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Michael Chapman

Nov 21, 1935 – Sep 20, 202074 titles 73 movies · 1 TV
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Biography

Michael Crawford Chapman, A.S.C. (November 21, 1935 – September 20, 2020) was an American cinematographer and film director well known for his work on many films of the American New Wave of the 1970s and in the 1980s with directors such as Martin Scorsese and Ivan Reitman. He shot more than forty feature films, over half of those with only three different directors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Chapman (cinematographer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born

Nov 21, 1935 – Sep 20, 2020

New York City, New York, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

27

Acting credits

49

Directing

1

Writing

10

Other crew

Most critically rated

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Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

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1965 1 title(s)

1968 1 title(s)

1970 3 title(s)

1971 2 title(s)

1972 2 title(s)

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