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Owen Roizman
Highest Rated: 98% The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Lowest Rated: 11% Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Birthday: Sep 22, 1936
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Began his career working on TV commercials in New York and shot his first feature, Bill Gunn's "Stop," in 1970. Roizman soon became known for his gritty, documentary-influenced urban compositions, particularly in films such as "The French Connection" (1971) and "The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3" (1974). Roizman formed a commercial production company, Roizman and Associates, in 1983 but returned to feature-film making in 1990 with Lawrence Kasdan's "I Love You To Death." Owen Roizman died on January 6, 2023 at the age of 86.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cinematographer | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 48% | 74% | French Kiss | Cinematographer | $36.4M | 1995 |
| 32% | 61% | Wyatt Earp | Cinematographer | $24.6M | 1994 |
| 67% | 66% | The Addams Family | Cinematographer | $111.3M | 1991 |
| 79% | 70% | Grand Canyon | Cinematographer | $32.3M | 1991 |
| 58% | 62% | I Love You to Death | Cinematographer | $14.9M | 1990 |
| 60% | 78% | Vision Quest | Cinematographer | - | 1985 |
| 91% | 81% | Tootsie | Cinematographer | - | 1982 |
| 69% | 53% | True Confessions | Cinematographer | - | 1981 |
| 81% | 63% | Absence of Malice | Cinematographer | - | 1981 |
| 64% | 57% | The Electric Horseman | Cinematographer | - | 1979 |
| 83% | 83% | Straight Time | Cinematographer | - | 1978 |
| 11% | 44% | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | Cinematographer | - | 1978 |
| 91% | 93% | Network | Cinematographer | - | 1976 |
| 87% | 82% | Three Days of the Condor | Cinematographer | - | 1975 |
| 68% | 65% | The Stepford Wives | Cinematographer | - | 1975 |
| 98% | 88% | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | Cinematographer | - | 1974 |
| 78% | 87% | The Exorcist | Cinematographer | $441.4M | 1973 |
| 97% | 89% | Play It Again, Sam | Cinematographer | - | 1972 |
| 96% | 87% | The French Connection | Cinematographer | - | 1971 |
| 20% | 26% | The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight | Cinematographer | - | 1971 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Stop | Cinematographer | - | 1970 |