James Signorelli

James Signorelli
Born	US
Occupation(s)	Film director, cinematographer

James Signorelli is an American film director and cinematographer. ^[1] He was the film segment producer for more than 400 episodes of Saturday Night Live from 1976 until 2011. ^[2] He has produced many of the commercial parodies for which the show is noted.

Selected filmography

• Super Fly (1972) (director of photography)
• Black Caesar (1973) (directory of photography, Harlem sequence)
• Saturday Night Live (1976-2011) (film producer)
• The Concert in Central Park , concert film of Simon & Garfunkel (1982) (producer only)
• Easy Money (1983)
• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
• Chance M. Romero's New Mistress of the Dark (2003) (film producer/himself)
• January the 13th (2022) (film producer)

References

1. "James Signorelli - About This Person - Movies & TV - NYTimes.com". www.nytimes.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2025-11-30.
2. Creating Saturday Night Live: Makeup. YouTube . Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine

External links

• James Signorelli at IMDb
• Signorelli guest lecturing at the New York Film Academy