Stephen H. BurumFilmography

Born:: Visalia, CA
Occupation:: Cinematographer
Biography:: California-born cinematographer Stephen H. Burum matriculated from student to instructor at the UCLA film school in the 1960s. He applied his skills first to government films, then to public television, where he won an Emmy for his other-worldly special effects on the 1978 series Cosmos. On...Read More

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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

2006
Outback House [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

2005
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Megan Fox, Adam Garcia, Glenne Headly, Alison Pill

Synopsis: British actress/director Sara Sugarman makes her U.S. feature debut with the Disney-produced comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, based on the young-adult novel by Dyan Sheldon and adapted for the screen by Gail Parent. The story concerns a popular urban teenager named Mary Elizabeth Cep (Lindsay Lohan Read More

2/20/04
Life or Something Like It

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns, Tony Shalhoub, Christian Kane, Stockard Channing, Melissa Errico

Synopsis: An egotistical TV reporter learns to appreciate the good things in life thanks to an eccentric, homeless clairvoyant in this old-fashioned romantic comedy from director Stephen Herek (Mr. Holland's Opus). Seattle native Lanie Kerrigan (Angelina Jolie) has spent most of her adult existence trying Read More

4/26/02
Apocalypse Now Redux

Crew: Additional Cinematography

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Francis Coppola had more than his share of production difficulties while shooting his epic-scale Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now, including disastrous weather conditions, problems with his leading men (Harvey Keitel was fired after less than two weeks on the project and was replaced by Martin Read More

8/3/01
Mission to Mars

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell

Synopsis: Brian De Palma directed this science-fiction suspense story. When the United States sends its first manned mission to Mars, hopes are high for new scientific discoveries, but many of those hopes are dashed when the Mars crew meets an unexplained disaster; three members of the mission are killed Read More

3/10/00
Mystery Men

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, William H. Macy, Paul Reubens, Janeane Garofalo, Kel Mitchell, Wes Studi, Greg Kinnear, Geoffrey Rush

Synopsis: Can seven not-so-superheroes save a city of the future? Based on the comic book series created by Bob Burden, Mystery Men is set in the teeming metropolis of Champion City, where noble superhero Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear) keeps the peace and sees that justice is done. When Captain Amazing Read More

8/6/99
Snake Eyes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Brian DePalma directed this taut thriller, set in Atlantic City, where a corrupt cop investigates a political assassination. Outside an Atlantic City arena-hotel-casino, a TV news reporter stands in a pre-hurricane storm to report on the heavyweight boxing match about to begin inside. A transition Read More

1998
Fathers' Day

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nastassja Kinski, Charlie Hofheimer

Synopsis: Two of the screen's most popular comic actors meet in this movie about two men brought together by unexpected circumstances. On the surface, Jack Lawrence (Billy Crystal) and Dale Putley (Robin Williams) wouldn't appear to have much in common. Jack is an efficient, serious-minded lawyer with a Read More

1997
Mission: Impossible

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno

Synopsis: After he is framed for the death of several colleagues and falsely branded a traitor, a secret agent embarks on a daring scheme to clear his name in this spy adventure. Though it drew its name from the familiar television series, director Brian DePalma's big-budget adaptation shares little more Read More

5/22/96
The Shadow

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen

Synopsis: A crime fighter created in the 1930s and popularized in movies, pulp novels, and a radio show starring a young Orson Welles, The Shadow came back to life in 1994 in this slick, well-cast production. Alec Baldwin stars as Lamont Cranston, a murderous opium dealer reformed by a Tibetan mystic, who Read More

1994
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
Carlito's Way

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, Luis Guzman, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: Carlito's Way is a tale of a former hood trying to escape his former life. Al Pacino is Carlito Brigante, a high-level Puerto Rican drug dealer sprung from a three-decade jail sentence after only five years, thanks to a technicality and his sleazy, cocaine-addled lawyer, Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Read More

1993
Hoffa

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J.T. Walsh, John C. Reilly

Synopsis: The life of powerful union leader Jimmy Hoffa is the subject of this biographical drama. The focus is strongly on Hoffa's public and political life, from his early days as a labor organizer to his later conflicts with the Federal government -- and, eventually, his mysterious disappearance. ~ Judd Read More

12/25/92
Raising Cain

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer, Frances Sternhagen, Gregg Henry

Synopsis: A complicated thriller, directed with great visual style by Brian De Palma, Raising Cain is the story of twin brothers, Carter and Josh (John Lithgow), one good and one evil, who will stop at nothing to find children to further their father's psychological experiments. John Lithgow is outstanding Read More

8/7/92
Man Trouble

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Beverly D'Angelo, Paul Mazursky, Harry Dean Stanton, Michael McKean

Synopsis: Actor Jack Nicholson, writer Carole Eastman, and director Bob Rafelson re-team 22 years after their classic Five Easy Pieces, for this romantic comedy. Nicholson plays Harry Bliss, a small potatoes security expert unhappily married to a Japanese woman (he sarcastically calls her Iwo Jima during Read More

7/17/92
He Said, She Said

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Perkins, Nathan Lane, Anthony LaPaglia, Sharon Stone

Synopsis: Real-life sweethearts and film directors Ken Kwapis and Marisa Silver co-directed this throwback to the silver-screen romantic comedies of the 1940s, examining the different ways men and women view reality. Kwapis takes the male character's point of view, recalling a burgeoning relationship. Read More

2/22/91
The War of the Roses

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin

Synopsis: Divorce lawyer Danny De Vito warns his prospective client that the story he's about to tell isn't a pretty one, but the client listens with eager intensity -- as do the folks out there in the movie in the audience. The War of the Roses can best be described as a slapstick tragedy concerning the Read More

12/8/89
Casualties of War

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: Casualties of War was based on a New Yorker article by Daniel Lang. This, in turn, was inspired by a true incident which illustrated the dehumanizing aspects of the Vietnam experience. Michael J. Fox plays Eriksson, a member of an American squadron stationed in the deepest jungles of Southeast Read More

8/18/89
Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Paul Benedict

Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1981 hit comedy Arthur, the story picks up where it left off with the bibulous millionaire hero (Dudley Moore) marrying poverty-stricken Linda Marolla (Liza Minnelli) instead of going through with a prearranged wealthy marriage. The vengeful father (Stephen Elliott) of the Read More

7/8/88
The Untouchables

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro

Synopsis: Like the TV series that shared the same title, The Untouchables (1987) was an account of the battle between gangster Al Capone and lawman Eliot Ness, this time in the form of a feature film boasting big stars, a big budget, and a script from respected playwright David Mamet. Kevin Costner stars as Read More

6/3/87
The Nutcracker: The Motion Picture

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hugh Bigney, Vanessa Sharp, Patricia Barker, Wade Walthall

Synopsis: The core and darker nuances of the original "Nutcracker" fairytale by E.T.A. Hoffman (with music by Tchaikovsky) are kept alive in this adept cinematic interpretation with its combination of ballet, special effects, and Maurice Sendak's costume and production designs. The Pacific Northwest Ballet Read More

11/26/86
8 Million Ways to Die

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Randy Brooks, Andy Garcia

Synopsis: Jeff Bridges plays an LA sheriff who loses his job due to his inability to stay away from booze. While attending an AA meeting, Bridges is invited to attend a party, where he meets the beauteous Alexandra Paul. Also at the party is an old enemy of Bridges', druggie Randy Brooks. It doesn't take Read More

4/25/86
The Bride

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sting, Jennifer Beals, Anthony Higgins, Clancy Brown, David Rappaport, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: In this update of James Whale's classic The Bride of Frankenstein, pop star Sting furthers his burgeoning film career by portraying cinema's signature mad scientist. Disgusted by his dim-witted and ugly original creation (Clancy Brown), Dr. Frankenstein sets out to animate an improved version. Read More

1985
St. Elmo's Fire

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Mare Winningham, Andie MacDowell

Synopsis: Post-collegiate angst, '80s style, is the subject of this coming-of-age ensemble piece, which traces the fortunes of a group of Georgetown grads as they enter the real world and grapple with work, infidelity, and adulthood. The most outwardly upscale member of the gang, Jules (Demi Moore), hides a Read More

1985
Body Double

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Melanie Griffith, Deborah Shelton, Guy Boyd

Synopsis: In Body Double, director Brian DePalma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies Vertigo and Rear Window, adding a few grotesque touches all his own. Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor who keeps losing jobs because of his claustrophobia. To make matters worse, his girlfriend has walked Read More

1984
Rumble Fish

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Herb Rice, Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid

Synopsis: One of two S.E. Hinton novels Francis Ford Coppola directed in 1983, Rumble Fish is a stylized black-and-white film about the death of gang culture in a rough-and-tumble town full of stunted youths. The central character is the strutting Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a foul-mouthed lunkhead clad in Read More

1983
The Outsiders

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe

Synopsis: Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the novel by S.E. Hinton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Outsiders tells the story of the ongoing conflict between the Greasers and the Socs in rural Oklahoma. C. Thomas Howell stars as Ponyboy, the Read More

1983
Uncommon Valor

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Randall "Tex" Cobb

Synopsis: Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Cal Rhodes, a former Marine Colonel who has been getting the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disappearance of his son and his buddies - all Marines who enlisted years prior and Read More

1983
Something Wicked This Way Comes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Royal Dano

Synopsis: After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Dr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition: that the grantees will forever join his freak show. Dr. Dark is after two young Read More

1983
The Entity

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye

Synopsis: Another "true story" of dubious authenticity, The Entity concerns a libidinous invisible presence. This unseen force repeatedly rapes poor Barbara Hershey, who can't get anyone to believe her stories of sexual assault. Frankly, she doesn't believe them herself until she undergoes therapy conducted Read More

1982
The Escape Artist

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Griffin O'Neal, Raul Julia, Teri Garr, Joan Hackett, Gabriel Dell

Synopsis: The Escape Artist represents the laudable directorial debut of cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. Griffin O'Neal, the real-life son of Ryan O'Neal, plays Danny Masters, the offspring of a famed magician. Determined to match his dad's accomplishment, Danny runs into nothing but trouble. His biggest Read More

1982
Death Valley

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Paul Le Mat, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie, Wilford Brimley, Peter Billingsley

Synopsis: While traveling across Arizona with his divorced mother and her new boyfriend, a precocious young boy stumbles onto a grisly murder scene, placing the three of them in mortal danger at the hands of a pair of good-ol'-boy twin psychopaths. It's hard to tell whether the producers of this film Read More

1981
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Some sort of Bad Timing Award must surely be bestowed upon the otherwise worthwhile Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story. David Keith stars as American athlete Wayne Robinson, whose main goal in life is to win the Olympic Decathlon. His dream is compromised when he falls in love with Soviet Read More

1980
Pacific High

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This documentary covers the action of the 1979 sailboat race from Newport to Ensenada. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
The House That Cried Murder

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Iva Jean Saraceni, Robin Strasser, John Beal, Arthur Roberts

Synopsis: This Canadian thriller was also released as The House That Cried Murder. Neurotic newlywed Robin Strasser finds her husband Arthur Roberts in bed with his old flame Iva Jean Saraceni. Robin doesn't get mad-she gets even. Using funds supplied by her wealthy daddy John Beal, the scorned bride turns Read More

1973

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