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M. David Mullen

Born June 26, 1962 · Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan (age 64)

M. David Mullen, A.S.C. (born Meritt David Mullen III; 26 June 1962) is a Japanese-born American cinematographer known for his photography on Twin Falls Idaho, Northfork, Akeelah and the Bee, The Astronaut Farmer, Jennifer's Body, and The Love Witch, and for numerous television series, including The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for which he won an Emmy Award. He often collaborates with The Polish brother…

Known For

Jennifer's Body

Jennifer's Body · 2009

Jennifer's Body

MovieHorrorComedy

Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her best friend to stop Jennifer's reign of terror before it's too late.

D.E.B.S.

D.E.B.S. · 2005

MovieActionComedy

The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.

Akeelah and the Bee

Akeelah and the Bee · 2006

Akeelah and the Bee

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr. Larabee, she reaches the finals. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.

The Love Witch

The Love Witch · 2016

MovieHorrorComedy

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

The Astronaut Farmer

The Astronaut Farmer · 2007

The Astronaut Farmer

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.

Assassination of a High School President

Assassination of a High School President · 2008

Assassination of a High School President

MovieComedyMystery

After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief.

Stay Cool

Stay Cool · 2011

MovieComedyRomance

A successful author is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting author and invites him to the prom.

The Quiet

The Quiet · 2005

MovieDramaThriller

After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.

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Jennifer's Body

Jennifer's Body · 2009

Jennifer's Body

MovieHorrorComedy

Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her best friend to stop Jennifer's reign of terror before it's too late.

Director of Photography

D.E.B.S.

D.E.B.S. · 2005

MovieActionComedy

The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.

Director of Photography

Akeelah and the Bee

Akeelah and the Bee · 2006

Akeelah and the Bee

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr. Larabee, she reaches the finals. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.

Director of Photography

The Love Witch

The Love Witch · 2016

MovieHorrorComedy

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

Director of Photography

The Astronaut Farmer

The Astronaut Farmer · 2007

The Astronaut Farmer

MovieScience FictionAdventure

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel, and the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan – but Charles is undeterred.

Director of Photography

Assassination of a High School President

Assassination of a High School President · 2008

Assassination of a High School President

MovieComedyMystery

After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief.

Director of Photography

Stay Cool

Stay Cool · 2011

MovieComedyRomance

A successful author is forced to confront an unrequited high school crush when he returns home to deliver a commencement address to graduating seniors. Shasta O'Neil, a sexy high school senior flirts with the visiting author and invites him to the prom.

Director of Photography

The Quiet

The Quiet · 2005

MovieDramaThriller

After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.

Director of Photography

The Clean and Narrow

The Clean and Narrow · 2000

The Clean and Narrow

An ex-convict tries to make an honest living and take care of his girlfriend and her mentally slow brother.

Cinematography

90 Minutes in Heaven

90 Minutes in Heaven · 2015

90 Minutes in Heaven

A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.

Director of Photography

Northfork

Northfork · 2003

MovieFantasyDrama

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.

Director of Photography

Devil in the Flesh

Devil in the Flesh · 1998

Devil in the Flesh

MovieHorrorThriller

When her mother is killed in a mysterious house fire, rebellious teen Debbie Strand is sent to live with her grandmother, where she becomes even more unhinged. She develops an intense crush on her hunky creative writing teacher, Peter Rinaldi, but her numerous attempts at seduction end in failure. Soon Peter's friends start turning up dead, and he fears that his fiancée, Marilyn, may be Debbie's next victim.

Second Unit Director of Photography

Solstice

Solstice · 2008

MovieDramaHorror

While on a summer trip with her friends, Megan begins to feel the presence of Sophie, her twin sister who recently committed suicide.

Director of Photography

Big Sur

Big Sur · 2013

Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.

Director of Photography

Infested

Infested · 2002

MovieScience FictionHorror

Horror tale of insects which eat their victims from the inside out.

Director of Photography

Daddy's Girl

Daddy's Girl · 1996

MovieHorrorThriller

A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.

Director of Photography

Lipstick Camera

Lipstick Camera · 1994

Lipstick Camera

Ambitious young woman wants to get into TV news. She borrows a small camera from a friend and obtains incriminating pictures that two former East German spies are after.

Director of Photography

Vampires: Out for Blood

Vampires: Out for Blood · 2004

Vampires: Out for Blood

MovieActionFantasy

In the dark, throbbing world of underground raves, people are vanishing without a trace and Detective Hank Holten is the only one who knows the terrible truth. Vampires.

Director of Photography

Twin Falls Idaho

Twin Falls Idaho · 1999

Twin Falls Idaho

MovieDramaRomance

Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While sharing some organs, Blake is always fit and Francis is very sickly. Into their world comes a young lady, who turns their world upside down. She gets involved with Blake, and convinces the two to attend a Halloween party, where they can pass themselves off as wearing a costume. Eventually Francis becomes really ill, and they have to be separated. They then face the physical and mental strains that come from their proposed separation.

Director of Photography

The Stepdaughter

The Stepdaughter · 2000

The Stepdaughter

MovieHorrorTV Movie

Growing up, Susan Miller survived countless foster homes and years of abuse and neglect with one, burning goal: to someday find the birth mother who abandoned her - and get revenge.

Second Unit Director of Photography

Shadowboxer

Shadowboxer · 2005

MovieActionCrime

Mikey and Rose are professional assassins. They are also lovers, and once upon a time Rose also knew Mikey's father. During an elaborate hit job for a malicious gangster, Rose fails to kill the main target, the gangster's pregnant girlfriend. Instead, she delivers her baby and convinces Mikey to help her protect them both. As Rose weakens from cancer, Mikey becomes breadwinner for this unusual family. But tranquility will not last.

Director of Photography

Dead Cold

Dead Cold · 1996

MovieHorrorDrama

When a carjacking leaves L.A. screenwriter Eric recovering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, wife Alicia nurses him back to health. Four months later, the two depart for a second honeymoon in an idyllic setting in the mountains. They are snuggly ensconced in front of a crackling fire when Cale, a hunter who's ostensibly lost his sense of direction in the snow storm and nearly frozen to death, appears at their cabin door.

Director of Photography

New Suit

New Suit · 2003

A once-idealistic writer inadvertently ignites a feeding frenzy in Hollywood with the mention of a mysterious new screenplay and its illusive author.

Director of Photography

Seven Days in Utopia

Seven Days in Utopia · 2011

Seven Days in Utopia

Talent can only get you so far. For golfer Luke Chisholm, that turns out to be Utopia, Texas -- where he's left stranded after blowing his pro debut.

Director of Photography

The Good Wife

The Good Wife · 2009

Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail.

Director of Photography

Westworld

Westworld · 2016

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyWestern

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

Additional Photography

Designated Survivor

Designated Survivor · 2016

Designated Survivor

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.

Director of Photography

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel · 2017

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

SeriesComedyDrama

It’s 1958 Manhattan and Miriam “Midge” Maisel has everything she’s ever wanted - the perfect husband, kids, and Upper West Side apartment. But when her life suddenly takes a turn and Midge must start over, she discovers a previously unknown talent - one that will take her all the way from the comedy clubs of Greenwich Village to a spot on Johnny Carson’s couch.

Director of Photography

Extant

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.

Director of Photography

Get Shorty

Get Shorty · 2017

SeriesCrimeComedy

Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times bestselling novel.

Director of Photography

Étoile

Étoile · 2025

SeriesComedyDrama

In an ambitious gambit to save their storied institutions, two world-renowned ballet companies in New York City and Paris swap their most talented stars.

Director of Photography