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Alexander Witt profile
Director

Alexander Witt

Camera

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Directed credits

54

Prolific

Very extensive directing filmography.

TMDB popularity

0.9

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Directed movies: 54Directed series: 0All crew credits: 65

TMDB ID: 17649

IMDb ID: nm0936838

Known for: Camera

Born: April 10, 1952

Age: 73

Place of birth: Santiago, Chile

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1979 - 2024

Years active: 46

Average TMDB rating: 6.5

Wikidata: Q1383818

Frequent jobs

Second Unit Director (33)Second Unit Director of Photography (14)Director (4)Director of Photography (3)Camera Operator (7)"B" Camera Operator (1)Additional Photography (1)Assistant Camera (1)First Assistant Camera (1)

Biography

Alexander B. Witt (born 1952) is a Chilean Hollywood filmmaker who has worked mostly as a camera operator and second unit director. His feature directorial debut came in 2004 with Resident Evil: Apocalypse, based on the popular Capcom video game series. Witt also became the 2nd unit director on the James Bond movie Casino Royale in 2006. From a 2004 interview on IGN, he says this about his history: "I was born in Chile, the third generation of Germans there. And, we moved to Mexico, from Mexico in '73 I moved to Europe, where I started working in film. I started with Arriflex, the company that makes the cameras. I was there for a year and I did kind of a trainee type of year where I was in the sound department, in the lab, in the studio working with the actual productions and also assembling cameras. And then I moved to Europe, where I lived three years, and then, back in '76, I did my first movie as a camera assistant, which was 21 Hours at Munich. And then, I kept on going, I moved up to focus puller or first AC, and then operating and then DP-ing. And then I was DP-ing commercials and then I started directing commercials in the late 80's and beginning of [the] 90's. I was working with Jan and doing his second unit as a DP while he was a DP He is the one that really gave me the break on Speed 1 to start directing second unit." Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Witt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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