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Jamie
Anderson Jamie Anderson was born and raised in New City, New York, some 30 miles from New York City. His grandfather was Maxwell Anderson, an eminent Broadway playwright, whose stage credits included What Price Glory, Lost in the Stars, Key Largo, The Bad Seed and Winterset. He also scripted a number of screenplays, including All Quiet on the Western Front and The Wrong Man. His father was a stage manager and director in the theater and also of early, live television programs, including The Kraft Theatre and directing live Kodak commercials on The Ed Sullivan Show. Anderson enrolled at Syracuse University with the intention of studying
architecture, however his interest shifted to film. He subsequently
transferred to New York University (NYU), and majored in film studies.
Anderson began his career as a production assistant in New York City,
working for Howard Zieff, a TV commercial director/ cinematographer.
An NYU classmate took him to Los Angeles to crew with him on a Roger
Corman film. Anderson shot a number of films for Corman, and he also
assisted various commercial shooters. By the mid-1970s, he was working
regularly as an assistant cameraman and then as an operator for such
noted cinematographers as Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC, Conrad Hall, ASC,
Bruce Surtees, ASC, Tak Fujimoto, ASC, Allen Daviau, ASC and John Alcott.
Anderson earned his first narrative feature credit as a cinematographer
in 1992 for Unlawful Entry. His subsequent credits include What's
Love Got to Do With It, Grosse Pointe Blank, Small Soldiers, The Gift,
and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and such telefilms as
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