Jack Green, ASC
Biography

Jack Green was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area. He was a passionate still photographer during his boyhood, but decided to follow in his father’s and his uncle’s footsteps. Green attended barber school and began his career cutting other people’s hair.

Maybe it was destiny, because that’s how he met, Joe Dieves, a local director of photography. Green began working as an assistant cameraman with Dieves and other local cameramen in the San Francisco area. He frequently worked as an assistant on helicopter camera shoots, which led to an opportunity to work with Tyler Camera in Los Angeles. Green transitioned into narrative film work, and was an assistant cameraman and operator for about seven years.

He earned his first narrative credit for Heartbreak Ridge in 1982 and has subsequently compiled some 35 cinematography credits. Green earned an Oscar nomination for Unforgiven. His eclectic body of work includes Bird, White Hunter, Black Heart, A Perfect World, The Net, The Bridges of Madison County, Twister, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Secondhand Lions. He has also directed several films.