John BaileyFilmography

Born:: August 10, 1942 in Moberly, MO
Occupation:: Cinematographer
Biography:: American cinematographer John Bailey's academic credits range from Loyola University to the University of Vienna. He received his most practical training at USC's film school, then moved on to inexpensive, independent productions. Bailey received critical praise for his work on the cult film Boulevard Nights...Read More

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Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Julianne Nicholson, John Krasinski, Bobby Cannavale, Timothy Hutton, Dominic Cooper

Synopsis: Adapted from the book by David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men tells the story of Sara Quinn, a graduate student in anthropology who's left feeling lost after her boyfriend breaks up with her and offers little explanation as to why. With her dissertation looming, Sara begins a Read More

9/25/09
He's Just Not That Into You

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly

Synopsis: Ken Kwapis' adaptation of Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's best-selling self-help book He's Just Not That Into You follows the love lives of a dozen or so characters. Ginnifer Goodwin stars as Gigi, a young women attempting to understand the mixed signals she gets from the men she's dating. She Read More

2/6/09
The Greatest

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan, Johnny Simmons, Aaron Johnson

Synopsis: Tragedy opens the wounds a family has long struggled to ignore in this powerful emotional drama. Bennett Brewster (Aaron Johnson) was a bright, handsome and talented young man who was suddenly killed in an auto accident late one night while driving home with Rose (Carey Mulligan), a girl who has Read More

2009
Over Her Dead Body

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Lindsay Sloane

Synopsis: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd, and Lake Bell star in first-time feature filmmaker Jeff Lowell's heavenly romantic comedy concerning a female psychic and a doubtful skeptic who find their fledgling love affair thwarted by the latter's recently deceased fiancée. Henry (Rudd) and Kate (Longoria Parker Read More

2/1/08
Mad Money

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Stephen Root

Synopsis: A woman who was used to the finer things in life is suddenly thrust back into the work force after her husband gets downsized in writer/director Callie Khouri's (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) American adaptation of the hit British comedy Hot Money. Faced with the prospect of losing her Read More

1/18/08
The Greatest

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, Carey Mulligan, Johnny Simmons, Aaron Johnson

2008
License to Wed

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John Krasinski, Eric Christian Olsen, Christine Taylor

Synopsis: An engaged young couple finds their lifetime of happiness unexpectedly compromised by a pushy minister who insists they successfully complete his comprehensive marriage-prep course before exchanging wedding vows in a matrimonial comedy starring John Krasinski, Mandy Moore, and Robin Williams. Read More

7/4/07
The Architect

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian Stan

Synopsis: Tonya Neely (Viola Davis) is a neighborhood activist on the south side of Chicago, trying to get her community to rally to tear down Eden Court, the dangerous housing project where she lives. After a family tragedy, she sent her youngest daughter, Cammie (Serena Reeder), off to live with friends Read More

12/1/06
The Producers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach

Synopsis: After transforming his first motion picture into a smash Broadway musical, Mel Brooks brings the story of two would-be theatrical moguls turned con men back to the screen in this musical comedy. Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) was once one of Broadway's most successful producers, but a string of Read More

12/16/05
Must Love Dogs

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Diane Lane, John Cusack, Elizabeth Perkins, Christopher Plummer, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: A woman finds herself drafted into the battle of finding the perfect man in this romantic comedy. Sarah Nolan (Diane Lane) is a kindergarten teacher in her mid-thirties who is still dealing with the emotional aftermath of her divorce eight months ago. While her sisters, Christine (Ali Hillis) and Read More

7/29/05
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd

Synopsis: Ann Brashares' best-selling novel for young adults comes to the big screen in this engaging comedy drama. Carmen (America Ferrera), Bridget (Blake Lively), Lena (Alexis Bledel), and Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) are four teenage girls who have been close friends since they were babies (and even before Read More

6/1/05
Incident at Loch Ness

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Werner Herzog, Kitana Baker, Gabriel Beristain, Russell Williams, David Davidson

Synopsis: A handful of filmmakers looking for the fabled sea serpent of Loch Ness get a look at another sort of monster in this witty mock documentary. Under commission from producer and screenwriter Zak Penn, notoriously eccentric German filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Scotland to shoot his latest film Read More

9/17/04
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Michael Michele, Shalom Harlow

Synopsis: Two New Yorkers fight the battle of the sexes to a standstill (without entirely realizing it) in this romantic comedy. Andie (Kate Hudson) is a young journalist who longs to cover political stories, but in the meantime she finds herself writing for a women's magazine called Composure, where Read More

2/7/03
Naqoyqatsi

Crew: Additional Cinematography

Synopsis: Filmmaker, philosopher and activist Godfrey Reggio completes the film trilogy he began with Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi in this visually striking examination of the impact of technology upon our culture. Naqoyqatsi is a word from the Hopi language which roughly translates as "war as a way of Read More

10/18/02
The Kid Stays in the Picture

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Evans

Synopsis: Robert Evans' rise from second-string actor (who really was discovered while lounging by the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel) to head of one of Hollywood's biggest movie studios is told from the viewpoint of Evans himself in this documentary, adapted from his autobiography (and featuring Evans' Read More

7/26/02
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd, Fionnula Flanagan, Maggie Smith, Cherry Jones, Shirley Knight, James Garner

Synopsis: Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere. Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Lee Walker, a New York playwright who opens a can of emotional worms Read More

6/7/02
The Anniversary Party

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jane Adams, Mina Badie, Jennifer Beals

Synopsis: In this Dogma 95-inspired first feature for acclaimed performers Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming, the two star as Joe and Sally Therrian, a couple who have recently reconciled after a yearlong separation, and who decide to throw a sixth anniversary party in their honor. They invite a Read More

6/8/01
AntiTrust

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani, Tim Robbins, Douglas McFerran

Synopsis: Just how far should one man go to stay ahead of his competition? Milo Hoffmann (Ryan Phillippe) is a young and gifted computer software designer who with his close friend Teddy is about to launch a high-tech start-up firm based on Milo's inventive ideas in convergence, in which he's helping to Read More

1/12/01
*NSYNC: Bigger Than Live

Crew: Additional Cinematography

Actors: *NSYNC

Synopsis: 'N Sync is one of the biggest pop groups in America, and they get even bigger in this concern documentary, which was shot and originally distributed in the high-definition IMAX format. Shot at several dates during the band's sold-out tour in support of the album {^No Strings Attached}, 'N Sync Read More

2001
Michael Jordan to the Max

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson, Doug Collins, Bob Greene, Bob Costas

Synopsis: Michael Jordan was the most famous, most honored, and probably the greatest professional basketball player of his generation, an athlete whose intelligence, charisma, and dazzling on-court skill helped earn his game a new level of popularity and won Jordan a record six NBA title rings. Michael Read More

5/5/00
Via Dolorosa

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Actors: David Hare

Synopsis: Noted playwright and screenwriter David Hare stars in this one man filmed stage play that was the toast of both London's West End and of Broadway. Using a spare set-up of four stationary cameras, the film shows Hare recounting his disconcerting visit to Israel. He compares it with his native Read More

2000
For Love of the Game

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, Jena Malone, Brian Cox

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Michael Shaara, For Love of the Game brought Kevin Costner back to the world of baseball after his successes with Bull Durham (1988) and Field of Dreams (1989). Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner) is a star pitcher with the Detroit Tigers, standing on the mound at Yankee Stadium and Read More

9/17/99
The Out-of-Towners

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Steve Martin, Goldie Hawn, Mark McKinney, John Cleese, Oliver Hudson

Synopsis: When Frank Sinatra sang "If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere, it's up to you, New York!" he probably didn't have the same odds in mind that line up against Henry and Nancy Clark in The Out-Of-Towners. Henry (Steve Martin) is an advertising man from Ohio who runs his life on an exacting Read More

4/2/99
Forever Mine

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Ray Liotta, Gretchen Mol, Vincent Laresca

Synopsis: Writer/director Paul Schrader explored his well-documented interest in film noir with this modern-day crime story. A horribly disfigured man named Manuel Esquema (Joseph Fiennes) is called upon to help out Mark Brice (Ray Liotta), a former city councilman in a wealthy New York community. Brice has Read More

1999
Living Out Loud

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Holly Hunter, Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah, Martin Donovan, Richard Schiff

Synopsis: Noted screenwriter Richard LaGravenese made his directorial debut with this dramatic comedy about two unlikely people who find each other while looking for love. Judith Nelson (Holly Hunter) is suddenly single after discovering her husband of fifteen years, a successful doctor (Martin Donovan) Read More

10/30/98
Always Outnumbered

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Bill Cobbs, Natalie Cole, Bill Duke, Laurie Metcalf

Synopsis: Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) directed this Walter Mosley script adaptation of Mosley's short story collection, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned. Ex-con Socrates Fortlow (Laurence Fishburne) returns to L.A., looks for work, becomes friends with Right Burke (Bill Cobbs), is told he's too Read More

1998
Indiscreet

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Luke Perry, Gloria Reuben, Peter Coyote, Lisa Edelstein, Adam Baldwin

Synopsis: An alcoholic cop turned private eye falls for the woman he's hired to investigate in this thriller produced for cable network HBO. Monied Zachariah Dodd (James Read) wants to divorce his wife, Eve (Gloria Reuben), so he hires recovering drunk Michael Nash (Luke Perry) to spy on her, hoping to Read More

1998
As Good As It Gets

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Harold Ramis, Jesse James, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News) directed this $50 million-plus romantic comedy, set in Manhattan. Dysfunctional, acid-tongued romance novelist Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), who suffers from an obsessive-compulsive disorder, takes pride in his ability to offend. At a nearby Read More

1997
Extreme Measures

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse, Bill Nunn

Synopsis: Comic leading man Hugh Grant gets serious in this drama about a physician who uncovers a truly disturbing secret. Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor serving a residence in a hospital in New York City, is very puzzled by a patient brought to the emergency room one night. Naked, disoriented Read More

1996
Nobody's Fool

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh

Synopsis: Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination (and won citations from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Berlin International Film Festival) for his performance in this well-drawn comedy-drama. Sully (Newman) is a 60-year-old man who emotionally seems to have never quite emerged from adolescence; Read More

1994
Below 30, Above 10,000

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: David Clayberg, Kathryn Cressida, Jeff Glickman, Lori Heuring, Hanz Maroto

Synopsis: A trio in their mid-20s take off into the wilderness in this road film. All of the protagonists are 26-years old and currently living in L.A. All are facing major life changes and therefore, decide to go on a camping trip to sort it all out. Robert, with his reputation for being a smart-alec, has Read More

1994
China Moon

Crew: Director

Actors: Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Benicio Del Toro, Charles Dance, Patricia Healy

Synopsis: China Moon is a slick noir thriller, nice to look at, well-acted and directed, but ultimately predictable, even to its "surprise" ending. Kyle Bodine (Ed Harris) falls in love with Rachel Munro (Madeleine Stowe), the unhappily married wife of a drunken Southern aristocrat Rupert (Charles Dance). Read More

1994
In the Line of Fire

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood delivers one of his finest performances, as a secret service agent haunted by his past in Wolfgang Petersen's taut thriller In the Line of Fire. Eastwood plays Frank Horrigan, a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as an agent hand-picked by President Kennedy Read More

1993
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

1993
Groundhog Day

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty

Synopsis: Bill Murray plays Phil, a TV weatherman working for a local station in Pennsylvania but convinced that national news stardom is in his grasp. Phil displays a charm and wit on camera that evaporates the moment the red light goes off; he is bitter, appallingly self-centered, and treats his Read More

1993
A Brief History of Time

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Stephen Hawking

Synopsis: A Brief History of Time is based on cosmologist Stephen Hawking's 1988 bestseller of the same name. This anecdotal film concerns itself as much with Hawking's day-to-day life as it does with his unorthodox theories about the universe. Only the most close-minded viewer will be bothered by the Read More

8/21/92
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Synopsis: This filmed version of Lily Tomlin's successful one-woman performance piece is sometimes classified as a "documentary." However, it is one hundred percent from the show and contains nothing but that show, so it could also be classified simply as a comedy/satire. In any case, it features classic Read More

9/27/91
My Blue Heaven

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jesse Bradford, Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Melanie Mayron, Carol Kane

Synopsis: Herbert Ross directed this Nora Ephron-scripted buddy comedy starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack. Steve Martin plays Vinnie Antonelli, a street smart mobster who agrees to turn state's evidence and is forced to move to Fryburg, California as part of the witness relocation program. Rick Moranis Read More

8/17/90
Hollywood Mavericks

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich, D.W. Griffith, Erich Von Stroheim

Synopsis: This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the system." It also explores the life and work of earlier American mavericks through the tributes, reflections, and recollections of the first group. Prominent among the living Read More

1990
Time Flies When You're Alive

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Time Flies When You're Alive is, literally, a one man show. Repeating his stage performance, actor Paul Linke delivers an exhausting monologue on the subject of his wife's losing battle with cancer. Before the film's 80 minutes have elapsed, the audience is as emotionally drained as Linke. Despite Read More

1989
The Accidental Tourist

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Amy Wright, Bill Pullman

Synopsis: Director Lawrence Kasdan and Frank Galati adapted their screenplay for The Accidental Tourist from Anne Tyler's novel. William Hurt plays Macon Leary, a well-known "travel advisor" headquartered in Baltimore. The tragic death of Leary's son causes him to withdraw from the world, which in turn Read More

12/23/88
Vibes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Falk, Googy Gress, Julian Sands

Synopsis: Two hapless psychics unwittingly aid a criminal in his quest to obtain a mystic relic in this farcical adventure. Street smart beauty-school dropout Sylvia Pickel (Cyndi Lauper) navigates life with the counsel of a spirit named Louise, while genteel Nick Deezy (Jeff Goldblum) has the ability to Read More

8/5/88
Tough Guys Don't Dance

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Sandlund, Wings Hauser, John Bedford Lloyd

Synopsis: Norman Mailer wrote and directed this demented film noir, which takes place in a Provincetown of perpetual twilight. Most of the tale, based on his best-selling novel, is told in flashback as Dougy Madden (Lawrence Tierney) pays a visit to his son Tim (Ryan O'Neal). Dougy, a tough ex-bartender, is Read More

9/18/87
Swimming to Cambodia

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Spalding Gray, Sam Waterston, Ira Wheeler

Synopsis: By rights, an 87-minute filmed monologue should be as stimulating as watching paint dry. Ah, but when the monologist is the brilliant Spalding Gray, then the audience is in for a cerebral feast. Based on his one-man Broadway presentation, Swimming to Cambodia is a mesmerizing account of Gray's Read More

3/13/87
Light of Day

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Gena Rowlands, Joan Jett, Michael McKean, Thomas G. Waites

Synopsis: A brother and sister grapple with family and lifestyle issues in this rock-n-roll drama. Real-life rocker Joan Jett stars as Patti Resnick, an unwed mother who sings and plays guitar in a Cleveland bar band with her brother Joe (Michael J. Fox). Estranged from her parents and struggling to make Read More

2/6/87
Brighton Beach Memoirs

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Blythe Danner, Bob Dishy, Brian Drillinger, Stacey Glick, Judith Ivey, Jonathan Silverman

Synopsis: Brighton Beach Memoirs is the first of playwright Neil Simon's unofficial "autobiographical trilogy" (it was followed by Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound). Jonathan Silverman repeats his stage role as Simon's teenaged alter-ego Eugene, who lives in 1937 Brooklyn with his parents (Blythe Danner and Bob Dishy Read More

12/25/86
Crossroads

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Joe Morton, Robert Judd

Synopsis: A passion for blues music is evident in this drama based on a contest-winning script by former blues musician John Fusco -- and featuring one of the decade's best-received motion picture soundtracks, written and performed by Ry Cooder. Eugene Martone Ralph Macchio is a classically trained Read More

3/14/86
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Yasosuke Bando, Junya Fukuda, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Shigeto Tachihara

Synopsis: In Paul Schrader's unusual biopic, Ken Ogata stars as Yukio Mishima, perhaps the most celebrated Japanese novelist of the last five decades. The film begins with Mishima's youth, then moves forward in episodic fashion to his 1970 suicide, symbolically committed at a military site. Originally Read More

1985
Silverado

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, John Cleese

Synopsis: Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various plotlines converge at the town of Silverado, held in thrall by crooked sheriff Brian Dennehy and his behemoth "deputies." The four disparate heroes--Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn Read More

1985
Racing with the Moon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern, Nicolas Cage, John Karlen, Rutanya Alda

Synopsis: Sean Penn graduated to full stardom with the 1984 drama Racing with the Moon, even though the film itself hardly set new box office records. Set in the early years of World War II, the film stars Penn as a small-town teen-aged hotshot, six weeks away from being shipped out to fight overseas. In Read More

1984
The Pope of Greenwich Village

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan

Synopsis: Set on the streets of New York's Little Italy, this dramatic series of character studies chronicles the lives and relationships between a disparate pair of Italian American cousins. Both of them want to leave the poverty of ghetto life, but each takes a dramatically different route when one of Read More

1984
Without a Trace

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes, Stockard Channing, Jacqueline Brookes

Synopsis: Young divorced mother Kate Nelligan refuses to go into a panic when her six-year-old son disappears. She manages to maintain an even emotional keel even when detective Judd Hirsch unearths several clues which point to sexual molestation. After several false leads, the truth is revealed. We won't Read More

1983
The Big Chill

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, William Hurt, JoBeth Williams, Tom Berenger, Mary Kay Place, Meg Tilly

Synopsis: Embraced by the Baby Boomer generation and spawning countless imitators, the sophomore film of writer-director Lawrence Kasdan was a successful comedy-drama with a best selling soundtrack of Motown hits. Kevin Kline and Glenn Close star as Harold and Sarah Cooper, a couple whose marital troubles Read More

1983
Cat People

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O'Toole, Ruby Dee

Synopsis: In this loose adaptation of the 1942 horror classic of the same name, a 2001-style opening montage establishes some sort of sacrificial, mystical union between panthers and an ancient tribe of humans. Flash forward to 1980's New Orleans, where waifish Irina (Natassja Kinski) meets her older Read More

1982
That Championship Season

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Martin Sheen, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Adapted from Jason Miller's play which won the Pulitzer Prize, That Championship Season is about a group of men who, after 25 years, get together again for a high-school basketball team reunion. After drinking and chumming, the circle of friends soon find long-hidden anger and resentment Read More

1982
Continental Divide

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield, Carlin Glynn, Tony Ganios

Synopsis: Michael Apted directed and Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay for this diverting romantic comedy -- a film that attempts to recapture the spirit of an old Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn vehicle. A very subdued John Belushi plays a star columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times named Ernie Souchak Read More

1981
Honky Tonk Freeway

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Beau Bridges, Hume Cronyn, Beverly D'Angelo, William Devane, George Dzundza

Synopsis: In this involved send-up of two American icons -- the automobile and the tourist trap -- the tiny Florida town of Ticlaw strives desperately for success after it has been denied the most essential of all tourist amenities -- a freeway exit. The insane, and mostly successful, schemes of the mayor (William Devane Read More

1981
Ordinary People

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: Robert Redford's directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It is a simple but painfully emotional story of the disintegration of a "perfect" family. Teenager Conrad (Timothy Hutton) lives under a cloud of guilt after his brother drowns after their boat capsizes in Lake Read More

1980
Boulevard Nights

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Yniguez, Danny De La Paz, Marta Du Bois, James Victor, Betty Carvalho

Synopsis: A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of the gang, but he keeps finding himself drawn back into it. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
The Riddle of the Sands

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Simon MacCorkindale, Alan Badel, Jurgen Andersen

Synopsis: One of the earliest English spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers, is the basis for this movie. In the story, it is 1901, and England is at the height of its power and influence in the world. Arthur Davies (Simon MacCorkindale) is out sailing in his yacht in the North Sea. Off Read More

1979
American Gigolo

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt, Bill Duke

Synopsis: A slick Los Angeles callboy finds love and redemption in Paul Schrader's ultra-stylish drama. High-living prostitute Julian Kay (Richard Gere, stepping in for John Travolta) has it all: the Mercedes, the clothes, access to Beverly Hills' swankiest establishments, and a stable of rich, older female Read More

1979
The Mafu Cage

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Will Geer, James Olson

Synopsis: In this combination of domestic melodrama and offbeat suspense flick, an astronomer must shoulder the burden of caring for and sleeping with her mentally ill sister after their anthropologist father dies in Africa. Ellen (Lee Grant) and Cissy (Carol Kane) share a possibly incestuous relationship Read More

1978
Battered

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Karen Grassle, LeVar Burton, Mike Farrell, Chip Fields, Joan Blondell

Synopsis: Battered concentrates upon three female victims of spousal abuse. Chip Fields is the new wife of struggling young Levar Burton. Joan Blondell is the alcoholic middle-aged spouse of the equally bibilous Howard Duff. And Karen Grassle (who cowrote the screenplay) is married to Ivy leaguer Mike Farrell Read More

1978
Days of Heaven

Crew: Camera Operator

Actors: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative iconoclast with a story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. In 1916, Chicago steelworker Bill (Richard Gere Read More

1978
Legacy

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joan Hotchkis, George McDaniel, Sean Allan, Dixie Lee

Synopsis: This modestly budgeted feminist feature was written by actress Joan Hotchkis, who also stars. She plays a wealthy young wife who is sick to death of her well-ordered existence. She begins experimenting with any number of aberrations, ranging from bizarre mind games to what used to be called "self Read More

1975

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