Barry Ackroyd - Turner Classic Movies

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Barry Ackroyd is a cinematographer, most known for collaborating with filmmaker and fellow Brit Ken Loach. Ackroyd began shooting initially for television. His third project, a 1989 documentary for TV called "A View from the Woodpile," was his first collaboration with Loach, and from there the two have gone on to work on numerous films together, among them the comedy "Riff-Raff" in 1991,...

Filmography

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Bombshell (2019)

Camera Operator

Outlaw King (2018)

Director Of Photography

Director Of Photography

Jason Bourne (2016)

Director Of Photography

The Big Short (2015)

Director Of Photography

Dark Places (2015)

Director Of Photography

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La Strada -- (Movie Clip) Macho Man

Mighty Quinn, The (1989) -- (Movie Clip) There's Been A Homicide

Biography

Barry Ackroyd is a cinematographer, most known for collaborating with filmmaker and fellow Brit Ken Loach. Ackroyd began shooting initially for television. His third project, a 1989 documentary for TV called "A View from the Woodpile," was his first collaboration with Loach, and from there the two have gone on to work on numerous films together, among them the comedy "Riff-Raff" in 1991, the romantic drama "My Name is Joe" in 1998, and the crime drama "Sweet Sixteen" in 2002. Loach is known as a fiercely independent director, resisting the bigger budgets and flash of Hollywood, and focusing on working-class people as subjects, and so Ackroyd's photography tends much more toward verisimilitude than spectacle. In 2006, Ackroyd teamed up with Paul Greengrass to shoot the challenging historical drama "United 93," about the hijacked 9/11 plane that crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Then in 2008, he worked with director Kathryn Bigelow on her much-lauded, bomb-squad-in-Iraq action-thriller, "The Hurt Locker," which, in addition to earning Best Picture and Best Director Oscars, also earned Ackroyd a cinematography nomination. In 2011, he would team up with Bigelow again on the TV drama "The Miraculous Year."

Filmography

Cinematography (Feature Film)

Bombshell (2019)

Camera Operator

Outlaw King (2018)

Director Of Photography

Director Of Photography

Jason Bourne (2016)

Director Of Photography

The Big Short (2015)

Director Of Photography

Dark Places (2015)

Director Of Photography

Captain Phillips (2013)

Director Of Photography

Parkland (2013)

Director Of Photography

Contraband (2012)

Director Of Photography

Coriolanus (2011)

Director Of Photography

The Special Relationship (2010)

Director Of Photography

Green Zone (2010)

Director Of Photography

Looking For Eric (2009)

Director Of Photography

The Hurt Locker (2008)

Director Of Photography

Battle in Seattle (2007)

Director Of Photography

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

Director Of Photography

Love + Hate (2005)

Director Of Photography

A Fond Kiss (2004)

Director Of Photography

Sweet Sixteen (2002)

Director Of Photography

Director Of Photography

The Navigators (2001)

Director Of Photography

The Lost Son (2001)

Director Of Photography

Very Annie Mary (2001)

Director Of Photography

The Escort (2000)

Director Of Photography

Bread and Roses (2000)

Director Of Photography

Beautiful People (2000)

Director Of Photography

My Name Is Joe (1998)

Director Of Photography

Under the Skin (1997)

Director Of Photography

Bumping the Odds (1997)

Director Of Photography

Stella Does Tricks (1996)

Director Of Photography

Carla's Song (1996)

Director Of Photography

Anne Frank Remembered (1995)

Director Of Photography

Land and Freedom (1995)

Director Of Photography

Tracking Down Maggie: The Unofficial Biography of Margaret Thatcher (1994)

Cinematographer

Director Of Photography

Ladybird, Ladybird (1994)

Director Of Photography

Raining Stones (1993)

Director Of Photography

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling Of A Serial Killer (1992)

Cinematographer

Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (1991)

Cinematographer

Too White For Me (1991)

Director Of Photography

Riff Raff (1991)

Director Of Photography

The Women's Olamal - The Origins of a Masai Fertility Ceremony (1985)

Cinematographer

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Bombshell (2019)

Dp/Cinematographer

Outlaw King (2018)

Dp/Cinematographer

Outlaw King (2018)

Dp/Cinematographer

Jason Bourne (2016)

Captain Phillips (2013)

Dp/Cinematographer

Coriolanus (2011)

Dp/Cinematographer

Green Zone (2010)

Dp/Cinematographer

The Hurt Locker (2008)

Dp/Cinematographer

Battle in Seattle (2007)

Dp/Cinematographer

A Fond Kiss (2004)

Dp/Cinematographer

Bread and Roses (2000)

Tracking Down Maggie: The Unofficial Biography of Margaret Thatcher (1994)

Director (Special)

The Cazalets (2001)

Film Production - Main (Special)

Making a Dishonest Buck (1992)

Cinematography (TV Mini-Series)

Director Of Photography

Out of Control (2002)

Director Of Photography

Misc. Crew (TV Mini-Series)

Dp/Cinematographer

Life Events

Photo Collections

Mark of the Vampire - Scene Stills

Here are a few scene stills from MGM's Mark of the Vampire (1935), starring Lionel Barrymore, Bela Lugosi, and Elizabeth Allen.

Videos

La Strada -- (Movie Clip) Macho Man Directed by her husband Federico Fellini, country-girl Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) at her first restaurant dinner with intoxicated roustabout strong-man Zampano (Anthony Quinn), who in-effect purchased her from her impoverished mother, and who soon becomes more interested in the barmaid (Anna Primula), in La Strada, 1954.

Mighty Quinn, The (1989) -- (Movie Clip) There's Been A Homicide In dress-whites at a wedding in the Jamaica-like (where it was shot) island nation, title character, police chief Denzel Washington takes an urgent call and nearly collides with childhood friend Maubee (Robert Townsend), early in The Mighty Quinn, 1989.

Suspiria (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Hey Taxi! Following narration over graphic credits establishing Jessica Harper as American dancer Suzy Bannion, arriving in Germany (Munich airport) from New York, there’s no doubt of writer-director Dario Argento’s direction, opening the gothic horror extravaganza Suspiria, 1977.

Suspiria (1977) -- (Movie Clip) There's A Murderer! Pat (Eva Axén, who mysteriously fled the German dance school where American heroine Jessica Harper just arrived) didn’t want to explain to Sonia (Susanna Javicoli) what happened, and it turns out real bad for them both, early in Dario Argento’s notorious horror spectacle, Suspiria, 1977.

Alice In The Cities (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Terrible Thing To Waste From the early, solo section of the trip, German freelance author Philip (Rudiger Vogler) making his way from southeast toward New York, where he'll meet the title character, with a visit from Henry Fonda in Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939, in Wim Wenders' Alice In The Cities, 1974.

Alice In The Cities (1974) -- (Movie Clip) She'll Join Us In Amsterdam Newly acquainted German travelers Philip (Rudiger Vogler) and Alice (Yella Rottlander) in Manhattan en route to meet her mother at the Empire State Building, which doesn't work out, thus launching their European journey, in Wim Wenders' Alice In The Cities, 1974.

Alice In The Cities (1974) -- (Movie Clip) What Does He Want From Us? Wim Wenders directs his protagonist, wandering German author Philip (Rudiger Vogler), to a Manhattan airline office, where he learns that the air traffic control strike back home is a problem, and meets Alice (Yella Rottlander) and Lisa (Elisabeth Kreuzer), in Alice In The Cities, 1974.

Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Open, There's A Bat In My House Co-writer (with Keenen Ivory Wayans), director, producer, star and self-financier Robert Townsend opens his famous independent feature, rehearsing in the bathroom, Craigus R. Johnson his little brother, Starletta DuPois his mother, Helen Martin his grandmother, Brad Sanders as “Batty,” in Hollywood Shuffle, 1987.

Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Black Acting School After a couple of introductory vignettes and with spicy language, writer-director Robert Townsend appears in the fantasy sequence, confirming that he’s imagining all this while waiting at a Hollywood audition, Grand L. Bush as both “Mandingo” and “Ricky Taylor,” also Tony Edwards, in Hollywood Shuffle, 1987.

Hollywood Shuffle (1987) -- (Movie Clip) Sneakin' In The Movies Another of the more famous digressions, director, co-writer, star and producer Robert Townsend as Bobby, fantasizing as he awaits word on his audition, with Jimmy Woodard as pal Tyrone, imagines himself hosting a knock-off Siskel & Ebert show, with still more not-usually appropriate language, in Hollywood Shuffle, 1987.

Sparkle (1976) -- (Movie Clip) She's Bustin' At The Seams Neat two opening scenes, introducing Phillip Michael Thomas and Dorian Harewood on the front steps, with Lonette McKee, Irene Cara and Dwan Smith as “Sister,” Sparkle and Delores, Mary Alice their mom, Beatrice Winde the neighbor, Sam O’Steen directing, in the cult hit (re-made by Whitney Houston in 2012), Sparkle, 1976.

Sparkle (1976) -- (Movie Clip) Hooked On Your Love Among the reasons for buzz about Lonette McKee, singing the lead as eldest sister “Sister,” backed up by 16 year-old Irene Cara (title character) and Dwan Smith (as Delores), with a Curtis Mayfield original, certainly more in the contemporary style than that of the setting, Harlem ca. 1958, in the fictional show-biz drama Sparkle, 1976.

Sparkle (1976) -- (Original Trailer) With voice-over from the ubiquitous DJ Kasey Kasem, and introductions for 16-year old Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, and Dwan Smith, with Philip Michael Thomas and Dorian Harewood in support, the original trailer for the semi-cult musical, re-made with Whitney Houston in 2012, Sparkle, 1976.

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