BERND HEINL

Born: 11 December 1947, Munich, [West-]Germany.

Career: Moved to the USA in 1986.

Ph commercials dir by Hans Jonkers, Rogier van der Ploeg [for Philips Senseo, Toys r Us, a.o.], Jeroen Mol, a.o. Ph music videos, e.g. 'Cartoon' [1988; d: Tamra Davis; a: Soul Asylum].

Is president of Lamny Films, Inc. since January 1986. Formed, with Susan Moses, Misha Segal, [B. Heinl] and Lance Kawas, Moseheka Entertainment.

FILMS

1979	Land Baden Württemberg - Vier unglaubliche Nachrichten [Bernhard Häusle] c; promotional doc/?m; cph: B. Häusle
1979	Panische Zeiten/Panic Time [Udo Lindenberg & Peter Fratzscher] c
1981	Der Fan/Trance/Blood Groupie [Eckhart Schmidt] c
1982	Das Gold der Liebe/Der Fan II [Eckhart Schmidt] c
1982	Manuel/Jäger des Herzens [Peter Obrist] c
1983	Flucht nach vorn [Heidi Genée] c
1983	A Question of Choice [Nicholas Renton] 16mm/c
1984	André schafft sie alle [Peter Fratzscher] c
1987	Out of Rosenheim/Bagdad Café [Percy Adlon] c
1988	Midnight Cabaret [Pece Dingo] c/V
1988	Rosalie Goes Shopping [Percy Adlon] c
1989	My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys [Stuart Rosenberg] c
1990	Disturbed [Charles Winkler] c
1990	Claude/Trusting Beatrice [Cindy Lou Johnson] c
1990	Suburban Commando [Burt Kennedy] c; addph: Richard Clabaugh, Ken Lamkin & Charlie Lieberman
1991	The Nutt House/The Nutty Nut [Adam Rifkin] c
1992	Top of the World [Cort Tramontin] c
1992	Bodies, Rest & Motion [Michael Steinberg] c; 2uc: Karen Grossman
1992	Younger and Younger [Percy Adlon] c
1993	Bleeding Hearts/Fatal Destiny/White Man's Burden [Gregory Hines] c
1993	Private Lessons: Another Story/X-tra Private Lessons [Dominique Othenin-Girard] c
1994	The Fear/Morty [Vincent Robert] c
1994	Pie in the Sky/Mr. Traffic [Bryan Gordon] c
1995	It's My Party [Randal Kleiser] c; 2uc: Scott Dittrich
1995	Albino Alligator [Kevin Spacey] p/c; addph; ph: Mark Plummer
1995	The Last of the High Kings/Summer Fling [David Keating] c
1996	The Tears of Julian Po/Julian Po [Alan Wade] c
1997	Johnny Skidmarks/The Killer Inside [John Raffo] c; 2uc: Jonathan Rho
1997	Jerry and Tom [Saul Rubinek] c; ph Chicago; ph: Paul Sarossy
1997	Wicked/The Second Wife [Michael Steinberg] c; 2uc: Jonathan Rho & Jeffrey Weaver
1998	The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave/Be the Man [Peter MacDonald] c/V
1998	Kimberly/Daddy Who? [Frederic Golchan] c
1999	The Little Vampire/Der kleine Vampir [Ulrich Edel] c; addph: William Wages; 2uc: Jan Pester
2001	Milwaukee, Minnesota [Allan Mindel] c
2001	Perfect Opposites/A Piece of My Heart [Matt Cooper] c
2002	Jesus, Mary and Joey/Welcome Back Miss Mary [James Quattrochi] c; 2uc: Eric Fletcher; aph: Brian Heller
2004	Neighborhood Watch/Deadly End [Graeme Whifler] c
2005	The Dead One/El muerto [Brian Cox] c; co-2uc; ph: Steve Yedlin
2005	Possibility [John Coppola] HD/c; short/9m06s; for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
2005	Rescue Dawn [Werner Herzog] s35-to35mm/c; ph Alameda crew; ph: Peter Zeitlinger
2005	Big Top Winkle [Lara Jo Regan] c; short/37m
2006	Crashing Cannes [Gil Pinon (= Gilbert Nash] in development since 2005; scheduled for April 2007 start; then March 2009; status unknown
2006	[Faizon Love's] Tao of the Golden Mask [Faizon Love (= Langston Faizon Santisima)] c; mockumentary/51m; + interview (posing as ph of the original film); film scenes from 'Insee thong/Golden Eagle' (1970, Mitr Chaibancha)

[Left] with dir Danny Wilson & prod Susan Moses - "Nephilim"

2008	Nephilim [Danny Wilson] + co-exec prod; was scheduled to start filming in September, later March 2009; in August 2012 in prod as a 3-D animation project
2009	Life is Hot in Cracktown [Buddy Giovinazzo] c; 2uc; ph: Kathryn Westergaard
*2011*	Perfect Blonde [Lance Kawas] announced
*2011*	Jewel and the Assassin [Lance Kawas] announced
*2011*	Recycled Teabags [Raymond Devere-Austin] + exec prod; announced
*2011*	The Violinist [Lance Kawas] announced
*2011*	Soulmates [James Fargo] announced
2011	The Last Passage [Fernando Palacio] s16/c; scheduled to start shooting in November, later Summer 2012; a 'concept video [stills]' (3m53s) has been made

TELEVISION

1979	Ein bißchen was Schönes [Tomy Wigand] tvm
1980	Asphaltnacht [Peter Fratzscher] tvm
1981	Inflation im Paradies [Nikolai Müllerschön, Susanne Blänkner, Richard L. Wagner & Wolfgang Rühl] tvm/b&w-c; 4 seg
1981	Die Zeit dazwischen [Klaus Weise] tvm
1983	Kerbels Flucht [Erwin Keusch] tvm
1983	Wochenendgeschichten [ep #2 'Gerichtliches Nachspiel' dir by Erwin Keusch] 6-part series, 1985
1985	Tamboo - Lio und der Todesgötze der Makunduchi [Rainer Grupe] tvm
1986	Auf Achse [ep #29 'Thai-Teak' dir by Werner Masten (WM), #30 'Grenzfälle' dir by WM, #31 'Prosit Neujahr' dir by WM & #32 'Franz im Glück' dir by WM] 86-part series, 1977 & 1986-96; 2nd season, 1986-87
1986	Reginald LeBorg - Man nannte mich den Alleskönner [Hans-Jörg Weyhmüller] c; doc/43m; cph: John Hazard
1986	Blood Vows – The Story of a Mafia Wife/The Godfather's Wife [Paul Wendkos] tvm
1987	Right to Die [Paul Wendkos] tvm
1987	Driving Academy/Crash Course [Oz Scott] tvm
1987	Tales from the Hollywood Hills [ep 'The Old Reliable' dir by Michael Blakemore] 4-part series; other ph: Newton Thomas Sigel; for PBS-tv
1988	The Town Bully/A Friendly, Quiet Little Town [Noel Black] tvm
1988	The Big Five/The End of Something [Lasse Hallstrom] pilot/30m; for NBC-tv
1988	From the Dead of Night/The Walkers [Paul Wendkos] 2-part tvm; 2uc: John Black
1989	The Edge [ep #3 'Professional Man' dir by Nicholas Kazan] 3-part series; other ph: Thomas Burstyn; for HBO-tv
1990	Murder C.O.D./Cash for Killing [Alan Metzger] tvm
1991	Red Wind [Alan Metzger] tvm
2003	30 Days Until I'm Famous [Gabriela Tagliavini] tvm

FILMS AS CAMERA ASSISTANT

1975	Berlinger [- Ein deutsches Abenteuer]/The Outsider [Bernhard Sinkel & Alf Brustellin] ph: Dietrich Lohmann
1976	Der Mädchenkrieg [Alf Brustellin & Bernhard Sinkel] ph: Dietrich Lohmann
1976	Das Schlangenei/The Serpent's Egg [Ingmar Bergman] co-c.asst; ph: Sven Nykvist