Jack N. Green Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Lifetime Achievement Award at Bearfest, the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival, in 2003
• Won a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 from the American Society of Cinematographers
• The Society of Camera Operators honored him with its President's Award in 1998
• Joined the American Society of Cinematographers in 1992
• Attended barber college and began working as a full time barber in one of the barbershops his family owned, planning to one day take over the family business
• Shared an interest in photography with his father when he was a child
• Talked his way into a part-time job as a camera assistant when a cameraman started regularly getting his hair cut at the barbershop where Green worked
• Quote: "I realized the fewer lights you had, the fewer complications there were․"
• Quote: "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․"
• Frequently collaborated with director Clint Eastwood, serving as a camera operator on every Eastwood film from "The Gauntlet" forward until he moved up to cinematographer on "Heartbreak Ridge․"