2005

JOHN NEWBY ASC

Born: ?, as John C. Newby.

Education: Boston University [Film/TV Production].

Career: 'My mother gave me her Kodak Brownie Hawkeye bellows camera when I was 9. I used the 'light meter' on the film box and was amazed by the images that came out of that camera. I was also fascinated by each week's issue of 'Life', which had real-life images from around the world that were so well shot. At Boston University, while minoring in film/television production, I apprenticed to become a licensed projectionist, running old arc-light projectors in 3,000-seat theaters. I was entranced by that beam of light passing through a 35mm rectangle onto a huge screen. Later, I ran the film labs and edited news film at Boston TV stations. When 'The Brink's Job' came to Boston, I worked on huge night scenes as one of 16 arc-lamp operators. I was getting closer to the camera, but I was still 75 yards away! [...] Ed Hershberger got me on a job loading Photo-Sonics cameras for car crashes at a test track.' [From the ASC website.]

Member of the ASC since 2002.

Awards: ASC TV Award nom [2005] for 'Las Vegas' [ep #54 'Everything Old is You Again' dir by David Solomon].

Website: John C. Newby

FILMS

1981	My Mother, My Daughter [Nadia Werba] 16mm/c
1982	Eva's Dreams [Nadia Werba] 16mm/c; cph: Marcel Hanoun; filmed in 8 days
1984	Chords of Fame [Michael Korolenko & John Bloomgarden] 16mm/c; mus doc/88m; cph: Ed Hershberger
1989	Dead Women in Lingerie [Erica Fox] c
1993	Coneheads [Steve Barron] c; 2uc; ph: Francis Kenny
1993	Red Sun Rising [Francis Megahy] c/V; addph: Donald M. Jones; 2uc: James A. Lebovitz & Bill O'Drobinak
1993	Deadly Ice [William Tannen] c
1993	The Fence/The Outsider [Peter Pistor] c
1993	Jason's Lyric [Doug McHenry] c; 2uc; ph: Francis Kenny
1995	Vicki G. and the New Alchemy [Sean Meredith] c; ?/21m; cph (Boston, 1992): Maxwell Newton
1995	The Disappearance of Kevin Johnson [Francis Megahy] c; dram doc/105m; released in 1997
1995	Aurora: Operation Intercept/Nightwatch [Paul Levine] c; addph: James A. Lebovitz & Larry Reibman; 2uc: Joseph Montgomery; vfx ph: Eric Swenson
1996	Dirty Laundry [Michael Normand & Robert Sherwin] c
1996	Bulletproof [Ernest Dickerson] p/c; 2uc; ph: Steven Bernstein
1997	Stringer [Klaus Biedermann] c; filmed 1997-98
2000	Desert Saints [Richard Greenberg] c
2002	In Smog and Thunder [- The Great War of the Californias] [Sean Meredith] c; mockumentary/46m; ph interiors (mdv); ph: Sandow Birk, Sean Meredith & Laurie Steelink

TELEVISION & INTERNET

1990	The Flash [pilot dir by Robert Iscove, ep #14 'Be My Baby' dir by Bruce Bilson & #15 'Fast Forward' dir by Gus Trikonis] 22-part series, 1990-91; other ph: Sandi Sissel (cph pilot), Francis Kenny & Greg Gardiner (+ 2uc pilot)
1992	Paula Abdul [Jesse Vaughan] mus special/?m; ep series 'VH1 to One'
1992	The Water Engine [Steven Schachter] tvm; co-2uc; ph: Bryan England
1992	Inferno/Inferno! [Ellen Von Unwerth] tvm/52m
1992	Sexual Healing [Howard Cushnir] tvm/40m; Howard Cushnir made some money writing screenplays but, like many screenwriters, what he really wanted was to direct. He decided to finance his own movie - but only had enough to make a rough demo reel. And he felt guilty asking dozens of film professionals and vendors to donate time and products just to benefit his career. Turning the project into a charitable event solved both his problems. 'So, as soon as we started to say this was an AIDS benefit, people started donating all kinds of stuff. We got lighting equipment and film stock and a 40-foot semi.' The free services enabled him to make a film that looked good enough for Showtime-tv to buy it. [Steve Weinstein in the Los Angeles Times, 1993.]
1994	Confronting Brandon: The Intervention of an Addict/Intervention of an Addict: The Brandon Clifton Story [Iris Dugow] docudrama/30m; ep #12 of series 'Life Stories: Families in Crisis'
1994	Unter Druck/Mann unter Druck/Under Pressure [Peter Pistor] tvm
1995	The Christmas Box [Marcus Cole] tvm
1996	Timepiece [Marcus Cole] tvm; prequel to 'The Christmas Box' (1995)
1997	The Defenders: Payback [Andy Wolk] tvm
1997	The Defenders: Choice of Evils [Andy Wolk] tvm
1998	The Christmas Wish [Ian Barry] tvm
1998	The Defenders: Taking the First [Andy Wolk] tvm
1998	Cab to Canada [Christopher Leitch] tvm
1998	Vanished Without a Trace [Douglas Barr] tvm
1999	Silk Hope [Kevin Dowling] tvm
1999	Going Home [Ian Barry] tvm
1999	Santa and Pete [Duwayne Dunham] tvm
2000	Alien Fury [: Countdown to Invasion] [Rob Hedden] tvm; 2uc: Christopher Gosch
2000	That's Life [ep #13 'Heart Problems' dir by Michael Switzer, #14 'Touched by a Biker' dir by Anthony Cowley, #15 'Mr. Wrong' dir by Christopher Monger & #16 'Or What's a Heaven For?' dir by Paul Edwards, #17 'Banister Head' dir by Jack Bender & #18 'Miracle at the Cucina' dir by Rachel Talalay] 36-part (4 unaired) series, 2000-02; 1st season, 2000-01; other ph: David J. Miller & Feliks Parnell; 2uc: Daniel Turrett
2001	Chestnut Hill [Don Scardino] pilot; for NBC-tv
2002	Lizzie McGuire [21 ep (incl #65 'Magic Train' dir by Henry Chan - aired February 2004) dir by various] 65-part series, 2001-04; 2nd season, 2002-03 & 2004; other ph: Russ Alsobrook
2002	Boomtown [14 ep dir by various] 24-part series, 2002-03; 1st season, 2002-03; other ph: Denis Lenoir (pilot & ep #2-4); 2uc & addph: Christopher Probst
2003	Young MacGyver [Stephen Herek] pilot/s35-to-v; for WB-tv
2003	Vegas Dick [Frederick King Keller] pilot; uwph: Tom Boyd; for UPN-tv
2003	Boomtown [6 ep dir by various] 2nd season, 2003 (6 ep; 4 unaired); see 2002
2004	Wanted [Gregory Hoblit] pilot; for CBS-tv
2004	Las Vegas [all (24) ep dir by various] 106-part series, 2003-08; 2nd season, 2004-05; addph: Michael Negrin
2005	Las Vegas [all (23) ep dir by various] 3rd season, 2005-06; see 2004
2006	Las Vegas [all (17) ep dir by various] 4th season, 2006-07; see 2004
2007	Las Vegas [all (19) ep dir by various] 5th season, 2007-08; see 2004
2007	Lipstick Jungle [various] 20-part series, 2008-09; addph; ph: Fred Murphy & David Dunlap
2008	The Middleman [11 ep dir by various] 12-part series; other ph (pilot): Doug Koch
2009	HawthoRNe [9 ep dir by various] 30-part series/HD (ARRI D-21), 2009-11; 1st season (10 ep), 2009; other ph (pilot): Peter Menzies Jr.
2009	Slow Burn [Tanner Kling & Chris Hanada] 10-part web series; web-based spin-off of NBC-tv series 'Heroes'
2009	Heroes [ep #65 'Tabula Rasa' dir by James Chory & #78 'Brave New World' dir by Adam Kane] 78-part series, 2006-10; 4th season, 2009-10; addph (#65) & ph (#78); ph (#65): Charlie Lieberman & Nate Goodman
2010	Nurse Jeffrey [: Bitch Tapes] [various] 13-part ('appisodes') (x 2m15s to 3m06s) series; spin-off from the series 'House M.D.' (2004-12); was accessible via an iTunes app, later internet (Fox-tv website)
2010	The Cape [ep #2 'Tarot' dir by Deran Sarafian (DS), #5 'Dice' dir by Michael Nankin, #6 'Goggles and Hicks' dir by DS, #8 'The Lich: Part 2' dir by Roxann Dawson & #10 'Endgame' dir by Ernest Dickerson] 10-part series/RED, 2011; 2uc (ep #2): Jonathan West; other ph: Barry Peterson (pilot) & Michael Negrin
2011	Cooper & Stone [John Dahl] pilot presentation (= incomplete pilot)/HD; for The CW (CBS/Warner Bros.)
2011	Ringer [21 ep dir by various] 22-part series/HD, 2011-12; other ph (pilot/35mm): Sarah Cawley; for The CW
2012	CSI: NY [ep #182 'Where There's Smoke...' dir by Skipp Sudduth & #184 'Unspoken' dir by Duane Clark] series, 2004-present; 9th season/HD (Sony F35), 2012-13; other ph: Joseph Broderick & John C. Flinn III

MISCELLANEOUS

1977	Between the Lines [Joan Micklin Silver] co-prod asst; ph: Kenneth Van Sickle
1978	The Brink's Job [William Friedkin] arc-lamp operator; ph: Norman Leigh
1980	We're Fighting Back [Lou Antonio; tvm] best boy electric; ph: Richard E. Brooks
1980	Friday the 13th, Part 2 [Steve Miner] best boy; ph: Peter Stein
1981	The Soldier [James Glickenhaus] best boy; ph: Robert M. Baldwin
1981	Fighting Back/Death Vengeance [Lewis Teague] best boy; ph: Franco Di Giacomo
1982	My Palikari/Silent Rebellion [Charles S. Dubin; tvm] gaffer; ph: Ennio Guarnieri
1982	Once Upon a Time in America [Sergio Leone] gaffer New York; ph: Tonino Delli Colli
1983	Death Mask/Unknown [Richard Friedman] gaffer; ph: Yuri Denysenko
1983	Latino [Haskell Wexler] co-gaffer; ph: Tom Sigel
1985	Kane & Abel [Buzz Kulik; tv-miniseries] gaffer New York; ph: Mike Fash
1985	Under Siege [Roger Young; tvm] gaffer; ph: Peter Stein
1986	Women of Valor [Buzz Kulik; tvm] gaffer; ph: Mike Fash
1986	Stones for Ibarra [Jack Gold; tvm] gaffer; ph: Mike Fash
1986	I Love N.Y. [Alan Smithee (= Gianni Bozzacchi)] gaffer New York; ph: Armando Nannuzzi
1986	The Whales of August [Lindsay Anderson] chief lighting tech; ph: Mike Fash
1987	Stealing Home [Steven Kampmann & William Porter] gaffer; ph: Bobby Byrne
1987	The Wonder Years [ep #3-6 dir by various; tv-series] c.op; ph: Thomas Sigel (#3) & Sandi Sissel (#4-6)
1987	Sticky Fingers [Catlin Adams] gaffer; ph: Gary Thieltges
1988	Do the Right Thing [Spike Lee] c.op; ph: Ernest Dickerson
1988	Gideon Oliver [ep #1 'Sleep Well, Professor Oliver' dir by John Patterson; tv-series] c.op; ph: Frank Prinzi
1988	Dream Street [4 ep dir by various; tv-series] c.op; ph: Robert Elswit
1989	Sweet Bird of Youth [Nicolas Roeg; tvm] c.op; ph: Francis Kenny
1989	Mo' Better Blues [Spike Lee] c.op; ph: Ernest Dickerson
1990	Criminal Justice [Andy Wolk; tvm] c.op; ph: Steven Fierberg
1990	New Jack City [Mario Van Peebles] c.op; ph: Francis Kenny
1990	The Flash [ep #3-13 dir by various; tv-series] c.op; ph: Francis Kenny