Jack Priestley

John "Jack" S. Priestley (born July 27, 1926 in New York City , United States , † May 26, 1993 in Los Angeles ) was an American cameraman .

Live and act

Priestley received his camera engineering training shortly after World War II and was involved in ambitious Cinerama widescreen documentaries as a camera assistant throughout the 1950s . In 1960, the New Yorker was promoted to chief cameraman and has since overseen a number of television productions in this role. These were mainly crime series, including classics such as Merciless City , Columbo and Cagney & Lacey . In addition, Priestley was chief cameraman for mostly less important movies - with the exception of the exciting cat-and-mouse thriller Bizarre Murders with Rod Steiger as a cunning psychopath and George Segal as his adversary - including the late Sinatra crime novel The First Deadly Sin , Burt Lancaster's The Midnight Man and the tough New York gangster war thriller Road to the Afterlife . It was productions that showed Priestley to be a solid craftsman.

For more weighty A-films, Priestley was limited to the function of a simple camera operator or second unit cameraman, for example in Otto Preminger's production So Gute Freunde , the extortion thriller Stop the journey of the subway 123 , the musical The Wiz - The magical land and the breakdance strip Beat Street . In the second part of Back to the Future , Priestley was the chief camera for the additional shots in the summer of 1989.

Awards

Priestley has been nominated several times for prizes and won the Primetime Emmy twice: in 1962 and 1963 for his camera work on Merciless City . Towards the end of his life, Jack Priestley also received the ASC Award from the American Cinematographers Association in 1992 for his performance on The Cases of Rosie O'Neill .

Filmography

only as a head cameraman

• 1960–1963: Merciless City (TV series)
• 1963–1964: East Side / West Side (TV series)
• 1965: For the People (TV series)
• 1965–1966: Seaway (TV series)
• 1966: Ages of Man
• 1966: A Man Called Adam
• 1967: Bizarre Murders (No Way to Treat a Lady)
• 1968: Roses for the Lady (The Subject Was Roses)
• 1969: stiletto
• 1970: Where's Papa? (Where's Poppa?)
• 1971: Born to Win
• 1972: Cutter
• 1972: Across 110th Street
• 1973: The Midnight Man
• 1974, 1990: Columbo (five episodes of the crime series)
• 1975: Strike Force - The Special Forces (Strike Force)
• 1975: The Silence
• 1976: Adventures of the Country Road (TV series)
• 1977: The Cherry Street Fiasco (Contract on Cherry Street)
• 1979: You Can't Come Home Again
• 1980: The First Deadly Sin (The First Deadly Sin)
• 1981: The Lady (Family Reunion)
• 1982: The Neighborhood
• 1985: The Lady with the Colt (TV series)
• 1987–1988: Cagney & Lacey (TV series)
• 1989: Hawk
• 1991: Chaos in Hollywood (The Hit Man)
• 1991–1992: The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (TV series)

Web links

• Jack Priestley in the Internet Movie Database (English)