Ken Kelsch

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1947-07-08 (76 years old)

Deathday

2023-12-11

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York, USA

Ken Kelsch

Biography

Kenneth Arthur Kelsch (July 8, 1947 – December 11, 2023) was an American cinematographer. He was best known for his guerilla filmmaking style and his career-spanning partnership with filmmaker Abel Ferrara, with whom he made more than a dozen films, including The Driller Killer (1979), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Dangerous Game (1993), The Addiction (1995), The Blackout (1997), and Welcome to New York (2014), as well as a segment of the HBO dark comedy drama anthology series Subway Stories (1997).

Acting

1999

New Rose Hotel

as The Expeditor

1993

Dangerous Game

as Camera Operator (uncredited)

1998

Susan's Plan

as Casino Pit Boss

2008

100 Feet

as Garbage Man

Production

2003

Testosterone

as Director of Photography

1998

Rear Window

as Director of Photography

1992

Bad Lieutenant

as Director of Photography

1986

Spookies

as Director of Photography

1992

Killer Dead

as Director of Photography

2008

100 Feet

as Director of Photography

2018

Talking with the Vampires

as Director of Photography

2019

The Projectionist

as Director of Photography

1997

Every 9 Seconds

as Director of Photography

1999

Invisible Child

as Director of Photography

1996

The Prosecutors

as Director of Photography

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Manson Girls

as Director of Photography

1997

Subway Stories

as Director of Photography

1999

New Rose Hotel

as Director of Photography

2014

Welcome to New York

as Director of Photography

2012

4:44 Last Day on Earth

as Director of Photography

1998

The Impostors

as Director of Photography

1996

The Funeral

as Director of Photography

1996

Big Night

as Director of Photography

1979

The Driller Killer

as Director of Photography

1993

Dangerous Game

as Director of Photography

1994

Drop Squad

as Director of Photography

2009

Desert Flower

as Director of Photography

1997

The Blackout

as Director of Photography

1995

The Addiction

as Director of Photography

2001

'R Xmas

as Director of Photography

2005

Missing in America

as Director of Photography

1995

Condition Red

as Director of Photography

1998

Montana

as Director of Photography

1996

Killer: A Journal of Murder

as Director of Photography

2008

Chelsea on the Rocks

as Director of Photography

2008

Sıcak

as Director of Photography

2003

Happy End

as Director of Photography

2008

Return to Sleepaway Camp

as Director of Photography

2003

Asmalı Konak: Hayat

as Director of Photography

2000

It Had to Be You

as Director of Photography

2013

House of Last Things

as Director of Photography

1998

Susan's Plan

as Director of Photography

2005

Before It Had a Name

as Director of Photography

2016

The Brooklyn Banker

as Director of Photography

1998

A Brooklyn State of Mind

as Director of Photography

1996

1982

In Our Water

as Additional Camera

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