Thomas E. Ackerman
Camera
🎂 1948-09-14
Cinematographer Thomas Ackerman was born on 14 September, 1948 at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and enrolled in the University of Iowa, where he took a cinema course. He was hired by the university to shoot football games and training films for its School of Dentistry. In 1968 he went to work for Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Guggenheim, who became his mentor. After a stint in the US Air Force he went back to work for Guggenheim in Washington, DC. He moved to Los Angeles in 1973, hooked up with his Air Force buddy Mike Robeand was hired as a camera operator on a succession of Hollywood films, includingFrancis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart (1981). He was director of photography onBeetlejuice (1988) for director Tim Burton (for whom Ackerman had previously shotFrankenweenie (1984)). In addition to cinematographer, he has also served as a second-unit director, notably onAlvin and the Chipmunks (2007) and Furry Vengeance (2010).
Camera (40)
Director of Photography
1988
Director of Photography
1994
Director of Photography
2006
Director of Photography
2011
Director of Photography
2008
Director of Photography
1993
Director of Photography
2001
Director of Photography
1989
Director of Photography
2004
Second Unit Director of Photography
2011
Director of Photography
1988
Director of Photography
1995
Director of Photography
2005
Director of Photography
1997
Director of Photography
2009
Director of Photography
2006
Director of Photography
1986
Director of Photography
2002
Director of Photography
2000
Director of Photography
2007
Director of Photography
1999
Director of Photography
1985
Director of Photography
1999
Camera Operator
1981
Director of Photography
2003
Director of Photography
2011
Director of Photography
2009
Director of Photography
2004
Director of Photography
2003
Director of Photography
1991
Director of Photography
1980
Second Unit Director of Photography
1987
Camera Operator
1978
Director of Photography
2015
Director of Photography
1984
Director of Photography
2000
Director of Photography
2006
Director of Photography
1997
Camera Operator
1982
Director of Photography
1982
