Brief Filmographies

Following are filmographies of cinematographers and production designers who are featured in If It’s Purple, Someone’s Gonna Die. Each of these filmmakers has done many superb films. These are the ones that are, at this moment in time, the most relevant to this book.

Robert Boyle:

The Shootist, Fiddler on the Roof, The Thomas Crown Affair (Original), Marnie, The Birds, North by Northwest

Henry Bumstead:

Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Bloodwork, Unforgiven, The Sting, Slaughterhouse-Five

Roger Deakins, BSC, ASC:

House of Sand and Fog, A Beautiful Mind, The Man Who Wasn’t There, [O] Brother, Where Art Thou?, Kundun, The Shawshank Redemption

Edward Lachman, ASC:

Far from Heaven, Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides, My Family/Mi ...

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