John S. Bartley Biography

Fast Facts

• Was nominated for three American Society of Cinematographers Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Regular Series for "The X-Files" in 1995, 1996, and 1997
• Won a Kodak New Century Award from the Canadian Society of Cinematographers in 2001
• Became interested in film as a teenager in New Zealand, where he would watch double features of Westerns and film noirs at the Cinerama
• Learned about lighting and stage mechanics at his mother's theater and first worked as a lighting technician at Sydney's Channel 7 News
• Started out as a rigging gaffer on the documentary film "Spartree" in 1978
• Quote: "I think movies and television have a great affect on society, because so many people get their ideas about past, current and future history from them․"
• Best known as a cinematographer on "The X-Files," "Lost," and "The Chronicles of Riddick․"