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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.

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Highest-Rated Movies

98% 88% The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
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97% 87% The French Connection Watchlist
97% 89% Play It Again, Sam
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91% 93% Network
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91% 81% Tootsie Watchlist 87% 83% Three Days of the Condor Watchlist
82% 83% Straight Time
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81% 64% Absence of Malice
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79% 70% Grand Canyon
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78% 87% The Exorcist
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Cinematographer 2020 Actor French Kiss 48% 75% 1995 Cinematographer Wyatt Earp 31% 61% 1994 Cinematographer The Addams Family 67% 67% 1991 Cinematographer Grand Canyon 79% 70% 1991 Cinematographer Havana 28% 58% 1990 Cinematographer I Love You to Death 58% 62% 1990 Cinematographer Vision Quest 60% 78% 1985 Cinematographer Tootsie 91% 81% 1982 Cinematographer True Confessions 69% 53% 1981 Cinematographer Absence of Malice 81% 64% 1981 Cinematographer Taps 68% 67% 1981 Cinematographer The Black Marble 33% 55% 1980 Cinematographer The Electric Horseman 62% 57% 1979 Cinematographer Straight Time 82% 83% 1978 Cinematographer Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 11% 44% 1978 Cinematographer Network 91% 93% 1976 Cinematographer Three Days of the Condor 87% 83% 1975 Cinematographer The Stepford Wives 67% 65% 1975 Cinematographer The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 98% 88% 1974 Cinematographer The Exorcist 78% 87% 1973 Cinematographer Play It Again, Sam 97% 89% 1972 Cinematographer The French Connection 97% 87% 1971 Cinematographer The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight 20% 26% 1971 Cinematographer Stop 1970 Cinematographer
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