Tobias A. Schliessler

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-11-05 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Tobias A. Schliessler

Biography

Tobias A. Schliessler (born 5 November 1958) is a German cinematographer. Schliessler was born in Baden-Baden, Germany, to documentary filmmaker and artist Martin Schliessler (1929–2008) and editor Anemone Schliessler (née Heim). His brother, Jochen, is a documentary filmmaker, and his sister, Tina, is a film producer, photographer, and painter. Schiessler grew up in Baden-Baden. In 1979, he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he later studied film at  Simon Fraser University. After graduating as a cinematographer, he started to work on documentary films and advertisement spots. In the late 1980s, he began to work for Canadi...

Production

2006

Dreamgirls

as Director of Photography

1995

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

as Director of Photography

2003

The Rundown

as Director of Photography

2008

Hancock

as Director of Photography

2021

There's Someone Inside Your House

as Second Unit Director of Photography

2012

Battleship

as Director of Photography

2013

Lone Survivor

as Director of Photography

1997

Volcano: Fire on the Mountain

as Director of Photography

1997

Mandela and de Klerk

as Director of Photography

2009

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

as Director of Photography

1994

Sin and Redemption

as Director of Photography

2004

Friday Night Lights

as Director of Photography

2015

Mr. Holmes

as Director of Photography

1991

Chaindance

as Director of Photography

1994

Double Cross

as Director of Photography

1998

Outrage

as Director of Photography

2018

The Rankin File: Legacy of a Radical

as Director of Photography

1989

Quarantine

as Director of Photography

1998

The Long Way Home

as Director of Photography

2022

The Adam Project

as Director of Photography

2017

Beauty and the Beast

as Director of Photography

2023

Rustin

as Director of Photography

1991

Writer's Block

as Director of Photography

1995

The Omen

as Director of Photography

1998

Hoods

as Director of Photography

1998

Legalese

as Director of Photography

2018

A Wrinkle in Time

as Director of Photography

2021

Come from Away

as Director of Photography

2000

Bait

as Director of Photography

2016

Patriots Day

as Director of Photography

1993

Just One of the Girls

as Director of Photography

1989

The Top of His Head

as Director of Photography

2025

Kiss of the Spider Woman

as Director of Photography

1992

South of Wawa

as Cinematography

1992

Sexual Advances

as Director of Photography

2020

Refugee

as Director of Photography

2019

The Good Liar

as Director of Photography

1994

Green Dolphin Beat

as Director of Photography

2020

Spenser Confidential

as Director of Photography

1997

Free Willy 3: The Rescue

as Director of Photography

1994

Killer

as Director of Photography

2013

The Fifth Estate

as Director of Photography

2020

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

as Director of Photography

2000

The Guilty

as Director of Photography

2021

Palmer

as Director of Photography

1997

Bliss

as Additional Photography

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John Wyre: Drawing on Sound

as Camera Operator

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