Born: 18 November 1946, San Francisco, California, USA, as John Newton Green.

Career: Started as c.asst to aph Joe Dieves in San Francisco. Moved to Hollywood in 1968. Was c.asst working for doph Donald Morgan for 7 years; became c.op in 1975 and worked with William Fraker, Ric Waite, Harry Stradling Jr., a.o. Met actor/dir Clint Eastwood during the shooting of 'The Gauntlet'.

Became active member of the ASC in September 1992. Also active as director. His son Peter [1970-] is a c.asst/doph, his son Ryan is a c.op and his daughter Heather is a camera loader.

Appeared in the doc's 'Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven'' [1992, Richard Schickel; ph: Don Metz], 'Wiecej swiatka. Festiwal Operatorów Filmowych Camerimage '97' [1997, Piotr Lazarkiewicz; ph: Adam Sikora], '[American Masters:] Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows' [2000, Bruce Ricker; ph: Vic Losick], 'History vs. Hollywood' [2001; in 1 ep of this tv-series] & 'Cinematographer Style' [2005, Jon Fauer; ph: J. Fauer, Jeff Laszlo, Brian Heller & David Morgan].

Awards: 'Oscar' AA nom [1993] & BAFTA Film Award nom [1993] for 'Unforgiven'; ASC Award nom [1996] for 'The Bridges of Madison County'; SOC 'President's Award' [1998]; Big Bear Lake IFF Lifetime Achievement Award [2003]; ASC Lifetime Achievement Award [2009].

"Cinematography was not something Jack Green thought about during his childhood in Daley City, Calif. It was understood that he would attend barber college and work in one of the barbershops his father and uncle owned until it came time for him to take over the family business. His only connection to photography was sharing his father's photography hobby.

His interest in photography continued in high school, but Green had settled into the notion that the tools of his trade would be clippers and scissors. Shortly after he started working as a full-time barber, a former combat cameraman named Joe Dieves helped change the course of Green's life when he came in for a trim. Dieves had set up shop in the San Francisco Bay area shooting documentaries, industrials and educational films for local clients. It took Green months to talk to Dieves about camerawork, but the man was a repeat customer, and eventually, Green talked himself into a part-time job as his camera assistant. 'We'd go out on a job, and he'd make sure I was never ignorant about what was necessary,' recalls Green. 'He was a gentle teacher. Soon, I asked my father and my uncle if I could move to one of the back chairs and work part-time. Over a few years, I became a very part-time barber and an almost full-time camera assistant, and in 1965, I got into the union in Northern California, and it became a full-time job.'

Green was soon assisting for a variety of companies, including some that specialized in aerial photography. Assisting on some helicopter exteriors for the film 'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' led to the opportunity to work for John Lowry Productions, an aerial-photography company based in Los Angeles.

The early 1970s saw Green assisting a lot, predominantly on aerial units, and working fulltime for Tyler Mounts. Then, in 1972, there were huge layoffs. He managed to keep busy freelancing as an assistant, and in 1975, cinematographer Michael Watkins moved him up to operator on Jonathan Demme's 'Fighting Mad'. It was a baptism by fire in the craft of operating incredibly quickly under chaotic circumstances. Cinematographer Rexford Metz then hired Green to operate on Clint Eastwood's 'The Gauntlet'. Green subsequently operated on every Eastwood film until he moved up on 'Heartbreak Ridge'.

Green was immediately impressed with Eastwood's attitudes about and approach to filmmaking. The focus was on craft and efficiency and always using imagery to support the story. Eastwood hired the same crew as often as possible.

It was through operating on these films that Green learned about lighting. He recalls cinematographer Bruce Surtees 'standing on a set and giving instructions to the gaffer using his hand as if it were a paintbrush. You would swear there was paint coming out of his fingers! Bruce was a lighting minimalist. If he walked onto a set and saw four lights burning, he'd tell the gaffer to turn one off. I realized the fewer lights you had, the fewer complications there were. It was fascinating to see how Bruce expressed himself to his gaffer and electricians.'

When Surtees recommended Green to shoot 'Heartbreak Ridge', Green sensed it was now or never, and he accepted the job even though he still felt he had a lot to learn." [From article by Jon Silberg on the ASC website.]

1983        Uncommon Valor [Ted Kotcheff] c; co-2uc (cred as co-2nd c.asst); ph: Stephen Burum

1984        Volunteers [Nicholas Meyer] c; addph; ph: Ric Waite

1986        Heartbreak Ridge [Clint Eastwood] c

1987        Like Father, Like Son [Rod Daniel] c

1987        Rambo III [Peter MacDonald] c; hph Arizona; ph: John Stanier

1987        Bird [Clint Eastwood] c; process ph: Bruce Logan

1988        The Dead Pool [Buddy Van Horn] c

1988        Race for Glory/American Built [Rocky Lang] c

1988        Pink Cadillac [Buddy Van Horn] c

1988        The Karate Kid Part III [John G. Avildsen] c; co-aph; ph: Stephen Yaconelli

1989        White Hunter, Black Heart [Clint Eastwood] c; wildlife ph: Simon Trevor; aph: Peter Allwork

1990        The Rookie [Clint Eastwood] p/c; 2uc: Don Burgess

1990        Love Crimes [Lizzie Borden] c; addph: Ben Butin (Atlanta) & Phedon Papamichael (Dallas)

1991        Deceived [Damian Harris] c; 2uc: Peter Norman

1991        Unforgiven [Clint Eastwood] p/c

1992        Rookie of the Year [Daniel Stern] c

1993        A Perfect World [Clint Eastwood] p/c

1993        Bad Company/The Toolshed [Damian Harris] c

1994        Trapped in Paradise [George Gallo] p/c; 2uc: Harald Ortenburger

1994        The Amazing Panda Adventure [Christopher Cain] p/c; 2uc: Scott Ransom

1994        The Bridges of Madison County [Clint Eastwood] c

1995        The Net [Irwin Winkler] c; 2uc: Mark Vargo

1995        Twister [Jan de Bont] p/c; 2uc: Alexander Witt; replaced doph Don Burgess

1995        Traveller [Jack N. Green] c; uncred ph

1996        Absolute Power [Clint Eastwood] p/c

1996        Speed 2: Cruise Control [Jan de Bont] p/c; 2uc: Alexander Witt; uwph: Pete Romano; aph: Ron Goodman

1997        Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil [Clint Eastwood] c

1998        True Crime [Clint Eastwood] c

1999        Girl, Interrupted [James Mangold] c

1999        Space Cowboys [Clint Eastwood] p/b&w-c; vfx ph: Martin Rosenberg; uwph: Pete Romano

2000        Golden Dreams [Agnieszka Holland] c; dram doc/30m; for Disney's California Adventure, Anaheim

2000        [Seduced:] Pretty When You Cry/Season's Greetings [Jack N. Green] c; premiered on HBO-tv

2000        A Man Apart/El Diablo/Extreme Rage [F. Gary Gray] s35/c; 2uc: Michael A. Benson (+ 2ud); aph: Hans Bjerno

2001        Wounded/Lord of the Wolves [Lea Thompson] in development; status unknown

2002        Against the Ropes [Charles S. Dutton] s35/c

2002        Secondhand Lions [Tim McCanlies] c; addph: Bob Yeoman

2003        50 First Dates [Peter Segal] p/c; 2uc: Joseph Urbanczyk; addph: S. Douglas Smith; vfx ph: Christopher Nibley

2003        The Drummer [Geoffrey Lewis] in development; scheduled for 2004 start; status unknown

2004        Serenity [Joss Whedon] s35/c; 2uc: Raymond Stella; aph: David Nowell; sfx ph: Bill Taylor

2005        The 40 Year Old Virgin [Judd Apatow] c

2005        Zoom [: Academy for Superheroes] [Peter Hewitt] c; uncred addph; ph: David Tattersall

2005        Click [Frank Coraci] HD-to-35mm/c; New York ph; ph: Dean Semler

2006        Are We Done Yet? [Steve Carr] c; 2uc: Don McCuaig

2007        My Best Friend's Girl [Howard Deutch] c; addph: Peter N. Green

2007        Sweetwater [Martin Guigui] scheduled to start filming in January 2007, then August 2008, then (with doph Tony

                    Pierce-Roberts) in February-April 2009, and now in May 2010

2008        Law Abiding Citizen [Frank Darabont] scheduled as doph, but film was ph by Jonathan Sela and dir by F. Gary Gray in

                    January-April 2009

2009        The Letters [William Riead] scheduled for March start; J. Green shot the trailer in November 2001

2009        Hot Tub Time Machine [Steve Pink] c; aph: Hans Bjerno

2009        Diary of a Wimpy Kid [Thor Freudenthal] c

1993        The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. [pilot dir by Bryan Spicer] 27-part series, 1993-94; other ph: Richard C. Thorpe

1997        Eastwood on Eastwood [Richard Schickel] doc/b&w-c/68m

1968        Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice [Paul Mazursky] Wescam tech; ph: Charles Lang

1968        Tora! Tora! Tora! [Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku & Toshio Masuda] Wescam tech; ph: Charles F. Wheeler, a.o.

1971        Dirty Harry [Don Siegel] c.asst aph; ph: Bruce Surtees

1974        Win, Place or Steal/Three for the Money/The Big Payoff [Richard Bailey] c.asst; ph: Donald M. Morgan

1974        Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York [Sidney J. Furie] 1st c.asst; ph: Donald M. Morgan

1975        Rooster Cogburn [Stuart Millar] c.asst; ph: Harry Stradling Jr.

1975        Fighting Mad [Jonathan Demme] c.op; ph: Michael Watkins

1977        The Gauntlet [Clint Eastwood] c.op 'b' cam; ph: Rexford Metz

1977        I Wanna Hold Your Hand [Robert Zemeckis] c.op 'b' cam; ph: Donald M. Morgan

1978        Every Which Way But Loose [James Fargo] c.op; ph: Rexford Metz

1979        Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker [Ted Post; tvm] c.op; ph: Hector Figueroa

1979        The $5.20 an Hour Dream [Russ Mayberry; tvm] c.op; ph: Hector Figueroa

1979        Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris [Gerald Isenberg; tvm] c.op; ph: Hector Figueroa

1979        Bronco Billy [Clint Eastwood] c.op; ph: David Worth

1980        Any Which Way You Can [Buddy Van Horn] co-c.op; ph: David Worth

1980        The Border [Tony Richardson] c.op; ph: Ric Waite

1980        Midnight Offerings [Rod Holcomb; tvm] c.op; ph: Hector Figueroa

1980        The Greatest American Hero [various; tv-series, 1981-83] c.op (1st season, 1981 - 9 ep); ph: Hector Figueroa

1981        Tex [Tim Hunter] c.op; ph: Ric Waite

1981        Cagney & Lacey [ep #1 'You Call This Plain Clothes?/Bang, Bang, You're Dead' dir by Georg Stanford Brown; tv-series]

                    c.op; ph: Hector Figueroa

1981        Firefox [Clint Eastwood] co-c.op; ph: Bruce Surtees

1981        Hysterical [Chris Bearde] co-c.op; ph: Donald M. Morgan

1982        48 Hrs. [Walter Hill] c.op; ph: Ric Waite

1982        Risky Business [Paul Brickman] c.op; ph: Bruce Surtees & Reynaldo Villalobos

1982        Honkytonk Man [Clint Eastwood] c.op; ph: Bruce Surtees

1983        Sudden Impact [Clint Eastwood] c.op; ph: Bruce Surtees

1984        Tightrope [Richard Tuggle] c.op; ph: Bruce Surtees

1984        City Heat [Richard Benjamin] co-panaglide op; ph: Nick McLean

1984        Beverly Hills Cop [Martin Brest] c.op; ph: Bruce Surtees

1985        Pale Rider [Clint Eastwood] c.op; ph: Bruce Surtees

1985        Rocky IV [Sylvester Stallone] co-c.op Vancouver; ph: Bill Butler

1985        Psycho III [Anthony Perkins] co-c.op; ph: Bruce Surtees

1985        Pretty in Pink [Howard Deutch] c.op; ph: Tak Fujimoto

1985        Ratboy [Sondra Locke] c.op; ph: Bruce Surtees

1985        Out of Bounds [Richard Tuggle] c.op; ph: Bruce Surtees

2008        Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay!! [Evgeny Afineevsky] visual cons; ph: Peter N. Green

1995        Traveller [+ uncred ph] see Films

1997        Dead Run [feature] announced; status unknown

2000        [Seduced:] Pretty When You Cry/Season's Greetings [+ ph] see Films

2000        White Out [feature] announced; status unknown