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STEPHEN BURUM ASC |
Born: 25 November 1939, Visalia, Calif., USA, as Stephen Henry Burum. Was raised in Dinuba, a rural town in central California.
Education: Reedly College, Calif.; University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA; Theatre Arts Department; BA & MFA; graduated in 1963]. His teachers were Henry Koster, Charles Clarke, Dorothy Arzner, Stanley Kramer, a.o.
Career: 'Burum is a third generation Californian who was raised in the rural community of Dinuba near Fresno. One of his grandfathers was the postmaster of Dinuba and the other one owned and edited the local newspaper. Burum took the first step on his career path during his early teens when he purchased a Kodak Brownie 8mm camera with the money he earned by watering lawns and doing other summer chores. After seeing a picture in Life Magazine of a soundstage at the UCLA School of Theater Arts [now the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television], and reading the accompanying article about the school, Burum enrolled. Burum earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at UCLA, where he also shot 72 b&w films for other students who wanted to be directors. After graduation, Burum spent about six months with the nature film unit at Disney Studio [ph 16mm footage for the series 'My Family Is a Menagerie']. He was drafted by the Army in 1965. After completing basic training, Burum was assigned to the Army Pictorial Center in New York. He was a cinematographer on numerous training films, including the chief of staff film report to Congress. After completing his military obligation, Burum returned to California, determined to break into the film industry as a cinematographer. For a while, he assisted other cinematographers who were shooting commercials and non-union, low-budget 'biker' films. Ron Dexter, whom Burum met at UCLA, hooked him up with a producer who needed a cinematographer to travel to Sweden to shoot an Ann-Margret television special [1969]. That led to opportunities to shoot film for other TV specials. By the early 1970s, Burum was also shooting non-union ultra-low budget slasher and horror films, such as 'Scream Bloody Murder'. Another chance encounter led to opportunities for Burum to work as a lighting director for live and videotaped late-night television programs. That got him into the union in the special category of director of photography 'E'. He lit Johnny Mann's musical variety show 'Stand Up and Cheer', Dinah Shore and Andy Williams specials, and the Sid and Marty Krofft Saturday-morning kid show 'The Lost Saucer'. In 1976, his former UCLA classmate Francis Ford Coppola brought him to the Philippines as second unit director and cameraman on 'Apocalypse Now'. Burum did more second unit work on 'The Black Stallion' with cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. When Deschanel directed 'The Escape Artist' the following year, he gave Burum his first opportunity to earn a cinematography credit on a mainstream film.' [From the ASC website.]
Member of the ASC since June 1974. Edited the 9th edition of the 'American Cinematographer Manual' [2004]. Re-visited his roots when he was the Kodak Cinematographer in Residence at UCLA in 2007.
Appeared in the doc's 'Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography' [1991] & 'Cinematographer Style' [2005, Jon Fauer; ph: J. Fauer, Jeff Laszlo, Brian Heller & David Morgan].
Awards: 'Emmy' Award [1981; shared] for 'Cosmos' [ep 'The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean']; ASC Film Award nom [1988] for 'The Untouchables'; ASC Film Award nom [1990] for 'The War of the Roses'; ASC Film Award [1992] & 'Oscar' AA nom [1993] for 'Hoffa'; ASC Lifetime Achievement Award [2007].
FILMS |
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1969 |
Wild Gypsies [Marc B. Ray] c |
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1971 |
Scream Bloody Murder/The Captive Female/Claw of Terror [Marc B. Ray] c |
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1973 |
The House That Cried Murder/The Bride/No Way Out [Jean-Marie Pélissié] c; cph: Geoffrey Stephenson |
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1976 |
Apocalypse Now [Francis Ford Coppola] tvi/c; 153m; 2uc (+ 2ud); ph: Vittorio Storaro; see 2001 |
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1977 |
The Black Stallion [Carroll Ballard] c; 2uc (+ 2ud); ph: Caleb Deschanel |
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1979 |
The Bee Gees Concert Film [Lou Horwitz] ? |
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1979 |
Pacific High [Michael Ahnemann] 16mm-35bu/c; doc/83m |
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1980 |
The Escape Artist [Caleb Deschanel] c |
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1980 |
Death Valley [Dick Richards] c |
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1981 |
The Entity [Sidney Furie] p/c |
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1981 |
Something Wicked This Way Comes [Jack Clayton] c; addph: Jan Kiesser |
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1982 |
The Outsiders [Francis Coppola] p/c; vfx unit ph: Dave Stewart |
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1982 |
Rumble Fish [Francis Coppola] b&w; efx ph: Robert Primes |
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1983 |
Uncommon Valor [Ted Kotcheff] c; addph: Ric Waite; 2uc: Frank Holgate |
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1984 |
Body Double [Brian De Palma] c; addph: Daniel Pearl; process ph: Bill Hansard |
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1984 |
St. Elmo's Fire [Joel Schumacher] p/c; ph Washington D.C.: Jim Hovey |
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1984 |
The Bride [Franc Roddam] c |
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1985 |
8 Million Ways to Die [Hal Ashby] c |
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1986 |
Nutcracker – The Motion Picture [Carroll Ballard] c; addph: Hiro Narita |
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1986 |
The Untouchables [Brian De Palma] p/c |
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1987 |
Arthur 2: On the Rocks [Bud Yorkin] c |
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1988 |
Casualties of War [Brian De Palma] p/c |
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1989 |
The War of the Roses [Danny De Vito] c; 2uc: Robert Dalva & Larry McConkey |
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1989 |
I Love You to Death [Lawrence Kasdan] c; addph; ph: Owen Roizman |
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1990 |
He Said, She Said [Ken Kwapis & Marisa Silver] p/c |
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1991 |
Man Trouble [Bob Rafelson] c |
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1991 |
Raising Cain [Brian De Palma] c |
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1992 |
Hoffa [Danny De Vito] p/c |
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1993 |
Carlito's Way [Brian De Palma] p/c |
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1993 |
The Shadow [Russell Mulcahy] c |
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1995 |
Mission: Impossible [Brian De Palma] p/c; 2uc: Ernest Day; aph: Michael Kelem |
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1996 |
Fathers' Day [Ivan Reitman] p/c; 2uc: Kristin Glover |
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1997 |
Snake Eyes [Brian De Palma] p/c; 2uc: Alex Funke |
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1998 |
Mystery Men [Kinka Usher] c |
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1999 |
Mission to Mars [Brian De Palma] p/c; Jordan 2uc: Steven B. Poster; Vancouver 2uc: Michael Lonzo |
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2001 |
Life or Something Like It [Stephen Herek] p/c |
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2001 |
Apocalypse Now Redux [Francis Ford Coppola] re-edited & restored version/203m; see 1976 |
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2003 |
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen [Sara Sugarman] c; 2uc New York: Larry McConkey |
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TELEVISION |
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Ph 10+ musical specials with Dinah Shore, Andy Williams, a.o. |
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1968 |
Once Upon a Wheel [David Winters] car racing special/b&w-c/60m/16mm for ABC-tv; released (+ 30m add footage & 35bu) in theatres overseas (1972) |
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1969 |
Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love [David Winters] mus special for NBC-tv |
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With dir David Winters [left] - "Raquel!" |
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1970 |
Raquel! [David Winters] variety special/48m/16mm |
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1971 |
[Johnny Mann's] Stand Up and Cheer [?] mus variety series, 1971-73 |
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1972 |
The Special London Bridge Special [David Winters] mus special/60m |
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1973 |
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters [?] series, 1973-75 |
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1973 |
The Midnight Special [?] rock mus series for NBC-tv, 1973-81 |
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1973 |
Ozzie's Girls [David & Ozzie Nelson] series; sequel to 'Ozzie and Harriet'-series |
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1974 |
Little House on the Prairie [various] 203-part series, 1974-83 |
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1974 |
Land of the Lost [various] 43-part series, 1974-76 |
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1975 |
The Lost Saucer [Jack Regas, Dick Darley, a.o.] 16-part series, 1975-76 |
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1977 |
Father Knows Best Reunion [Marc Daniels] tvm; based on the series, 1954-60 |
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1977 |
Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas/Father Knows Best Christmas Reunion [Norman Abbott] tvm; based on the series, 1954-60 |
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1978 |
Mork & Mindy [various] 95-part series, 1978-82 |
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1978 |
Cosmos [co-magicam ph ep 'The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean' dir by Adrian Malone] 14–part doc PBS-tv series |
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1979 |
The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story [Richard Sarafian] 2-part tvm |
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1979 |
The T.V. Show [Tom Trbovich] comedy/60m for ABC-tv |
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1992 |
Big Al [Jerry Levine] tvm/24m |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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1969 |
Scream Free!/Street Drugs/Free Grass [Bill Brame] c.asst; ph: Austin McKinney |