Dean Cundey Biography

Fast Facts

• He graduated from the University of California Los Angeles Film School in 1968
• Quote: "(On his early work) "Without the crutch of just being able to fix it in post-production so easily now, you really had to be thoughtful about the effect you were going to do, and the moment you were going to try to create․""
• Quote: "(On working with director John Carpenter on the film "Halloween") "It was one of my very earliest steps into working with a director who knew the importance of the camera, of the visual image as far as storytelling․""
• In his early days after graduating from film school, he assembled a van that was outfitted with equipment, camera and a crew and used its convenience as a selling point when he was soliciting jobs
• Five films he worked on for director John Carpenter are "Halloween," "The Fog," "Escape from New York," "The Thing" and "Big Trouble in Little China․"
• He was the director of photography of all three installments of "Back to the Future," and he had a small cameo as a photographer in "Part III․"
• Six films he worked on for director Robert Zemeckis are "Romancing the Stone," the "Back to the Future" trilogy, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and "Death Becomes Her․"