Throughout film history, the U.S. state of Oregon has been a popular shooting location for filmmakers due to its wide range of landscapes, as well as its proximity to California, specifically Hollywood. [1] The first documented commercial film made in Oregon was a short silent film titled The Fisherman's Bride , shot in Astoria by the Selig Polyscope Company, and released in 1909. [2] Another documentary short, Fast Mail, Northern Pacific Railroad, was shot in Portland in 1897.
Since then, numerous major motion pictures have been shot in the state, including F.W. Murnau's City Girl (1930), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Animal House (1978), Stand by Me (1986), Free Willy (1993), and Wild (2014). Portland—Oregon's largest city—has been a major shooting location for filmmakers, and has been featured prominently in the films of Gus Van Sant, namely Mala Noche (1985), Drugstore Cowboy (1989), My Own Private Idaho (1991), and Elephant (2003).
This list of films shot is organized first by region, and then chronologically by year. [3] Some films may appear more than once if they were shot in more than one region.
Film | Year | Location(s) | Ref. |
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Where Cowboy is King | 1915 | Pendleton | [3] |
Passing on the West | 1924 | Pendleton | [3] |
Winds of Chance | 1925 | Wallowa County | [3] |
City Girl | 1928 | [4] | |
Our Daily Bread | 1928 | Pendleton | [5] |
Singing Waters | 1931 | Pendleton | [3] |
The Lusty Men | 1952 | Pendleton | |
The Great Sioux Uprising | 1953 | Pendleton | [6] |
Pillars of the Sky | 1955 | La Grande | [7] |
Paint Your Wagon | 1969 | Baker | [8] |
Napoleon and Samantha | 1972 | John Day | [9] |
Joe Bell | 2020 | La Grande | [10] |
The Year in Lincoln Plains | 1987 | Condon | [3] |
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey | 1993 | Joseph | [11] |
8 Seconds | 1994 | Pendleton | [3] |
Sammyville | 1998 | La Grande | [3] |
Dog Story | 1999 | La Grande | [3] |
New Life | 2023 | Joseph | |
Breakup Season | 2024 | La Grande | [12] |
Film | Year | Location(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
Bronco Billy | 1980 | [13] | |
Meek's Cutoff | 2010 | Burns | [14] |
Lean on Pete | 2018 | Burns | [15] |
Film | Year | Location(s) | Ref. |
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The Indian Fighter | 1955 | Bend | |
Oregon Passage | 1957 | Bend | |
Tonka | 1958 | Bend | |
Day of the Outlaw | 1959 | Bend | [81] |
The Incredible Journey | 1963 | [82] | |
Strike Me Deadly | 1963 | Bend | [83] |
Mara of the Wilderness | 1965 | Deschutes National Forest | [3] |
The Way West | 1967 | ||
American Wilderness | 1971 | ||
Rooster Cogburn | 1975 | Bend | |
The Apple Dumpling Gang | 1975 | Bend | [3] |
Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot | 1976 | [84] | |
St. Helens | 1981 | ||
Up the Creek | 1984 | Bend | |
From Oregon With Love | 1984 | Central Oregon | |
From Oregon With Love III | 1990 | Central Oregon | |
Love at Large | 1990 | [3] | |
White Wolves | 1992 | Bend | |
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues | 1993 | ||
The Postman | 1997 | Central Oregon | [24] |
Salvation | 1998 | Bend | |
Swordfish | 2001 | Smith Rock | [85] |
Management | 2008 | Madras | [3] |
The Wait | 2013 | [86] | |
Film | Year | Location |
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Barriers of Folly | 1922 | Unknown |
Bulldog Courage | 1922 | Unknown |
His Last Assignment | 1922 | Unknown |
The Mine Looters | 1922 | Unknown |
The Range Patrol | 1922 | Unknown |
Underground Trail | 1922 | Unknown |
The Covered Wagon | 1923 | Unknown |
Crashing Courage | 1923 | Unknown |
Flames of Passion | 1923 | Unknown |
Scars of Hate | 1923 | Unknown |
Driftwood | 1924 | Unknown |
Shackles of Fear | 1924 | Unknown |
Trail of Vengeance | 1924 | Unknown |
Hills Aflame | 1925 | Unknown |
Peggy of the Secret Service | 1925 | Unknown |
Phantom Shadows | 1925 | Unknown |
Scarlet and Gold | 1925 | Unknown |
The Fighting Chance | 1925 | Unknown |
The Fighting Romeo | 1925 | Unknown |
Vanishing Horse | 1925 | Unknown |
Forbidden Traffic | 1927 | Unknown |
The Big Trail | 1930 | Unknown |
Big Timber | 1937 | Unknown |
Running Wild | 1938 | Unknown |
The Character | 1961 | Unknown |
Adventure West | 1962 | Unknown |
Bad Trip | 1988 | Unknown |
The Old Portland Underground, better known locally as the Shanghai tunnels, is a group of passages in Portland, Oregon, United States, mainly underneath the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood and connecting to the main business section. The tunnels connected the basements of many hotels and taverns to the waterfront of the Willamette River. They were built to move goods from the ships docked on the Willamette to the basement storage areas, allowing businesses to avoid streetcar and train traffic on the streets when delivering their goods.
KPXG-TV is a television station licensed to Salem, Oregon, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Portland area. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station has offices on Southwest Naito Parkway in downtown Portland, and its transmitter is located in the Sylvan-Highlands section of the city.
The rate of crime in Oregon, at least since 1985, has varied from below the United States national average to slightly above, depending on if one is looking at violent crime or property crime statistics. The violent crime rate remained below the national average every year between 1985 and 2022, while property crime generally remained above the average during that time. Every year between 2011 and 2020, Oregon maintained one of the 20 lowest violent crime rates in the United States. However, some of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history were known for killing or operating in Oregon, including perhaps the most famous, Ted Bundy, as well as the second most prolific in terms of confirmed murders, Gary Ridgway, among many others.
The Gypsy Restaurant and Velvet Lounge was a restaurant and nightclub established in 1947 and located along Northwest 21st Avenue in the Northwest District neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Popular with young adults, the restaurant was known for serving fishbowl alcoholic beverages, for its 1950s furnishings, and for hosting karaoke, trivia competitions, and goldfish racing tournaments. The restaurant is said to have influenced local alcohol policies; noise complaints and signs of drunken behavior by patrons made the business a target for curfews and closure. Concept Entertainment owned the restaurant from 1992 until 2014 when it was closed unexpectedly.
Movie Madness Video is a video rental shop and museum of film history in Portland, Oregon's Sunnyside neighborhood, in the United States.
Burnside Brewing Company was a brewery based in Portland, Oregon.
Cafe Nell is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Northwest District, United States. The restaurant is owned by Vanessa Preston.
Byways Cafe was a diner in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon, United States. Owners, Collin McFadden and Megan Brinkley, opened the restaurant in 1999, serving American breakfast and brunch comfort foods such as corned beef hash, omelets, and pancakes. Guy Fieri visited the diner for a 2007 episode of the Food Network show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Byways received generally positive receptions and was voted the city's "best brunch spot" by readers of The Oregonian in 2016. It closed in late 2019, after the owners were unable to reach a lease agreement with the landlord.
Fuller's Coffee Shop is a diner serving standard American cuisine in Portland, Oregon's Pearl District, in the United States. Established in 1947, the restaurant has operated from its location in downtown Portland since 1960. It serves breakfast all day, and the menu features a cheeseburger with a recipe that has not changed since the diner's establishment. Described as a greasy spoon, Fuller's has received a generally positive reception, and appeared in an episode of the television series Grimm in 2017. Founded by Jack Fuller, the diner was later owned by his son John then by Urban Restaurant Group.
Tin Shed Garden Cafe, often shortened as Tin Shed, is a restaurant in Portland, Oregon's King neighborhood. Co-owned by Christie Griffin and Janette Kaden, the dog-friendly cafe opened in 2002 and serves American cuisine.
Bijou Cafe was a restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Old Town Chinatown, in the United States. The restaurant closed in 2020.
Edelweiss Sausage & Delicatessen, or simply Edelweiss, is a delicatessen in southeast Portland, Oregon's Brooklyn neighborhood, in the United States.
Ataula was a Spanish and Catalan restaurant in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. The restaurant earned Jose Chesa a James Beard Foundation Award nomination in the Best Chef: Northwest category.
Victoria Bar is a bar and restaurant in Portland, Oregon.
Frank's Noodle House is a Chinese restaurant with two locations in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, in the United States. The original restaurant opened in northeast Portland and a second operates in Beaverton. A third location is slated to open in northwest Portland's Pearl District in 2025.
Matt's BBQ is a barbecue restaurant in Portland, Oregon's Boise neighborhood, in the United States. The business has also operated in Beaverton. It has been featured on the Food Network series Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Sibling restaurant Matt's BBQ Tacos, also located in Portland, opened in 2019.
Shanghai Tunnel Bar, or simply Shanghai Tunnel, is a dive bar and Asian restaurant in the Old Town Chinatown neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Named after the city's Shanghai tunnels, the underground bar serves Asian-themed cocktails and foods such as BLTs, Chinese chicken salad, miso and noodle soup, quesadillas, and veggie burgers. Owned by Phil Ragaway, Shanghai Tunnel is known for its inexpensive drinks and pinball machines. The bar closed temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic, and later offered street-level service.
P's & Q's Market is a grocer and restaurant in Portland, Oregon, United States. It opened in 2013 and Guy Fieri visited for an episode of the Food Network series Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
End credits include the following statements: "Shot on location in Eugene, Oregon."
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