KARL WALTER LINDENLAUB BVK/ASC

Born: 19 June 1957, Bremen, Germany. Raised in Hamburg.

Education: Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Munich [HFFM]; National Film and Television School, London.

Career: Became c.asst. Went to the USA in 1990.

Ph commercials dir by Edward Berger [for Veltins Pilsner], Sebastian von Nathusius [for ZDF-tv], a.o.

Member of the ASC since 1998.

Appeared in the doc 'Cinematographer Style' [2005, Jon Fauer; ph: J. Fauer, Jeff Laszlo, Brian Heller & David Morgan].

Awards: DKP Förderpreis Spielfilm [1990] for 'Moon 44'.

FILMS

1979	Vier Wände aus Zeit - Café Nymphenburg [Karl Walter Lindenlaub, Jörg Schifferer & Michael Wulfes] 16mm/?; doc/45m; cph: J. Schifferer & M. Wulfes; + co-scrpl; prod HFFM
1980	Altosax [Thomas Merker & Karl Walter Lindenlaub] b&w; short/53m; + co-scrpl; prod HFFM
1980	Der fremde Donner [Pascal Hoffmann] c; short/23m; prod HFFM
1981	Alleingang [Egon Werdin] 16mm/c; short/50m; prod HFFM
1982	Talente [Ute Wieland] c; short/37m; prod HFFM
1983	Das Land-Ei [Michael Gutmann] 16mm/c; short/33m; prod HFFM
1985	Lebe kreuz und sterbe quer [Douglas Wolfsperger] b&w
1986	Otello I, 3 [Jan Schmidt-Garre] ?; mus short/15m; prod HFFM
1986	Todesvisionen - Geisterstunde/Strange Encounters [Dirk Eickhoff ('Bis daß der Tod uns scheidet'), Pascal Hoffmann ('Kristalltod/Crystal Death'), Volker Morlock ('Malum') & Susanne Aernecke ('Julia')] 16mm/c; cph: Peter Gaube, Jo Heim, Cornelius Glatzl, Justus Pankau & Carsten Lippstock; comp of 4 shorts; prod HFFM
1986	Hollywood-Monster/Ghost Chase [Roland Emmerich] scope/ c; 2uc: Thomas Merker; sfx ph: Herbert Umbrecht
1986	Der Flieger/The Flyer [Erwin Keusch] 16mm-35bu/c; 2uc; ph: Jürgen Jürges
1987	Im Jahr der Schildkröte/Year of the Turtle [Ute Wieland] c
1988	Tele-Vision [Berno Kürten] c; short/15m
1988	Moon 44/Intruder [Roland Emmerich] p/c; 2uc: Pascal Hoffmann & Marcus Dürr (add); vfx ph: Pascal Hoffmann & Thomas Weber (add)
1989	The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter/Die unendliche Geschichte 2 [George Miller] p/c; 2uc; ph: Dave Connell
1990	Der schönste Busen der Welt/The Most Beautiful Breasts in the World [Rainer Kaufmann] c; short/15m; co-prod HFFM
1990	Celibidache [- You Don't Do Anything, You Just Let It Evolve] [Jan Schmidt-Garre] 16mm/c; mus doc/100m; cph: Diethard Prengel; prod 1988-1992
1990	Eye of the Storm [Yuri Zeltser] c; filmed 1990-91
1991	Das tätowierte Herz [Ernst Josef Lauscher] c
1991	Universal Soldier [Roland Emmerich] p/c; 2uc: Dan Turrett
1992	CB4 [: The Movie] [Tamra Davis] c; addph: James L. Carter
1993	Polski Crash [Kaspar Heidelbach] c
1993	Stargate [Roland Emmerich] p/c; + cph model unit; addph: Andrew Parke
1994	Last of the Dogmen [Tab Murphy] p/c; addph: Steven Finestone
1994	Rob Roy [Michael Caton-Jones] J-D-C Scope/c; 2uc: Jim Devis
1995	Up Close & Personal [Jon Avnet] c; 2uc: Lloyd Ahern; replaced Michael Ballhaus during pre-production
1995	Independence Day [Roland Emmerich] s35/c; 2uc: Jonathan Taylor; addph: Ueli Steiger
1996	The Jackal [Michael Caton-Jones] p/c; aph: Larry Blanford
1996	Quiet Days in Hollywood/The Way We Are/Hollywood Boulevard [Josef Rusnak] c; 2uc; ph: Dietrich Lohmann
1997	Red Corner [Jon Avnet] c
1998	Isn't She Great [Andrew Bergman] c; 2uc: Geoffrey Erb & Louis de Ernsted; + co-2uc
1998	The Haunting/The Legend of Hill House [Jan de Bont] p/c; replaced doph Caleb Deschanel one week into filming
1999	One Night at McCool's [Harald Zwart] c
2000	The Princess Diaries/The Princess of Tribeca [Garry Marshall] c; 2uc: Ian Fox
2000	City by the Sea [Michael Caton-Jones] s35/c; addph: Declan Quinn; 2uc: Gerard Sava & Michael Slovis
2001	The Banger Sisters [Bob Dolman] p/c
2002	Maid in Manhattan/Uptown Girl [Wayne Wang] p/c; 2uc: Anthony Jannelli
2003	Because of Winn-Dixie [Wayne Wang] c; 2uc: Dino Parks
2004	Guess Who [Kevin Rodney Sullivan] c; 2uc: Dino Parks

With dir Paul Verhoeven [r] - "Zwartboek"

2005	Zwartboek/Black Book [Paul Verhoeven] s35/c; 2uc: Marc Felperlaan, Erwin Roodhart, Vincent Geijsel & Philippe Van Volsem; replaced scheduled ph Theo van de Sande
2006	Georgia Rule [Garry Marshall] s35/c; 2uc: Christian Sebaldt; uncred addph: Michael Barrett
2007	The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Andrew Adamson] s35 (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Milan Chadima; aph (Poland): Adam Dale
*2007*	The Un-Dead [Ernest R. Dickerson] announced in May; project is now inactive
2008	Ninja Assassin [James McTeigue] s35/b&w-c; 2uc: Harvey Harrison & Sönke Hansen (element unit); element unit ph: Franz Lustig; splinter unit ph: Sebastian Meuschel
2009	Kill the Irishman/Bulletproof Gangster [Jonathan Hensleigh] HD (Sony F23)-to-35mm/c
2010	Dolphin Tale [Charles Martin Smith] RED-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema [also 3-D version])/c; uwph: Peter Zuccarini
*2010*	Buddha [Ashutosh Gowariker] pre-production; put on hold in November; the dir left the project in December
2011	Seven Psychopaths [Martin McDonagh] s35/c; addph; ph: Ben Davis; filmed 2011-12
2012	The Identical [Dustin Marcellino] c

TELEVISION

1983	Tango im Bauch [Ute Wieland] tvm; co-prod HFFM
1987	Der Fuchs/The Fox [various] 12-part series/s16; other ph: Rainer Klausmann & James Jacobs
1991	Celibidache Rehearses Bruckner [Jan Schmidt-Garre] mus doc/60m/16mm
1991	Leo & Charlotte [Kaspar Heidelbach] 2-part tvm
1992	Casualties of Love: The 'Long Island Lolita' Story [John Herzfeld] tvm
1993	Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman [Christopher Guest] tvm; co-addph; ph: Russell Carpenter
2012	Call Me Crazy: A Five Film/Five More [seg 'Maggie' dir by Ashley Judd] tvm; 5 seg; other ph: Dermott Downs (seg 'Eddie' dir by Bonnie Hunt), Andre Lascaris (seg 'Lucy' dir by Bryce Dallas Howard) & Gale Tattersall (seg 'Grace' dir by Laura Dern & 'Allison' dir by Sharon Maguire)

MISCELLANEOUS

1979	Vier Wände aus Zeit - Café Nymphenburg [co-d: Jörg Schifferer & Michael Wulfes; + co-scrpl/cph] prod HFFM; see Films
1980	Heimatkunde [seg 'Der letzte Kongress' dir by Michael Kötz; doc/142m/16mm] c.asst; ph: Wilfried Zeckai & Marian Czura
1980	Stachel im Fleisch [Heidi Genée] sound asst; ph: Jaroslav Kucera
198?	Anton - Ein seltsamer Greis [dir; + scrpl; short/b&w/16mm/?m] ph: ?; prod HFFM
1981	Kurze Rückkehr - Mutz [dir; + scrpl; short/b&w/41m] ph: Kay Gauditz & Michael Blagona; prod HFFM
1985	Unser Mann im Dschungel/Amazonas Mission [Peter Stripp & Rudolf Steiner] c.asst; ph: Helge Weindler