Born: 23 July 1937, Los Angeles, Calif., USA, as Bruce Mohr Powell Surtees, son of doph Robert L. Surtees [1906-1985].

Education: Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Calif., USA.

Career: Joined Disney as a technician. He was nicknamed 'The Prince of Darkness' because of his low-key lighting. Was c.op [usually for his father].

Awards: 'Oscar' AA nom [1974] for 'Lenny'; 'Emmy' Award nom [1999] for 'Dash and Lilly'.

Don Siegel on 'The Beguiled': 'I remember one thing I wanted to do is get a shot in darkness illuminated by a single candle. The old way to get a picture of someone walking with a candle was to set up a complicated series of controlled lights, dimmers, clicking on, synchronized to the step of the person with the candle. [...] I didn't want that kind of thing again. So I picked young Bruce Surtees, and said, "You've got to do it without dimmers." If I'd said that to an old-timer, he would have said goodbye. But Bruce would try to find a way to do anything I asked him. For that candle scene, he put a little bulb in the base of the candleholder and we shot. It took guts. We realized we might get nothing, and we knew we would have to intensify it, send it through a special lab. When we saw the film, most of the screen was black except for a circle of light showing the girl's face. We didn't care that it was black, that it wouldn't show up on a television screen when the studio sold the picture to some network in a couple of years. Screw them. We liked it. It was exciting.' [From 'Don Siegel: Director' by Stuart M. Kaminsky, 1974.]

1970        The Beguiled [Don Siegel] p/c

1970        The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid [Philip Kaufman] c

1970        Play Misty for Me [Clint Eastwood] c

1971        Dirty Harry [Don Siegel] p/c

1971        Joe Kidd [John Sturges] p/c

1972        Conquest of the Planet of the Apes [J. Lee Thompson] tao/c

1972        Lost Horizon [Charles Jarrott] p/c; co-2uc; ph: Robert L. Surtees

1972        High Plains Drifter [Clint Eastwood] p/c

1972        Blume in Love [Paul Mazursky] c

1973        The Outfit/The Good Guys Always Win [John Flynn] c

1973        Night Moves [Arthur Penn] c; uwph: Jordan Klein

1974        Lenny [Bob Fosse] b&w

1975        Leadbelly [Gordon Parks] c

1975        Sparkle [Sam O'Steen] c

1975        The Outlaw Josey Wales [Clint Eastwood (replaced Philip Kaufman)] p/c

1976        The Shootist [Don Siegel] c

1976        Three Warriors [Kieth Merrill] c; 2uc: Reed Smoot

1977        Big Wednesday/Summer of Innocence [John Milius] p/c; surf ph: Greg MacGillivray; special water ph: George

                    Greenough & Dan Merkel

1977        Movie Movie [seg 'Baxter's Beauties of 1933' dir by Stanley Donen] b&w/c; seg 'Dynamite Hands' ph by Charles

                    Rosher Jr.

1978        Dreamer [Noel Nosseck] c

1978        Escape from Alcatraz [Don Siegel] c

1979        Inchon [Terence Young] c; main title seq ph: William Fraker

1980        Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains/All Washed Up [Lou Adler] c

1981        White Dog/Trained to Kill [Samuel Fuller] c

1981        Firefox [Clint Eastwood] p/c; anim ph: Harry Moreau & Angela Diamos; process ph: Bruce Logan

1982        Bad Boys [Rick Rosenthal] c; cph: Donald Thorin

1982        Risky Business [Paul Brickman] c; cph: Reynaldo Villalobos

1982        Honkytonk Man [Clint Eastwood] c

1983        Sudden Impact [Clint Eastwood] p/c

1984        Tightrope [Richard Tuggle] c; 2uc: Billy Bragg

1984        Beverly Hills Cop [Martin Brest] c

1984        Pale Rider [Clint Eastwood] p/c

1985        Psycho III [Anthony Perkins] c; uwph: Mike Dugan

1985        Ratboy [Sondra Locke] c

1985        The Best of Times [Roger Spottiswoode; football game d: Ron Shelton] p/c; cph: Charles F. Wheeler; 2uc: Robert

                    Hillman

1985        Out of Bounds [Richard Tuggle] c

1987        Back to the Beach/Malibu Beach Girls [Lyndall Hobbs] c; surfing unit ph: Yuri Farrant

1987        License to Drive [Greg Beeman] c; 2uc: Buddy Botham

1988        Men Don't Leave [Paul Brickman] c; 2uc: Rexford Metz

1989        Chains of Gold [Rod Holcomb] c; cph: Dariusz Wolski (replaced by B. Surtees); premiered on cable-tv in 1991

1990        Run [Geoff Burrowes] c; cph: Brenton Spencer; 2uc: Frank P. Flynn

1990        The Super [Rod Daniel] c

1991        That Night/One Hot Summer [Craig Bolotin] c

1992        The Crush [Alan Shapiro] c

1993        Corrina, Corrina [Jessie Nelson] c; addph: Geary McLeod

1994        The Stars Fell on Henrietta [James Keach] p/c

1995        The Substitute [Robert Mandel] c; 2uc: Michael McGowan

1997        Just a Little Harmless Sex [Rick Rosenthal] c

2001        Joshua [Jon Purdy] c; 2uc: Eugene F. Crededio

2005        The Last Time [Michael Caleo] announced as doph, but film was ph by Timothy Suhrstedt

1993        The Birds II: Land's End [Alan Smithee = Rick Rosenthal] tvm

1998        Murder in a Small Town [Joyce Chopra] tvm

1998        Dash and Lilly [Kathy Bates] tvm

1999        That Championship Season [Paul Sorvino] tvm

1999        The Lady in Question [Joyce Chopra] tvm

1999        Lethal Vows [Paul Schneider] tvm

1999        [Robert B. Parker's] Thin Air/Thin Air: A Spenser Mystery [Robert Mandel] tvm; 2uc: Arthur E. Cooper

2000        American Tragedy [Lawrence Schiller] 2-part tvm

2000        And Never Let Her Go [Peter Levin] tvm

1964        The Hallelujah Trail [John Sturges] co-c.asst; ph: Robert L. Surtees

1965        Lost Command [Mark Robson] c.op; ph: Robert L. Surtees

1969        Kelly's Heroes [Brian G. Hutton] c.op; ph: Gabriel Figueroa

1969        Coogan's Bluff [Don Siegel] c.op; ph: Bud Thackery

1969        Two Mules for Sister Sara [Don Siegel] c.op; ph: Gabriel Figueroa

1970        Triangle [Bernard Glasser] c.op; ph: Jacques R. Marquette