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David Myers

Born May 8, 1914 · Auburn, New York, USA

Died August 26, 2004 · aged 90

David Myers was a cinematographer best-known for his camera work on landmark concert documentaries such as 'Woodstock', 'Elvis on Tour' and 'The Grateful Dead Movie', and 'Cracked Actor'. He started as still photographer after being inspired by the works of Walker Evans in an exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1938.

Known For

House of 1000 Corpses

House of 1000 Corpses · 2003

House of 1000 Corpses

Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz · 1978

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with probing backstage interviews and featured performances by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, and other rock legends.

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese · 2019

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.

THX 1138

THX 1138 · 1971

MovieScience FictionDrama

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

The Black Stallion Returns

The Black Stallion Returns · 1983

The Black Stallion Returns

MovieFamilyAdventure

"Black" is a stunning fire-and-silk stallion celebrated the world over. But to his young American owner, Alec Ramsay, he's much more. So, when the amazing animal is stolen, Alec will stop at nothing to get him back. Alec finally unravels the mystery of Black's theft...only to discover that he must overcome even greater odds to reclaim his beloved horse.

Deadly Force

Deadly Force · 1983

MovieActionCrime

Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now ekes out a living as a freelancer in New York. All this changes when the daughter of an old friend is killed by serial killer terrorizing L.A. Although almost nobody in his old home town is happy to see him back, Cooper pledges to bring the killer to justice before any more innocent people die.

Human Highway

Human Highway · 1982

MovieScience FictionComedy

The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.

...And Your Name Is Jonah

...And Your Name Is Jonah · 1979

...And Your Name Is Jonah

MovieDramaTV Movie

A couple whose son had been institutionalized for three years are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is, in fact, deaf.

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House of 1000 Corpses

House of 1000 Corpses · 2003

House of 1000 Corpses

Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

Additional Second Assistant Camera

The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz · 1978

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with probing backstage interviews and featured performances by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, and other rock legends.

Additional Director of Photography

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese · 2019

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.

Director of Photography

THX 1138

THX 1138 · 1971

MovieScience FictionDrama

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

Director of Photography

The Black Stallion Returns

The Black Stallion Returns · 1983

The Black Stallion Returns

MovieFamilyAdventure

"Black" is a stunning fire-and-silk stallion celebrated the world over. But to his young American owner, Alec Ramsay, he's much more. So, when the amazing animal is stolen, Alec will stop at nothing to get him back. Alec finally unravels the mystery of Black's theft...only to discover that he must overcome even greater odds to reclaim his beloved horse.

Director of Photography

Deadly Force

Deadly Force · 1983

MovieActionCrime

Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now ekes out a living as a freelancer in New York. All this changes when the daughter of an old friend is killed by serial killer terrorizing L.A. Although almost nobody in his old home town is happy to see him back, Cooper pledges to bring the killer to justice before any more innocent people die.

Director of Photography

Human Highway

Human Highway · 1982

MovieScience FictionComedy

The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.

Director of Photography

...And Your Name Is Jonah

...And Your Name Is Jonah · 1979

...And Your Name Is Jonah

MovieDramaTV Movie

A couple whose son had been institutionalized for three years are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is, in fact, deaf.

Director of Photography

Woodstock

Woodstock · 1970

MovieDocumentaryMusic

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.

Camera Operator

The Secret Life of Plants

The Secret Life of Plants · 1978

The Secret Life of Plants

MovieFamilyDocumentary

A documentary about the study of plant sentience with original music by Stevie Wonder. Utilizing time-lapse photography, the film proposes that plants are able to experience emotions and communicate with the world around them.

Director of Photography

Renaldo and Clara

Renaldo and Clara · 1978

Renaldo and Clara

MovieDramaMusic

Filmed in the autumn of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour – featuring appearances and performances by Ronee Blakley, T-Bone Burnett, Jack Elliott, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Hawkins, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Arlen Roth, Phil Ochs, Sam Shepard, and Harry Dean Stanton – the film incorporates three distinct film genres: concert footage, documentary interviews, and dramatic fictional vignettes reflective of Dylan's song lyrics and life.

Director of Photography

Black Panthers

Black Panthers · 1968

MovieDocumentary

A film shot during the summer of 1968 in Oakland, California around the meetings organised by the Black Panthers Party to free Huey Newton, one of their leaders, and to turn his trial into a political debate. They tried and succeeded in catching America’s attention.

Director of Photography

MovieComedyDrama

When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined to fight back, no matter the cost.

Director of Photography

Tom Waits: Big Time

Tom Waits: Big Time · 1988

Tom Waits: Big Time

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Bringing his unique sense of humor to this bizarre and original piece of moviemaking, Tom Waits takes the audience through a musical journey with his jazzy, quirky, bluesy tunes presented as you would never, ever, ever expect.

Camera Operator

Roadie

MovieComedyMusic

A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.

Director of Photography

Welcome to L.A.

Welcome to L.A. · 1976

Welcome to L.A.

MovieRomanceDrama

The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.

Director of Photography

The Grateful Dead Movie

The Grateful Dead Movie · 1977

The Grateful Dead Movie

MovieMusicDocumentary

The Grateful Dead performs live at Winterland in San Francisco in October 1974.

Director of Photography

Die Laughing

Die Laughing · 1980

MovieComedyThriller

A San Francisco cab driver find himself in possession of a monkey that is carrying a formula for turning atomic waste into a plutonium bomb. He finds himself framed for a murder and chased…

Director of Photography

Hard Traveling

Hard Traveling · 1986

Set during the Depression, Dan Bessie's film (based on a novel by his father Alvah) stars Ellen Geer as a widow who begins a romance with an uneducated janitor (J.E. Freeman) who is later accused of murder.

Director of Photography

Let the Good Times Roll

Let the Good Times Roll · 1973

Let the Good Times Roll

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Documentary of a 1950s rock and roll revival show, with split-screen editing to rival Woodstock.

Director of Photography

UFOria

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Drifter and small-time con man Sheldon Bart encounters old friend, Brother Bud Sanders, a big-time con artist into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small town. Whilst helping Brother Bud, Sheldon falls in love with deeply religious and deeply lonely supermarket clerk Arlene, who believes in UFOs. When Arlene has a vision of an approaching UFO, everyone deals with the impending doom in their own ways.

Director of Photography

Bushman

Bushman · 1971

MovieDocumentaryDrama

1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined – poetic in its approach to real events.

Director of Photography

Uncle Yanco

Uncle Yanco · 1967

MovieDocumentary

While in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda, tipped by her friend Tom Luddy, gets to know a relative she had never heard of before, Jean Varda, nicknamed "Yanco". This hitherto unknown uncle lives on a boat in Sausalito, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life. The meeting is a very happy one.

Camera Operator

The Making of Star Wars

The Making of Star Wars · 1977

The Making of Star Wars

MovieDocumentaryTV Movie

Learn the incredible behind-the-scenes story of how the original Star Wars movie was brought to the big screen in this fascinating documentary hosted by C-3PO and R2-D2 which includes interviews with George Lucas and appearances by Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.

Director of Photography