend Maritza (Genevieve Bujold) for the first time in quite a while. The news isn't good: Maritza is accused of the attempted murder of her abusive lover, and she hopes that Alex can get her out of Read More

Lipstick

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King, Anne Bancroft, Robin Gammell

Synopsis: Lipstick is a cheap exploitation film pretending to make a social statement about rape and revenge. Chris (Margaux Hemingway), a fashion model is raped by Gordon Stuart (Chris Sarandon) her sister's music teacher. When he tries to rape her sister Kathy (Mariel Hemingway), Chris kills him. She is Read More

Hustling

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Hustling is a made-for-television film about a New York reporter (Lee Remick) who investigates the dangerous world of prostitution and becomes friends with a tough, abused hooker (Jill Clayburgh). ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Target Risk

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Bo Svenson plays a bonded courier whose girlfriend Meredith Baxter is kidnapped while the two of them are out on a date. The villains demand that Svenson participate in an elaborate scam. He is to fake a diamond robbery, so that the bad guys can collect a huge insurance settlement. But Svenson Read More

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Dean R. Brooks, Scatman Crothers

Synopsis: With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of the Establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is sent to the Read More

Fear on Trial

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: William Devane, George C. Scott, Dorothy Tristan, William Redfield

Synopsis: William Devane stars as John Henry Faulk, a popular radio and TV entertainer of the 1950s. In 1956, Faulk is blacklisted on the basis of an attack from the self-appointed anticommunist group AWARE. Fired by CBS, Faulk decides to sue AWARE for libel. His attorney Louis Nizer (George C. Scott) warns Read More

The Big Rip-Off

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: The Big Rip-Off was the pilot film for Tony Curtis' shortlived TV series McCoy. Curtis plays a sly but basically decent con artist who is engaged to recover $250,000 in ransom money from a recent high-society kidnapping. In the tradition of The Sting, Curtis uses scam tactics to get the money Read More

Jaws

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while frightening millions of moviegoers out of the water. One early summer night on fictional Atlantic resort Amity Island, Chrissie decides to take a Read More

The Execution of Private Slovik

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Martin Sheen, Ned Beatty, Mariclare Costello, Gary Busey, Matt Clark

Synopsis: In 1945, private Eddie Slovik, a "born loser" who made no secret of his desire to escape the army in any way possible, became the first American to be executed for desertion since the Civil War. William Bradford Huie's chronicle of this unfortunate wartime episode, The Execution of Private Slovik Read More

Indict and Convict

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: District Attorney Sam Belden (William Shatner) is accused of murdering his wife and lover. Belden claims it was impossible, because he was 150 miles from the murder scene and he can prove it. It is up to prosecutor Bob Mathews (George Grizzard) to blow holes into Belden's alibi -- a difficult and Read More

The Conversation

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams

Synopsis: Made between The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), and in part an homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's art-movie classic Blow-Up (1966), The Conversation was a return to small-scale art films for Francis Ford Coppola. Sound surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to Read More

Deliver Us From Evil

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this action adventure, five wilderness greenhorns on a hiking trip stumble across the remains of a skyjacker. They also find a fortune in cash. This causes nothing but grief as the greedy quintet battle their way back to civilization. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Dean Jagger, Paul Stanley, Marianne Jones, George Clutesi

Synopsis:
Made for television, I Heard the Owl Call My Name is set in an isolated Indian village in British Columbia. Tom Courtenay plays a naive young Anglican priest who is caught unawares by the primitiveness and poverty of his new parishioners. Bishop Dean Jagger, who's seen it all (and looks it!) Read More

Sunshine

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: After a young mother is diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, she begins writing a journal containing her most heartfelt thoughts. It is to be her legacy to her beloved husband and daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Savage

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Savage is worth seeing today as an example of early Steven Spielberg. Martin Landau stars as Paul Savage, a TV investigative reporter. In possession of a photograph that might destroy the career of a Supreme Court nominee, Savage finds himself the target of scrutiny from all sorts Read More

Hickey and Boggs

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Matt Bennett, Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Rosalind Cash, Carmen, Louis Moreno

Synopsis: The stars of the witty TV series I Spy were reunited for this downbeat crime thriller, which takes a much darker and more violent look at the lives of two detectives for hire. Al Hickey (Bill Cosby) and Frank Boggs (Robert Culp) are a pair of private eyes who are approached by an attorney to find Read More

Deliverance

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

Synopsis: Adapted from James Dickey's popular novel, John Boorman's 1972 movie recounts the grueling psychological and physical journey taken by four city slickers down a river in the backwoods of Georgia. At the behest of Iron John-esque Lewis (Burt Reynolds), the less adventuresome Ed (Jon Voight), Bobby (Ned Beatty Read More

Something Evil

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: A young Steven Spielberg helmed the made-for-TV Something Evil. Johnny Whitaker (Family Affair) is cast as Stevie Worden, an angelic child whose parents move into a foreboding Pennsylvania mansion. It isn't long before Stevie is possessed with the house's resident demonic spirit. In anticipation Read More

The Return of Count Yorga

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Lonely vampire Count Yorga and his bloodthirsty cohorts begin living in a ramshackle mansion located near an orphanage. This slightly fang-in-cheek horror film chronicles what happens when the Count falls in love with a toothsome young woman and tries to make her his bride. Fortunately for her Read More

Drive, He Said

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta, Bruce Dern, Robert Towne

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson first put his well-documented enthusiasm for basketball to good use in this film, which he wrote and directed between his roles in Five Easy Pieces and Carnal Knowledge. William Tepper plays Hector, a student at a college in Ohio who shares a room with his friend Gabriel (Michael Margotta Read More

Adam's Woman

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Beau Bridges, Jane Merrow, John Mills, James Booth, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: Also known as Return of the Boomerang, Adam's Woman is set in the rough-and-tumble Australia of the 1840s. Beau Bridges plays Adam, convicted of a crime he didn't commit and shipped off to the penal colony "Down Under". Enduring brutal treatment, he escapes, only to be captured again. Thanks to Read More

A Clear and Present Danger

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joseph Campanella, Cindy Eilbacher, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: The Bold Ones was the umbrella title given a group of rotating hour-long TV series, which ran from 1969 to 1973. Joining established Bold Ones components The Doctors and The Lawyers in 1970 was The Senator, starring Hal Holbrook as RFK-like Senator Hays Stowe. The pilot for The Senator was A Clear and Present Danger Read More

The Rain People

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall, Marya Zimmet, Tom Aldredge

Synopsis: Despite an effort by the Warner Bros. publicity mills to turn The Rain People into an instant cult film upon its first release (the ad campaign stressed the intimacy and humanity of the story), this early Francis Ford Coppola effort would have to wait several years to find its audience. Shirley Knight Read More

Fearless Frank

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jon Voight, Monique Van Vooren, Joan Darling, Severn Darden, Lou Gilbert

Synopsis: In this eccentric independent comedy filmed in Chicago, Frank (Jon Voight) is a hayseed who heads north to the big city of Chicago, only to run afoul of gangsters and wind up murdered. Frank soon finds himself resurrected as a virtuous superhero, Fearless Frank, but a mad scientist (Severn Darden) Read More