IEC
#1: From interview [by Craft Truck]
#2: 2005
TOM RICHMOND
Born: 18 January 1950, Bronxville, NY, USA, as Thomas Julian Richmond.
Died: 29 July 2022, New York City, NY, USA.
Education: Harvard University [BA in Architecture/Photography]; UCLA [Masters Program Cinematography]; American Film Institute [graduated in 1979].
Career: Started as gaffer.
Ph music videos with a: Pearl Jam ['Jeremy'], Neil Young, Emmy Lou Harris, The Velvet Underground, The Go-Gos ['The Whole World's Lost It's Head', 1996, d: Roger Avary], Foo Fighters ['The One', 2002, d: Jesse Peretz], a.o. Ph commercials dir by Jesse Peretz, a.o.
Was also active as still ph. Published the photo books 'The Last American City' and 'Serious' [2000].
Was a member of the ASC since 2012.
Was adjunct professor of Advanced Cinematography at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Appeared in the doc 'Back to Hell' [2000, Alex Cox] about the cast and crew who worked on 'Straight to Hell' [1986].
Awards: Independent Spirit Award nom [1989] for 'Stand and Deliver'; Independent Spirit Award nom [1992] for 'Pastime'; Sundance FF Cinematography Award [2006] for 'Right at Your Door'.
| FILMS & INTERNET | |
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1980 |
Edge City/Sleep Is for Sissies [Alex Cox] c; short/40m; addph; ph: Michael Miner; filmed 1977-80; prod UCLA |
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1983 |
When the Bough Breaks [Ellen Sandler] c; short/30m; 2uc; ph: Toyomichi Kurita; prod AFI (USA) |
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1983 |
Running Hot/Highway to Hell/Lucky 13 [Mark Griffiths] c |
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1983 |
Hardbodies [Mark Griffiths] c; addph: Bob Weiss, Steve Wright & David Calloway |
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1983 |
Hard Rock Zombies [Krishna Shah] c; 2uc: Toyomichi Kurita; addph: Peter Austin |
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1984 |
Repo Man [Alex Cox] c; co-addph; ph: Robby Müller |
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1984 |
Night of the Comet [Thom Eberhardt] c; 2uc; ph: Arthur Albert |
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1984 |
The Malibu Bikini Shop/The Bikini Shop [David Wechter] c |
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1985 |
Troll [John Carl Buechler] c; addph USA; ph: Romano Albani |
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1985 |
Stand Alone [Alan Beattie] c; cph: Timothy Suhrstedt |
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1985 |
Salvador [Oliver Stone] c; uncred 2uc (+ c.op San Francisco seq); ph: Robert Richardson |
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1986 |
Chopping Mall/Killbots [Jim Wynorski] c; 2uc: Steve Carpenter |
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1986 |
Straight to Hell [Alex Cox] c; 86m; see 2010 |
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1986 |
Space Rage [: Breakout on Prison Planet]/Trackers/A Dollar a Day [Conrad Palmisano & Peter McCarthy] c; re-shoots ph; ph: Timothy Suhrstedt (February 1985); released December 1985; re-released, after some re-shoots, in December 1986 |
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1986 |
Hardbodies 2 [Mark Griffiths] c |
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1987 |
Stand and Deliver [Ramon Menendez] c |
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1987 |
Walker [Alex Cox] c; co-addph; ph: David Bridges |
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1988 |
The Chocolate War [Keith Gordon] c |
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1988 |
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka [Keenen Ivory Wayans] c; addph: Tom Sigel |
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1989 |
Pastime/One Cup of Coffee [Robin B. Armstrong] c |
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1990 |
Roadside Prophets [Abbe Wool] c |
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1990 |
Heaven Is a Playground [Randall Fried] c |
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1991 |
A Midnight Clear [Keith Gordon] c |
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1992 |
Phone [Tim Pope] 16mm/c; short/30m |
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1993 |
Killing Zoe [Roger Avary] c |
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1993 |
Straight to One [Ethan Hawke] b&w; short/20m |
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1993 |
Love and a .45 [C.M. Talkington] c; 2uc: John L. Demps Jr. & Scott E. Steele |
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1994 |
Little Odessa [James Gray] s35/c |
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1994 |
Homage [Ross Kagan Marks] c |
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1995 |
Johns [Scott Silver] c |
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1995 |
The Winner [Alex Cox] c; pickup ph Las Vegas & Los Angeles; ph: Denis Maloney |
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1995 |
Mother Night [Keith Gordon] c |
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1996 |
Hell's Kitchen [N.Y.C] [Tony Cinciripini] prod postponed; replaced by doph Michael Spiller (1997) |
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1996 |
First Love, Last Rites [Jesse Peretz] c |
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1997 |
Oakland Underground [Michael A. Goorjian] c |
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1997 |
Slums of Beverly Hills [Tamara Jenkins] c; 2uc: Robert Bennett |
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1998 |
Waking the Dead [Keith Gordon] c |
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1998 |
Wild Horses/Lunch Time Special [Soleil Moon Frye & Meeno Peluce] c |
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1998 |
Call Waiting [Michael Goorjian] c; short/12m |
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1998 |
Gun Shy [Eric Blakeney] c |
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1999 |
The Nightingale and the Rose [Barbara Peacock] c; short/30m; project about homeless people was in pre-prod trying to find the necessary funds; it's unknown if it was ever realized |
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1999 |
Knockaround Guys [Brian Koppelman & David Levien] s35/c; 2uc: Richard Rutkowski |
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1999 |
Chelsea Walls/Chelsea Hotel [Ethan Hawke] dv-to-35mm/c; cph: Richard Rutkowski |
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2000 |
Back to Hell [Alex Cox] c/V; doc/23m; cph: Todd Darling |
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2000 |
The Château [Jesse Peretz] dv-to-35mm/c |
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2000 |
House of 1000 Corpses [Rob Zombie] c; cph: Alex Poppas |
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2000 |
Hardball/Hard Ball [Brian Robbins] c |
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2001 |
I'm with Lucy/Autour de Lucy [Jon Sherman] c; aph: John Trapman |
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2002 |
The Singing Detective [Keith Gordon] c |
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2002 |
Prey for Rock & Roll [Alex Steyermark] HD-to-35mm/c; addph; ph: Antonio Calvache |
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2002 |
Ethan and Alan [C.M. Talkington] c; short/12m |
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2003 |
Monster [Patty Jenkins] c; addph; ph: Steven Bernstein |
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2003 |
Nobody's Perfect [Hank Azaria] c; short/25m |
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2003 |
Palindromes [Todd Solondz] c |
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2004 |
Eric Clapton: Sessions for Robert J [Stephen Schible & (co-dir UK) Chris Hilson] HD (Sony F900)/c/V; mus doc/97m; ph UK: Toru Kogure |
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2005 |
Right at Your Door [Chris Gorak] s16-35bu/c |
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2005 |
The Ex/Fast Track [Jesse Peretz] c; addph: Eric Schmidt |
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2005 |
The Need [Chris Young] dv/c; short/12m |
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2006 |
Chapter 27 [J.P. (Jarrett) Schaefer] c; 2uc: Michael Simmonds |
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2006 |
Outside the Box [Willard Carroll] announced |
[Right] with Michael Goorjian [left] - "The War Prayer"
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2007 |
The War Prayer [Michael A. Goorjian] c; short/10m |
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2007 |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist [Peter Sollett] c; 2uc: Michael Slovis |
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2008 |
Quit [Dick Rude] HD (XDCAM)/c; addph: Amy Vincent |
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2008 |
The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll [Scott Rosenbaum] c; addph: Brad Holland |
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2008 |
Stanley Rubin: A Work in Progress [Kellett Tighe] c; doc/49m; cph: Kahlil Hudson |
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2009 |
All About Evil [Joshua Grannell] HD (Sony EX3 & F900)/c |
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2009 |
7 Chinese Brothers/Seven Chinese Brothers [Bob Byington] announced as doph, but film was ph by Adam Ginsberg in 2014 |
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2010 |
Children of the Spider [Jeff Vespa] RED/c; short/11m |
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2010 |
Balls to the Wall [Penelope Spheeris] announced as doph, but film was ph by Christopher Popp in 2010 |
"Dead of Nowhere"
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2010 |
Dead of Nowhere [Chris Young] Silicon Imaging SI-2K-to-D-Cinema (3-D version)/c; short/10m |
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2010 |
Should've Been Romeo [Marc Bennett] c; 2uc (+ co-add c.op): Alex Vendler |
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2010 |
Straight to Hell Returns [Alex Cox] c; re-cut (91m) version of 'Straight to Hell' (1986) + new sfx; new color scheme superv by Tom Richmond |
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2011 |
My Eleventh [Gary Entin] c |
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2011 |
Gods Behaving Badly [Marc Turtletaub] announced as ph, but replaced by Tak Fujimoto |
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2011 |
Michael & Javier [Marc Thomas] RED+HD (Sony)-to-scope/c; short/24m; cph: Maceo Bishop; addph: Christine Ng (+ c.asst) & Daniel McKeown |
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2012 |
Commuters - a film [Tom Richmond] c; comm short/5m; part #3 of 3-part series 'muse2music', commissioned by the Association of Music Producers |
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2012 |
A Birder's Guide to Everything [Rob Meyer] HD scope/c; 2uc: Lyle Vincent; feature adaptation of R. Meyer's short film 'Aquarium' (2007) |
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2012 |
All That I Am/Burma [Carlos Puga] HD/c |
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2013 |
Envelopes [Nick Weiss-Richmond] c; short/12m; prod Columbia University |
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2014 |
Leviticus [Jordan Mattos] ? |
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2014 |
My Art [Laurie Simmons] c; addph: Daniel McKeown, Chris Heinrich & Joe Anderson |
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2015 |
Visit 57/Thirty Minutes [Kate Phelan] c; short/12m |
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2015 |
Little Boxes/Nowhere Ever After [Rob Meyer] c; for Netflix |
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2016 |
Untitled Documentary [Stephen Schible] c; doc/?m; cph: Neo Sora & Yutaka Yamazaki |
| TELEVISION | |
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|
1982 |
Powerhouse [ep #1-10 & #12-15 dir by uncred (#1-2 & 6), Michael Switzer (#3, 5 & 13-15), John Allman (#4, 8 & 10), Paul Dunlap (#9) & John Gray (#7 & 12)] 18-part (2 unaired) series/16mm, 1982-83; other ph: Peter Reniers (#11) & Tony Louis Cutrono (#16); for PBS-tv |
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1989 |
Amityville: The Evil Escapes/The Amityville Horror: The Evil Escapes, Part 4 [Sandor Stern] tvm |
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1989 |
Trying Times [ep #9 'Death and Taxes' dir by Jon Denny] 12-part series, 1987-89; 2nd season, 1989; other ph: Angel Goded, Henner Hofmann, Tony Kuhn & Guillermo Navarro; for PBS-tv |
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1990 |
I'll Be Home for Christmas [Robert Diaz-LeRoy] tvm/30m; uncred 2uc (+ efx c.op); ph: David Mullen; for Universal Television's Hispanic Film Project |
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1990 |
Nightmare on the 13th Floor [Walter Grauman] tvm |
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1992 |
Accidentally on Purpose [Tim Pope] pilot; for Nickelodeon-tv |
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1992 |
Death and the Compass/La muerte y la brújula [Alex Cox] tvm/57m; Labyrinth ph; ph: Miguel Garzón; ep BBC-tv series 'Screenplay'; in 1993 an extra 40m were shot and a feature version (96m) was completed in 1996 |
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1994 |
Mr. Stitch [Roger Avary] tvm; the first 'original' aired by Sci-Fi Channel; filmed 1994-95 |
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1996 |
The Twilight of the Golds [Ross Kagan Marks] tvm; also released theatrically |
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1996 |
David Blaine: Street Magic [David Blaine] doc/45m; cph: Jake Clennell & Mike Goldecke |
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2000 |
[Emmanuelle -] A Hard Look [Alex Cox] doc/60m; cph: Emma Jensen, Gary Young, a.o. |
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2002 |
Shiritsu tantei Hama Maiku/Mike Hama - Private Detective [ep #11 'Man Woman, Woman Man/Mike Hama Must Die!' dir by Alex Cox] 12-part Japanese series |
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2003 |
Cold Case [pilot 'Look Again' dir by Mark Pellington] 156-part series, 2003-10; 1st season, 2003-04 (23 ep); other ph: Eric Schmidt & Patrick Cady |
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2004 |
Tanner on Tanner [Robert Altman] 4-part miniseries; cph: Robert Reed Altman |
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2004 |
Tilt [ep #1 'The Game' dir by Brian Koppelman & David Levien, #2 'Risk Tolerance' dir by T.J. Scott & #3 'The Whale' dir by Jeremiah Chechik] 9-part series, 2005; Las Vegas ph |
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2006 |
Fallen [Kevin Kerslake] 4-part miniseries, 2007; 2uc: Michael Wale; followed tvm (2006) dir by Mikael Salomon and ph by Jon Joffin; for ABC Family |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
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1973 |
Lord of the Universe [David Loxton; tv-doc/58m] co-c.op; ph: Paul Goldsmith |
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1982 |
Valley Girl/Bad Boyz/Rebel Dreams [Martha Coolidge] electrician; ph: Fred Elmes |
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1996 |
Hype! [Doug Pray; mus doc] co-c.op; ph: Robert Bennett |
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2003 |
Inland Empire [David Lynch] co-add c.op; ph: D. Lynch; prod started in 2003; released in 2006 |
