Born: 12 March 1946, Alhambra, Los Angeles County, Calif., USA, as Dean Raymond Cundey.

Education: California State University, Los Angeles [Prod Design; 2 years]; School of Theater, Film and Television of the University of California, Los Angeles [UCLA] [1968-70].

Career: Got his start handling makeup for 2 Roger Corman productions: 'Naked Angels' [1969, d: Bruce Clark, ph: Robert Eberlein] and 'Gas-s-s-s!/Gas!' [1970, d: Roger Corman, ph: Ron Dexter; + c.op 3rd cam]. After that he scrambled for several years doing pickup shots/inserts and assisting film editors. Became gaffer. In order to increase his marketability as a cinematographer, he outfitted a location truck with camera and grip equipment - then included himself - in what was a complete filmmaking package. 'It became my foot-in-the-door on a lot of low-budget films. I was able to provide a complete package of equipment and also myself to a producer. Having my own equipment meant that I could do a better job. So it was a win-win situation.' He shot some 20-25 films for people who rented his van.

Ph commercials [dir by Sam Raimi, Bruce Logan, David Hogan, John Glenn, Kevin Dole, a.o.] and music videos. Directed commercials. Honorary member of the SOC.

Appearances/Interviews: 'Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography' [1991], 'The Making of "Jurassic Park"' [1995, John Schultz; ph: Shawn Maurer], 'The Thing: Terror Takes Shape' [1998, Michael Matessino; 83m], "'Halloween' Unmasked 2000" [1999, Mark Cerulli], 'Tales from the Mist: Inside the Fog' [2001, prod: Jeffrey Schwarz; 28m], 'Return to 'Escape from New York'' [2003, Michael Gillis], 'Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest' [2003, Steven Smith], 'Halloween: 25 Years of Terror' [2003-04, Stefan Hutchinson; ph: Guy Paterson], 'Looking Back at the Future' [2005, Darold Crotzer] & 'Cinematographer Style' [2005, Jon Fauer; ph: J. Fauer, Jeff Laszlo, Brian Heller & David Morgan].

Awards: BSC Award nom [1988], 'Oscar' AA nom [1988] & BAFTA Film Award nom [1988] for 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'; ASC Award nom [1992] for 'Hook'; BSC Award nom [1995], BAFTA Film Award nom [1995] & ASC Award nom [1996] for 'Apollo 13'; Daytime 'Emmy' Award [2001] for 'The Face: Jesus in Art'.

About the 'Raptors in the kitchen' scene from 'Jurassic Park' [1992]: 'It's the sequence I think that blended the technical with the suspense and ended up being one of the overall successful uses of everything we had tried to do. When we got to that sequence it was later in the schedule and we'd had a chance to see exactly what was going to happen with the computer-generated dinosaurs. We had a lot of confidence in our ability to rely on what the computer was going to do for us. So we wholeheartedly went into that sequence and the blend that was going to be necessary. One of the concerns at first with the computer and the physical effects being put together was how well could 'Industrial Light & Magic' duplicate the look that we were going to get out of photographing the rubber animatronic dinosaurs.

Stan Winston had built about three or four Raptors, with different types of uses for them. There are particular shots in the film, usually the full figure shots of the Raptor which involved the guy in a full suit. Stan also built a very complicated unit which consisted of the raptor from the haunches up and that involved a very elaborate cable system which went back to ten or twelve puppeteers who gave the motion to the Raptor's head, face and neck. There were about twenty-five individual movements made by pulling the cables. To get an animatronic puppet to walk - because it involves so many individual operators who have to coordinate their movements - is almost impossible, so the computer ended up being our savior in that case and have become extremely important for that reason because you can then create a creature that walks. In this sequence, what appears to be two Raptors stalking the kids is made up of many individual pieces chosen for what each individual puppet or technique could give us. There is a perception that all of the dinosaurs in the film are computer generated when in fact, probably two thirds of the work is puppetry - the other third is the computer.

For overall lighting of the kitchen we selected a motif of a very warm, late afternoon sunlight coming through very small windows. Another difficulty was that the kitchen was entirely stainless steel which reflected literally everything in the room. Every time we put up a light it would flare all over the walls, the counters, so it took a great deal of time and effort to hide the camera and the lights. Reflections for the computer-generated dinosaurs had to be computer-generated also. For that the computer was given information about certain points in the room then it's able to interpolate the move.' [From article by Lindsay Amos in 'Cinema Papers' magazine, Australia, February 1997.]

1972        Beware! The Blob/Son of Blob/Son of the Blob [Larry Hagman] c; ph animal seq (+ mechanical efx); ph: Al Hamm

1972        So Evil, My Sister/Psycho Sisters/The Sibling [Reginald Le Borg] c

1972        Brother on the Run/Black Force 2/Boots Turner/Man on the Run [Edward J. Lakso & Herbert L. Strock] c

1973        The No Mercy Man/Trained to Kill/Fire in the Wind/The Vietnam Soldier [Daniel J. Vance] tao/c

1973        Where the Red Fern Grows [Norman Tokar] c; addph: John Le Blanc; 2uc: Herb Smith

1975        Citizen Soldier [Michael Elsey] c; cph: Baird Bryant; completed & released in 1982

1975        Ilse, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks [Don Edmonds] c; cph: Glenn Roland

1975        That Girl from Boston [Matt Cimber] c

1975        Black Shampoo [Greydon Clark] c; cph: Michael J. Mileham

1975        The Witch Who Came from the Sea [Matt Cimber] tao35/c; assoc ph; ph: Ken Gibb

1976        Bare Knuckles [Don Edmonds] c; addph: J.A. Silveira, Mark Walthour & Ken Gibb

1976        Creature from Black Lake/Demon of the Lake [Joy N. Houck Jr.] tao35/c

1976        Satan's Cheerleaders [Greydon Clark] c; 2uc: Ray Stella

1977        Hi-Riders [Greydon Clark] c; 2uc: Michael Mileham

1977        The Charge of the Model T's [Jim McCullough] p/c

1978        Hanging on a Star [Mike MacFarland] c

1978        The Kid from Not-So-Big [Bill Crain] c

1978        Halloween [John Carpenter] p/c

1978        Rock 'n' Roll High School/Girls' Gym [Allan Arkush, Joe Dante (uncred) & Jerry Zucker (uncred)] c; 2uc: Clyde Bryan

1979        Jaws of Satan/King Cobra [Bob Claver] c; 2uc: Raymond Stella

1979        The Fog [John Carpenter] p/c

1979        Roller Boogie [Mark L. Lester] c; roller skating ph: Daniel Pearl

1979        Angels' Brigade/Seven from Heaven/Angels Revenge [Greydon Clark] c

1979        Separate Ways [Howard Avedis] c

1980        Galaxina [William Sachs] c

1980        Without Warning/It Came Without Warning/Alien Warning [Greydon Clark] c

1980        Escape from New York [John Carpenter] p/c; 2uc: Jim Lucas; spec vfx ph: Jim Cameron, George Dodge, Dennis Skotak

                    & Austin McKinney

1981        Halloween II [: The Nightmare Isn't Over!] [Rick Rosenthal] p/c

1981        The Thing [John Carpenter] p/c

1982        Halloween III: Season of the Witch [Tommy Lee Wallace] p/c

1982        Psycho II [Richard Franklin] c; matte ph: Bill Taylor & Dennis Glouner; spec vfx: Albert Whitlock

1983        D.C. Cab/Street Fleet [Joel Schumacher] c; Washington ph: Ron Van Nostrand; 2uc: Rex Metz

1983        Romancing the Stone [Robert Zemeckis] p/c; 2uc: Richard Hart

1984        Warning Sign [Hal Barwood] c

1984        Back to the Future [Robert Zemeckis] c; 2uc: Raymond Stella

1985        Big Trouble in Little China [John Carpenter] p/c; 2uc: Steven Poster; uwph: Jack Cooperman & Barry Herron; vfx ph:

                    Bill Neil

1986        Project X [Jonathan Kaplan] c

1986        Who Framed Roger Rabbit [Robert Zemeckis] c; addph UK: Paul Beeson; 2uc UK: Wally Byatt; spec vfx ph: Scott

                    Farrar; ph cons UK: Derek Browne

1987        Big Business [Jim Abrahams] c; addph: Gary Kibbe; 2uc New York: Tom Priestley Jr.

1988        Road House [Rowdy Herrington] p/c

1989        Back to the Future Part II [Robert Zemeckis] c; 2uc: Don Burgess; addph: Jack Priestley

1989        Back to the Future Part III [Robert Zemeckis] c; 2uc: Don Burgess; + small part

1990        Nothing But Trouble [Dan Aykroyd] c; 2uc: Robert Stevens & Don Burgess

1991        Hook [Steven Spielberg] p/c

1991        Death Becomes Her [Robert Zemeckis] c; 2uc: Don Burgess; uwph: Jack Cooperman

1992        Jurassic Park [Steven Spielberg] c; addph: Lloyd Ahern II; + small part

1993        The Flintstones [Brian Levant] c; + small part

1994        Casper [Brad Silberling] c; addph: Kenneth Zunder; 2uc: Raymond Stella

1994        Apollo 13 [Ron Howard] s35/c; addph: Robert Legato; weightless unit ph: David Nowell; vfx ph: Erik Nash; also IMAX

                    (15/70) version: 'Apollo 13 - The IMAX Experience'

1995        Honey, I Shrunk the Audience [Randal Kleiser] 3-D/70mm/c; short/23m; for Disney World

1995        Michael & Mickey [Jerry Rees (replaced Robert Zemeckis)] short/live action & anim; for Disney-MGM Studios

                    at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida

1996        Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair [Steven Spielberg, Alexandra Collett, Greg Hammond, Eric Eckstein & Patrick

                    Algermissen] vg/CD-ROM; + appearance

1996        Leave It to Beaver [Andy Cadiff] c; co-addph; ph: Thomas del Ruth

1996        Flubber [Les Mayfield] c; 2uc: Raymond Stella & Rexford Metz

1997        Krippendorf's Tribe [Todd Holland] c

1997        The Parent Trap [Nancy Meyers] c; 2uc: Raymond Stella; replaced doph Geoffrey Simpson

1999        Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming [Richard Hatch & Jay Woelfel] c; cph: Scott Spears

1999        Goodtime Charlie [Kostas Iannios] announced; scheduled for June 2001 start; status unknown

2000        What Women Want [Nancy Meyers] c; 2uc: Raymond Stella

2002        Looney Tunes: Back in Action [Joe Dante] s35/c; addph: Steven Poster; 2uc: Patrick Loungway & Mark Vargo

2003        Garfield [- The Movie] [Peter Hewitt] c; 2uc: Mark Vargo

2004        Sakura: Blue-Eyed Samurai [Dean Paraskevopoulos] c

2005        Jurassic IV [: The Extinction] [Alex Proyas or Steven Spielberg or Joe Johnston] pre-production; scheduled for 2007

                    start; announced as doph, but now replaced by Shelly Johnson

2005        Whisper/Hellion [Stewart Hendler (replaced Erik Van Looy)] c; 2uc: Danny Nowak & Randal Platt

2005        Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties [Tim Hill] c; 2uc (+ 2ud); ph: Peter Lyons Collister

2006        The Holiday [Nancy Meyers] c; 2uc UK: Chris Seager & Sue Gibson; aph: Jeremy Braben

2008        Shannon's Rainbow [Frank E. Johnson] c

2008        The Spy Next Door [Brian Levant] c

2009        Truth & Treason [Matt Whitaker] c

1982        The Invisible Woman [Alan Levi] pilot/v

1982        M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Driving [William Graham] tvm

1983        Tales of the Unexpected [ep #83 'The Turn of the Tide' dir by Ray Danton] 112-part series, 1979-1988; 6th season,

                    1983

1983        Amazons [Paul Michael Glaser] tvm

1984        Invitation to Hell [Wes Craven] tvm

1984        It Came Upon the Midnight Clear [Peter H. Hunt] tvm

1989        [HBO's] Tales from the Crypt [ep #2 'And All Through the House' dir by Robert Zemeckis] 93-part series, 1989-96; 1st

                    season, 1989

1999        Partners [Brett Ratner] pilot for unsold series

2000        The Face: Jesus in Art [Craig McGowan] doc/120m; ep #432 PBS-tv series 'Religion & Ethics Newsweekly'; also

                    theatrical version (90m)

2002        Too Many Lovers [Arvin Brown] tvm

2004        The West Wing [ep #121 'Opposition Research' dir by Christopher Misiano (CM) & #125 'Freedonia' dir by CM] 154-part

                    series, 1999-2006; 6th season, 2004-05; other ph: Thomas Del Ruth, Michael Mayers (+ cph #121 & #125), Philip

                    Holahan & Anette Haellmigk

2007        The Troop [Greg Coolidge] pilot (30m) for Nickelodeon

2007        Camp Rock [Matthew Diamond] tvm

1974        Fugitive Lovers/The Runaways/Starcrossed Lovers [John Carr] c.asst; ph: Michael Mileham

1996        Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves [feature/V] ph: Raymond Stella

1996        Deep Rising [2ud; dir: Stephen Sommers] 2uc: Henry M. Lebo

2006        DarkHorse [feature] scheduled for November start; status unknown

2007        Nightlife [feature] scheduled for late 2007 start; status unknown