Dean Cundey - Details

Biography

DEAN CUNDEY, A.S.C., previously collaborated with director Nancy Meyers on "The Parent Trap." He earned an Oscar® nomination for his work on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and the American Society of Cinematographers' Outstanding Achievement Award nominations for "Hook" and "Apollo 13." His additional credits include "Jurassic Park," the "Back to the Future" trilogy, "Death Becomes Her," "The Flintstones" and "Casper."

Cundey graduated from UCLA and worked his way up in the film industry to become a director of photography, initially on low-budget genre horror films. His breakthrough feature as cinematographer was John Carpenter's "Halloween," which led to "Escape from New York," "Romancing the Stone" and "Big Business."