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A Stranger Is Watching (1981)

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Friday the 13th (1980)

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The Children (1980)

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Here Come The Tigers (1978)

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Hollywood On Trial (1976)

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The Private Files Of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

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Return To Campus (1975) -- (Original Trailer) a.k.a. The World's Greatest Kicker

Stir Crazy (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Our Lucky Town

Biography

Filmography

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A Stranger Is Watching (1981)

Director Of Photography

Friday the 13th (1980)

Director Of Photography

The Children (1980)

Director Of Photography

Here Come The Tigers (1978)

Director Of Photography

Hollywood On Trial (1976)

Director Of Photography

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The Private Files Of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)

Additional Photography

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Friday the 13th (1980)

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Hollywood On Trial (1976)

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Stir Crazy (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Our Lucky Town Fleeing New York for Hollywood, out-of-work actor Harry (Richard Pryor) and writer Skip (Gene Wilder) improvise when their van breaks down in a Western town, early in Stir Crazy, 1980.

Stir Crazy (1980) -- (Movie Clip) A Huge Misunderstanding! Jobless and headed to Hollywood, actor Harry (Richard Pryor) and writer Skip (Gene Wilder) are wrongly jailed for bank robbery in a desert town (shot in Tucson), and things go badly as they meet their public defender (Joel Brooks) and the local judge (Thomas Moore), in their hit follow-up to Silver Streak, Stir Crazy 1980.

Generation (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Death To The Occupiers! Polish teens Stach (Tadeusz Lonmicki) and Jacek (Ryszard Kotas), in Catholic school mandated by Nazi occupiers, then recruited by young partisans led by Dorota (Urszula Modrzynska), in Andrzej Wajda's Generation, 1955.

1776 (1972) -- (Movie Clip) Not Everyone Is From Boston Ken Howard as Thomas Jefferson is suffering writer's block, visited by impatient Adams (William Daniels) and more philosophical Franklin (Howard Da Silva), but hopes rise when Martha Jefferson (Blythe Danner) arrives from Virginia, in Sherman Edwards' musical 1776, 1972.

King Of Comedy (1983) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Expecting A Phone Call Aspiring comic Rupert (Robert DeNiro) at home, his nuttiness amplified with cardboard cut-outs of Liza Minnelli and Jerry Lewis as late-night host Jerry Langford, then making a show of following-up Jerry’s insincere instruction to call his office, in Martin Scorsese’s The King Of Comedy, 1983.

King Of Comedy (1983) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Give You The Six Weeks Would-be comic Rupert (Robert DeNiro) saying good night after he finagled a ride and made his pitch to late-night host Jerry Langford (Lewis), the handkerchief he swiped and then a scene that reveals itself to be a fantasy, early in Martin Scorsese’s The King Of Comedy, 1983.

King Of Comedy (1983) -- (Movie Clip) Say Hello To Jerry! Director Martin Scorsese’s opening, with real NBC announcer Ed Herlihy introducing Jerry Lewis as the Johnny Carson-like TV host Jerry Langford, Robert DeNiro as oddball Rupert Pupkin in the stage door crowd and Sandra Bernhard lurking in the limo, in The King Of Comedy, 1983.

Arthur (1981) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Alert The Media Wise-cracking drunken zillionaire Dudley Moore (title character), who brought hooker Gloria (Anne DeSalvo) to dinner at the Plaza in the opening scene, is awakened by servant Hobson (John Gielgud, in his Academy Award-winning role), in writer-director Steve Gordon’s Arthur, 1981.

Arthur (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Tell Him, Alfred! Discouraged millionaire Dudley Moore (title character), shopping with servant Hobson (John Gielgud) at Bergdorf's after agreeing to marry in order to stay rich, is fascinated by fellow shopper Linda (Liza Minnelli), Irving Metzman on security, in writer-director Steve Gordon's Arthur, 1981.

Arthur (1981) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Die Anymore Childish Manhattan millionaire Dudley Moore (title character) calls to tell Queens waitress Linda (Liza Minnelli) he’s getting married, her father (Barney Martin) not taking it well, then conferring with driver Bitterman (Ted Ross) and ailing servant Hobson (John Gielgud), in Arthur, 1981.

Maximum Overdrive (1986) -- (Movie Clip) On June 19th, 1987 Stephen King is writer and, for the only time in his career, director, executing his cameo in this opening sequence, shot economically in Wilmington, NC, in the unsuccessful exploitation of King's short story Trucks, Maximum Overdrive, 1986, starring Emilio Estevez and Pat Hingle.

Gloria (1980) -- (Movie Clip) That's Some Accident One-time gangster-gal Gena Rowlands (title character) has snapped, deciding she'll just abandon newly orphaned Phil (John Adames) in Manhattan, when some of the mobsters (led by Frank Belgiorno) chasing him arrive, in Gloria, 1980, by Rowlands' husband John Cassavetes.

Return To Campus (1975) -- (Original Trailer) a.k.a. The World's Greatest Kicker Theatrical trailer for the improbable independent feature, from not-too-prominent character actor Harold Cornsweet, turned writer, director and producer, for the college football fantasy Return To Campus, 1975, a.k.a. The World’s Greatest Kicker, with Hall Of Famer Tom Harmon as an announcer, and a bleeping gag on the ever-profane Ohio State coach Woody Hayes.

Stepping Out - (Original Trailer) A Broadway burn-out (Liza Minnelli) turns a tap-dancing class into a life-changing experience for all involved in Stepping Out (1991).

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