Phil Parmet

Last updated
Phil Parmet
Born
Philip Alan Parmet

(1942-03-07) March 7, 1942 (age 79)
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation Cinematographer
Known for Grindhouse, Four Rooms, Halloween, The Devil's Rejects

Phil Parmet, (born March 7, 1942) is an American cinematographer and producer.

He began his career as a cinematographer for documentary films. His first successes were The Song Remains The Same about Led Zeppelin, Baby Snakes about Frank Zappa, and the Academy Award-winning He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' featuring Kevin Kline.

His first feature film credits include In the Soup (starring Steve Buscemi), Distant Justice (starring David Carradine), Two Small Bodies (starring Fred Ward and Suzy Amis), Cyborg 3 (starring Malcolm McDowell), Nina Takes A Lover (starring Laura San Giacomo), Quentin Tarantino's Four Rooms (starring Antonio Banderas and Bruce Willis), as well as The Last Days of Frankie the Fly (starring Kiefer Sutherland). [1]

More notable credits include Black & White , Hard Cash, Dallas 362, Lonesome Jim, The Devil's Rejects, Halloween , Blue State , Grindhouse , The Roommate , Six Bullets , and The Possession of Michael King .

He is also a still photographer and married to costume designer Lisa Parmet. [2]

Related Research Articles

American Society of Cinematographers

The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), founded in Hollywood in 1919, is a cultural, educational, and professional organization that is neither a labor union nor a guild. The society was organized to advance the science and art of cinematography and gather a wide range of cinematographers to discuss techniques and ideas and to advocate for motion pictures as a type of art form. Currently, the president of the ASC is Stephen Lighthill.

Scott Caan American actor

Scott Andrew Caan is an American actor, director, photographer, writer, and former rapper. He starred as Detective Sergeant Danny "Danno" Williams in the CBS television series Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Caan had a recurring role as manager Scott Lavin in the HBO television series Entourage (2009–2011). In the 1990s, he was a rapper apart of hip hop group The Whooliganz with The Alchemist, under the pseudonym Mad Skillz.

Freddie Francis English cinematographer and film director (1917–2007)

Frederick William Francis was an English cinematographer and film director.

Santosh Sivan Indian cinematographer

Santosh Sivan is an Indian cinematographer, film director, producer and actor known for his works in Malayalam cinema, Tamil cinema and Hindi cinema. Santosh graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) and has to date completed 55 feature films and 50 documentaries. He is a founding member of the Indian Society of Cinematographers (ISC) and is the most awarded Director of Photography (DOP) in India. Santosh became the first Cinematographer in the Asia-Pacific region to join the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) membership. As a cinematographer, he has won five National Film Awards – including four for Best Feature Film Cinematography. As of 2014, he has received eleven National Film Awards, and twenty one international awards for his works. He was awarded the Padma Shri for his contributions to Indian cinema in 2014.

Haskell Wexler American filmmaker

Haskell Wexler, ASC was an American cinematographer, film producer, and director. Wexler was judged to be one of film history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography twice, in 1966 and 1976 in five nominations.

Tao Ruspoli Italian-American filmmaker and actor (born 1975)

PrinceTao Ruspoli is an Italian-American filmmaker, photographer, and musician.

Tom Schiller is an American writer best known for his eleven-year stint writing and directing short films for Saturday Night Live. His films, often featuring members of the original SNL cast, aired on the program in a segment titled, "Schiller's Reel." He is the son of TV comedy writer/producer Bob Schiller.

Charles Lang American cinematographer

Charles Bryant Lang Jr., A.S.C. was an American cinematographer.

Adrian Biddle, BSC, was an English cinematographer.

Shane Meadows English director, screenwriter and actor

Shane Meadows is an English director, screenwriter and actor, known for his work in independent film, most notably the cult film This Is England (2006) and its three sequels (2010–2015).

Owen Roizman is an American cinematographer. He has received five Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography, for the films The French Connection (1971), The Exorcist (1973), Network (1976), Tootsie (1982), and Wyatt Earp (1994). He served on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was president of the American Society of Cinematographers.

Michael Wadleigh, also known as Michael Wadley, is an American film director and cinematographer renowned for his groundbreaking documentary of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, Woodstock.

Robert Michael Givens is an American film director and cinematographer.

Denis Crossan, B.S.C. is a cinematographer. He attended the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield.

Frank Harris was an American film director, producer and cinematographer who has been working in films since the late 1970s. His work as a director includes Killpoint in 1984, Low Blow and The Patriot in 1986, If We Knew Then in 1987 and Lockdown in 1990. He originally worked as a television reporter.

Nathan Hope is an American cinematographer and director of film and television.

John Guleserian is an American cinematographer. He is best known for his collaboration with Drake Doremus on Like Crazy and Breathe In, and for the 2013 film About Time.

Lee Frost was a film director, producer, cinematographer, editor and occasional actor. He directed a string of exploitation movies including Love Camp 7, Chain Gang Women, Chrome and Hot Leather, The Thing with Two Heads, The Black Gestapo, Dixie Dynamite and Private Obsession.

Jonathan Freeman, ASC is a Canadian cinematographer. A multi-award-winning director of photography for motion pictures, television and commercials, he is known for his work on Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire. Freeman's motion picture credits include Remember Me, Fifty Dead Men Walking, The Edge of Love, Hollywoodland and The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio. He frequently collaborates with directors Allen Coulter, Ernest Dickerson, David Nutter, and Russell Mulcahy

Parmet is a Jewish surname derived from the Yiddish word "permentyon" (פּערמענטיאָן), meaning parchment.

References