Thomas E. Ackerman
Personal Info
Know For
Camera
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-09-14 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Also known As
Thomas Ackerman
Thomas E. Ackerman
Biography
Cinematographer Thomas Ackerman was born on 14 September, 1948 at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and enrolled in the University of Iowa, where he took a cinema course. He was hired by the university to shoot football games and training films for its School of Dentistry. In 1968 he went to work for Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Guggenheim, who became his mentor. After a stint in the US Air Force he went back to work for Guggenheim in Washington, DC. He moved to Los Angeles in 1973, hooked up with his Air Force buddy Mike Robeand was hired as a camera operator on a succession of Hollywood films, includingFrancis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart (1981)...
Production
1988
as Director of Photography
2006
as Director of Photography
1997
as Director of Photography
1994
as Director of Photography
1989
as Director of Photography
2005
as Director of Photography
2002
as Director of Photography
2008
as Director of Photography
2004
as Director of Photography
1993
as Director of Photography
1995
as Director of Photography
2007
as Director of Photography
2001
as Director of Photography
2006
as Director of Photography
2004
as Director of Photography
1986
as Director of Photography
2011
as Director of Photography
2003
as Director of Photography
1991
as Director of Photography
2011
as Second Unit Director of Photography
2011
as Second Unit Director
2015
as Second Unit Director
1980
as Director of Photography
1984
as Director of Photography
1978
as Camera Operator
1982
as Camera Operator
2011
as Director of Photography
2006
as Director of Photography
1999
as Director of Photography
2000
as Director of Photography
2003
as Director of Photography
1982
as Camera Operator
2000
as Director of Photography
1987
as Second Unit Director of Photography
1997
as Director of Photography
1999
as Director of Photography
2009
as Director of Photography
1982
as Director of Photography
1985
as Director of Photography
1988
as Director of Photography
2015
as Director of Photography
2009
as Director of Photography
1984
as Cinematography
2003
as Producer
2003
as Cinematography
1981
as Cinematography
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