Jacques Haitkin
Jacques Adam Haitkin (born August 29, 1950 in the USA ) is an American cameraman .
Live and act
Haitkin attended the University of Miami at Coral Gables in the early 1970s before moving to Brooklyn . There he began his professional training at the Film School at New York University . He graduated from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles in 1973.
During his training, Haitkin shot his first (still short) film in 1972, Hot Dogs for Gauguin with the then unknown Danny DeVito . Haitkin was best known for his collaboration with director Wes Craven , for whom he photographed the 1983 horror film classic Nightmare - Murderous Dreams . In the future, too, Haitkin preferred to be behind the camera for horror stories, but also several times for science fiction and action films. None of the films he shot came above the quality of a B-picture. Haitkin served in the second unit of various A-productions such as The Expendables .
Haitkin had temporarily lived in Park City , Utah , as well as in San Francisco and Van Nuys (both California) and settled in Malibu in the early 1990s .
Filmography (cinema)
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Web links
- Jacques Haitkin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jacques Haitkin short biography on cinematographers.nl
- own website at jacqueshaitkin.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to the Kay Less film archive , based on the US Public Records Index.
- ↑ Film archive Less
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| SURNAME | Haitkin, Jacques |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haitkin, Jacques Adam (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |