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Allen Daviau

Cinematographer | Camera and Electrical Department | Actor

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Shot the digital camera tests for the Robert Zemeckis film The Polar Express. See more trivia »

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John Allen Daviau
in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Filmography

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2010 The Caretaker 3D (short)
 
2010 Ringling's Caravan (video short)
 
2008 Digital Video Essentials: HD Basics (video documentary) (special sequences)
 
2004 How to Be a Hollywood Player in Less Than Ten Minutes (short) (director of photography)
 
2004 Van Helsing
 
2004 ASC-DCI StEM (short)
 
2004 Olive or Twist 2004 (documentary)
 
2003 Digital Video Essentials (video documentary) (segments)
 
2002 The Routine (short)
 
2002 New Gladiators (documentary)
 
2001/I Sweet (short)
 
2000 The Translator (short)
 
1999 The Astronaut's Wife
 
1995 Congo
 
1994 Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell II - Picture Show (video) (director of photography / music video "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are")
 
1993 Fearless (director of photography)
 
1991 Bugsy (director of photography)
 
1991 Defending Your Life (director of photography)
 
1990 Avalon (director of photography)
 
1987 Empire of the Sun
 
1987 Harry and the Hendersons (director of photography)
 
1985 The Color Purple (director of photography)
 
1985 Amazing Stories (TV series)
– Ghost Train (1985) (director of photography)
 
1985 The Falcon and the Snowman
 
1985 The Doors: Dance on Fire (video documentary) (director of photography / video "LA Woman")
 
1983 Twilight Zone: The Movie (segments 2, 4)
 
1983 Legs (TV movie)
 
1982 Harry Tracy, Desperado
 
1982 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (director of photography)
 
1980 Rage! (TV movie)
 
1980 The Boy Who Drank Too Much (TV movie)
 
1979 The Streets of L.A. (TV movie)
 
1975 Names of Sin (short)
 
1975 Everything You Know Is Wrong
 
1974 Mother Tiger Mother Tiger
 
1973 The Brothers O'Toole
 
1971 Say Goodbye (documentary)
 
1971 Mooch Goes to Hollywood (TV movie)
 
1968 Amblin' (short) (photographed by)
 
Show ShowCamera and Electrical Department (8 titles)
1996 Video Essentials (video documentary) (photographer: Jenifer Wymore with test charts)
 
1984 Top Secret! (director of photography: additional photography)
 
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (director of photography: California)
 
1984 Racing with the Moon (director of photography: additional photography - uncredited)
 
1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (additional photography - 1980 special edition: Gobi Desert sequence - uncredited)
 
1971 Say Goodbye (documentary) (camera operator)
 
1967/II The Trip (assistant camera)
 
1967 Slipstream (short) (camera operator)
 
Show ShowActor (1 title)
2005 Cinema Scene (video)
Guest
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
2004 ASC-DCI StEM (short) (co-creator)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (1 title)
1992 Visions of Light (documentary) (co-chairman: ASC Education Committee)
 
Show ShowSpecial Effects (1 title)
1967/II The Trip (special psychedelic effects producer)
 
Show ShowThanks (10 titles)
2012 Dark Matters (short) (special thanks)
 
1972 The Godfather (thanks - 2007 restoration)
 
1974 The Godfather: Part II (thanks - 2007 restoration)
 
2004 Causality (short) (special thanks)
 
2003 Cultivating a Classic: The Making of 'The Color Purple' (video documentary short) (special thanks)
 
2003 A Collaboration of Spirits: Casting and Acting 'The Color Purple' (video documentary short) (special thanks)
 
2001 Hearts in Atlantis (thanks)
 
1998 Smoke Signals (thanks)
 
1992 Visions of Light (documentary) (special thanks: AFI)
 
1924 Greed (special thanks: 1999)
 
Show ShowSelf (20 titles)
2011 Lost Forever (documentary)
Himself
 
2011 These Amazing Shadows (documentary)
Himself
 
2008 No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Shootout (TV series)
Himself
– Brad Grey (2007) … Himself
 
2006 The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel (video documentary)
Himself
 
2006 Cinematographer Style (documentary)
Himself
 
2006 The Informer: Out of the Fog (video short)
Himself
 
2005 The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2003 Cultivating a Classic: The Making of 'The Color Purple' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2003 Tune in Trip Out (video short)
Himself
 
2003 Allen Daviau, ASC on Psychedelic Film Effects (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2002 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: 20th Anniversary Celebration (video documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Live at the Shrine! John Williams and the World Premiere of 'E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial': The 20th Anniversary (video)
 
2001 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Frank Capra's American Dream (TV documentary)
Himself - Interviewee
 
1996 The Making of 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial' (video documentary)
Himself
 
1995 Alien Autopsy: (Fact or Fiction?) (TV movie)
Himself
 
1994 Josef von Sternberg, the Man Who Made Dietrich (documentary short)
 
1992 Visions of Light (documentary)
Himself
 
1987 Citizen Steve (documentary short)
Himself - Cinematographer
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (1 title)
2003 Inventing Grace, Touching Glory (documentary)
Himself
 

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Director of photography for Meat Loaf music video "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" (1994). See more »

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