James A. Contner

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James A. Contner (born June 12, 1947 in the USA ) is an American cameraman and television director specializing in series.

Live and act

Contner began his professional career in the early 1970s as a camera assistant. In this role he was also involved in Steven Spielberg's shocker The Jaws in 1974 . Starting rotated with the 1977 first Superman - Movie worked Contner as a simple cameraman. Since 1979, when he made his debut with William Friedkins in the New York gay scene, the thriller Cruising , Contner has worked as chief cameraman. In this role, he mainly photographed action-packed material; since the mid-80s, Contner has concentrated on series television (including Miami Vice ).

Since making his debut on a 1986 episode of the Crime Story series , James Contner has focused on working as a television director. In this role he produced a large number of episodes of popular series: in addition to Miami Vice, The Night Hawk , 21 Jump Street , Fight Against the Mafia and seaQuest DSV . Since the turn of the millennium, Contner has staged primarily in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He turned a few episodes of Roswell , Smallville , Star Trek: Enterprise and Charmed - Magical Witch , but was in the early 2000s, especially with the majority of the consequences of the highly successful Vampire Slayer series Buffy - the Vampire Slayer and the buffy Spin Off Angel - hunters of darkness busy. Since 2007, Contner has also made individual, non-series television films, including Shark Swarm - Attack of the Sharks .

Filmography (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to the television archive of Kay Less , based on the US Public Records Index

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personal data
SURNAME Contner, James A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH United States