Bill Butler

Bill Butler

出生 : 1921-04-07, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA

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Bill Butler (born April 7, 1921) is an American cinematographer. He is known for his work on Jaws (1975), Grease (1978) and Rocky IV (1985).

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The Making of Rocky vs. Drago by Sylvester Stallone
Self (Archival Photos)
Fight alongside Sylvester Stallone as he creates a brand-new director's cut of Rocky IV: ROCKY VS. DRAGO. This feature-length documentary offers a personal and uncompromising look into the editing process, captured by Sly's longtime friend and fellow filmmaker John Herzfeld.
スピルバーグ!
Self
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Himself
Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, Allan Carr threw the Hollywood parties that defined the 1970s. A producer, manager, and marketing genius, Carr built his bombastic reputation amid a series of successes including the mega-hit musical film "Grease," until it all came crashing down after he produced the 1989 Academy Awards, a notorious debacle.
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of 'Jaws'
Self
After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focuses on the many ways in which Jaws has helped to shape popular culture.
Evil Angel
Director of Photography
Set in present day Chicago, the ancient avenging demon Lilith, attempts to destroy a young paramedic's life while destroying anyone who interferes with her plan.
Limousine
Director of Photography
A young female limo driver meets a young male hooker who says he just accidentally killed his "John". They drive around the city looking for the client's girlfriend with the hooker in the trunk.
Redline
Director of Photography
A gorgeous young automobile fanatic--and front to the hottest unsigned band on the West coast--finds herself caught up in illegal drag-racing competitions organized by exotic car fanatics
The Plague
Director of Photography
Ten years have passed since the world's children fell into a coma. Tonight they're waking up and all hell is breaking loose. An unholy battle between the generations is being waged, and time is not on the side of adults.
Cinematographer Style
Self
110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do.
Funny Money
Director of Photography
Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man, to find out that there's a million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well as he does. Soon they're joined by their best friends, a cop on the take, a cop on the hunt, and the dreaded Mr. Big, who has come to claim his money.
フレイルティー 妄執
Director of Photography
A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed 'demons'.
Hendrix
Director of Photography
Biography of rock star Jimi Hendrix chronicles his early career, including a stint with Little Richard who fired him for getting too flamboyant, to his tragic early death.
Don King: Only in America
Director of Photography
A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.
Deceiver
Director of Photography
The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.
アナコンダ
Director of Photography
伝説のインディオ、シリシャマ族を求めて南米アマゾンに来た映画作家のテリーら撮影隊は、シリシャマ族を探している途中で遭難していた密猟者・サローンを助ける。最初は温厚な態度をとっていたサローンだったが、巨大蛇アナコンダが現れるや否や本性を曝け出し、アナコンダ捕獲の目的遂行の為にテリー達を支配してしまう。テリー達はサローンとオオアナコンダの脅威から逃げ延びることは出来るのか…。
Flipper
Director of Photography
Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes everything about his new environment until a new friend comes into his life, a dolphin named Flipper, that brings uncle and nephew together and leads Sandy on the summer adventure of a lifetime.
The Making of 'Jaws'
Self
A documentary on the making of one of the greatest films ever made, filled with trivia, interviews from cast and crew and never-before-seen footage.
ベートーベン2
Director of Photography
4歳に成長したベートーベンと愛するミッシーの間に4匹の子犬が生まれる。ミッシーの意地悪な飼い主から家族を守るために、ベートーベンは大活躍! 大ヒットした動物コメディのシリーズ第2弾。
Cop and ½
Director of Photography
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the bad guys to justice.
山猫は眠らない
Director of Photography
米軍の狙撃手ベケットは国防総省からの特命を受け、パナマの麻薬組織に君臨するボス、オチョアとその援助の恩恵を得ている反政府分子アルバレス将軍を暗殺すべく、若きエリート軍人リチャードとともにパナマの密林に潜入する。だが、ベケットがオチョアの狙撃に成功する一方、リチャードは経験不足もあってアルバレス暗殺に失敗し、作戦は困難を極めるという展開に。ベケットは今度こそアルバレスを暗殺しようと挑む。
Visions of Light
Self
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes: the DP tells people where to look; changes in movies (the arrival of sound, color, and wide screens) required creative responses from DPs; and, these artisans constantly invent new equipment and try new things, with wonderful results. The narration takes us through the identifiable studio styles of the 30s, the emergence of noir, the New York look, and the impact of Europeans. Citizen Kane, The Conformist, and Gordon Willis get special attention.
ホット・ショット
Director of Photography
20年前、バズとメイルマンの乗る戦闘機がバズの無謀な操縦で故障しバズは脱出したがメイルマンの脱出装置が作動しなかった。 そして現代。バズの息子ショーンは海軍の優秀なパイロットだったが、父親に対する負い目と度重なる軍規違反で除隊処分となり、とあるネイティブアメリカンの部落で静かに暮らしていた。ある日、海軍の使者が現れ、重要作戦の為に軍への復帰を求められて戻ったが、そこには一癖も二癖もある連中ばかりいた。
Graffiti Bridge
Director of Photography
It's got that Purple Rain feeling through and though. And it's got The Kid, too! For the first time since Purple Rain, Prince is back as The Kid. And where he goes , there's music! With Thieves in the Temple, New Power Generation, Elephants and Flowers and more red-hot Prince tunes from the Platinum-selling Graffiti Bridge soundtrack. What time is it? Party time! Morris Day and the Time play Release It, Shake! and more. And you'll also see and hear George Clinton, Tevin Campbell, Robin Power, Mavis Staples and other hot performers, too. Graffiti Bridge is where the movie meets the music. Cross over on it now.
When We Were Young
Director of Photography
Prospective series pilot about eight 1959 high school graduates in a Northern California town preparing to go off into the world.
チャイルド・プレイ
Director of Photography
シカゴを震撼させていた連続殺人鬼チャールズ・リー・レイは警察に追い詰められ、近くの玩具店へ逃げ込む。そこで彼は刑事に撃たれ、そばにあった人形に呪いの言葉を唱えながら絶命する。数日後、6歳の誕生日を迎えた少年アンディは、母カレンからおしゃべりするチャッキー人形をプレゼントされるが、その人形こそ、チャールズの魂が乗り移った呪いの人形だった。やがてアンディとカレンの周囲では奇怪な事件が起こりだした。
Wildfire
Director of Photography
Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, Dave foolishly attempted to rob a bank with a water pistol, and ended up in jail for eight years. Meanwhile Kay was sent to foster parents, where she met the successful business man Mike, whom she married and bore two kids. Now Frank is released from prison and immediately starts wooing Kay again. Although she's happy with Mike, she can't withdraw herself completely. Old memories and her husband's jealousy make her spend more and more time with him.
Biloxi Blues
Director of Photography
Eugene, an aspiring writer from Brooklyn, is drafted into the US Army during the final months of World War II. For his basic training, the Army sends him to Camp Shelby in Mississippi, where toil, bad food, and antisemitic jibes await. Eugene takes refuge in his sense of humor and in his diary, but they won't protect him in a battle of wills with an unstable drill sergeant.
Bates Motel
Director of Photography
Alex West is a man who roomed with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After Bates' death, Alex finds that he is in Norman's will as the inheritor of the Bates Motel, which has been vacant since Norman's arrest. Alex travels to Bates' California hometown and with a little help from a teenage runaway, Willie, Alex struggles to re-open the motel for business, only to have strange things happen. Is someone trying to drive him away, or is the motel really haunted by the ghost of Norman's mother?
Big Trouble
Director of Photography
Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making things any easier. Blanche Rickey is also worried about money; her husband is a millionaire with a weak heart, and she worries that he'll blow through all his cash before he finally dies. When Blanche meets Leonard, she devises a murderous plan that she claims will fix both their problems.
ロッキー4/炎の友情
Director of Photography
徹底した科学トレーニングで作り上げられたソ連最強のボクサー、ドラゴが訪米。そのトレーナーである妻ルドミラは挑発的な発言を繰り返し、刺激を受けた元チャンピオンのアポロはロッキーをセコンドにエキシビションマッチに臨む。だが、恐るべき破壊力を持ったドラゴのパンチを受け、アポロはリング上で絶命してしまう。親友の死を目の当たりにしたロッキーは仇討ちを誓い、タイトルを返上して敵地モスクワへと乗り込む。
Beer
Director of Photography
An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who inadvertently prevent a robbery at a bar.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Director of Photography
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together...
The Sting II
Director of Photography
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.
ニムの秘密
Director of Photography
野ネズミのミセス・ブリスビーは、子供たちとともに牧場に暮らしていたが、種まきの時期が近付いたため引っ越しを考えていた。ところが息子のティモシーが肺炎になり、最低3週間は安静が必要になると診断される。しかし、人間たちが種まきをはじめたため、困ったミセス・ブリスビーが大フクロウと、カラスのジェレミーに相談したところ、薔薇の茂みの下に暮らす、あるクマネズミの集落を訪れ、そこに暮らすニコデムスに聞いてみてはどうかと尋ねてみた。その集落は、ミセス・ブリスビーの夫であるジョナサン・ブリスビーやその知人である医者ミスター・エイジスの故郷でもあったが、同時に国立保健医学研究所で実験を受けたネズミたちの集落でもあった。
ロッキー3
Director of Photography
ヘビー級王座についたロッキーは連戦連勝を重ね、愛する家族と幸福の絶頂へ。引退を考えだした矢先、新たな挑戦者クラバーが現われる。野獣のような闘志を持つクラバーを恐れる老トレーナーのミッキーは、ロッキーに対戦をやめるように進言するが、挑発に乗った彼は聞く耳を持たない。心労が重なるミッキーは試合前日、ついに心臓発作を起こして倒れてしまう。不安を抱えてリングに上がったロッキーは、無残に敗北してしまう。
Killing at Hell's Gate
Director of Photography
A whitewater rafting party is terrorized by a group of loggers who, after accidentally killing one of the rafters in a drunken session of target practice, decide to eliminate the rest of the witnesses.
パラダイス・アーミー
Director of Photography
John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
Director of Photography
An aspiring country singer (Dennis Quaid) and his feisty younger sister/manager (Kristy McNichol) struggle to reach their dreams of Nashville stardom-as long as she can keep her brother out of trouble with the ladies and the law-in this drama "inspired by," but not really connected to, the hit '70s ballad. Mark Hamill and Don Stroud also star.
Death Ray 2000
Director of Photography
A flamboyant secret agent from UNIT, a secret counterespionage group, teams with a lady spy to retrieve a stolen device capable of destroying the world from the clutches of a sinister munitions magnate. Pilot film for the television series "A Man Called Sloane" (1979).
It's My Turn
Director of Photography
A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend, between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration.
Can't Stop the Music
Director of Photography
A loose biography of seminal disco hit-makers The Village People and their composer Jacques Morali.
ロッキー2
Director of Photography
アポロとの死闘で判定負けしたロッキーは、危険なボクシングから足を洗い、恋人エイドリアンと結婚。正業に就いて家庭を築こうとするが、ボクシング一筋に生きてきた彼はどんな仕事をしてもうまくいかない。一方、無名のロッキーをKOできなかったアポロはチャンピオンとしてのプライドを打ち砕かれ、評価も人気も失っていた。復讐に燃えるアポロはマスコミを使ってロッキーを挑発、再戦のリングに引きずり上げようと画策する。
Ice Castles
Director of Photography
A young girl is on top of the world until a tragic accident dashes her hopes and dreams of becoming a world-class figure skater. Only with the help of those who love her can she prove to the world — and herself — that she still has the potential to realize her dreams.
グリース
Director of Photography
1959年9月。ライデル高校の不良少年グループ《T・バーズ》のリーダーであるダニーは3年生になるが、夏休みにバカンスに行った先で恋に落ちた少女、サンディと突然再会して驚く。彼女は父親の転勤で、ダニーの高校に転校してきたのだ。仲間たちの手前、はしゃぎすぎないよう心がけるが、サンディといられることを内心喜ぶダニー。2人は時に気持ちがすれ違いケンカすることもあるが、新たに恋を育んでいく。
オーメン2/ダミアン
Director of Photography
ダミアンは彼の養父母の死後、ロバート・ソーンの弟リチャード夫妻に引き取られ養子として暮らしていた。 ダミアンはリチャードの子マークと共に陸軍士官学校へ通い始める。ダミアンの正体を探る神父ブーゲン ハーゲンよりダミアンの正体を知ったリチャードの伯母はダミアン殺害を謀るが惨たらしく事故死してしまう。 この頃から再びダミアン以外のソーン一族が変死しはじめるのだった。ダミアン自身も自分の周りで起こる怪異や 自分に備わっていく不思議な力に戸惑い悩んでいくが、行く先々で彼に尊敬の念を持つ狂信的な人々に支えられ て行く。ダミアンを引き取ってから周りで起こる怪異に、伯母がかつて言っていたダミアンのばかげた正体 に確信を得るためブーゲンハーゲン神父を尋ねるリチャードだったが神父は既に亡くなっており彼の遺品を 調べていくなかで恐ろしいダミアンの正体を信じることとなってしまう。
カプリコン・1
Director of Photography
人類初の有人火星探査となる宇宙船カプリコン1号が打ち上げられることになった。しかしその打ち上げ数分前、三人の乗組員のブルーベイカー、ウィリス、ウォーカーは管制スタッフや見物客などに見つからぬように船内から連れ出され、砂漠の真ん中にある無人の古い基地へと連れていかれる。ロケットが無人のまま打ち上げられているとき、三人には本計画の責任者であるケラウェイ博士から、事情の説明と新たな指令がくだされる。
Demon Seed
Director of Photography
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
特攻サンダーボルト作戦
Director of Photography
1976年6月27日、テルアビブ発パリ行きのエール・フランス機139便が、アテネ空港出発30分後にハイジャックされた。乗客は245人。飛行機はリビアを経由して、ウガンダのエンテベに着陸。イスラエル人(ユダヤ人)以外の人質全員が解放され、テロリストたちは世界各国に拘留されているゲリラの釈放を要求する。要求のタイムリミットは7月4日午前11時。イスラエルのラビン首相はショムロン准将を司令官に精鋭部隊を組織。決死の救出作戦を展開する・・・。
Alex & the Gypsy
Director of Photography
A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.
The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
Director of Photography
Tired of the slave-like treatment of his team's owner, charismatic star Negro League pitcher Bingo Long takes to the road with his band of barnstormers through the small towns of the Midwest in the 1930s.
Lipstick
Director of Photography
An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.
ジョーズ
Director of Photography
米国ニュー・イングランド地方、アミティの小さな海水浴場でひとりの少女が鮫に襲われ、命を落とす事故が。警察署長のブロディは次なる犠牲者が出ぬよう、遊泳禁止を決定しようとするが、海水浴客がいなくなって町が不況に陥ることを恐れた市長の反対で失敗に。すると、今度は少年が犠牲になってしまう。ブロディは意を決して鮫を退治しようと、海洋学者フーパーや鮫狩りの専門家クイントとボートに乗り込み、海に出る。
Hustling
Director of Photography
Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.
Target Risk
Director of Photography
A professional courier's girlfriend is abducted, and the kidnappers threaten to kill her unless the courier helps them fake a diamond robbery.
Vampira
Editor
In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from several beautiful models, but during the transfusion, Vampira's race turns from white to black.
カンバセーション…盗聴…
Director of Photography
カンヌ映画祭グランプリに輝いたコッポラの意欲作。プロの盗聴屋が次々と他人のプライバシーを侵し、盗聴を繰り返す作業を克明に描いていく。しかし、やがて“自分も盗聴されている”という脅迫観念に陥った主人公は、孤独と狂気の日々に没入していく・・・。大都会に住む現代人の不安感を象徴的に描いた作品。 サンフランシスコで盗聴を職業としているハリーは、依頼を受け、公園を歩くカップルの会話を盗聴する。ハリーは盗聴した会話に「殺される」ということばを聞き取り、やがて事件に巻き込まれていく…。
兵士スロビクの銃殺
Director of Photography
The story of Eddie Slovik, who was executed by the Army in 1945, the only American soldier to be executed for desertion since the Civil War.
Sunshine
Director of Photography
A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left so her daughter will know something of her when she grows up.
Deliver Us from Evil
Director of Photography
Several men hiking in the mountains discover an injured skyjacker who parachuted from a plane with $600,000. They kill him, then start fighting each other over the money.
Savage
Director of Photography
A TV reporter investigates compromising photographs of a nominee to the Supreme Court.
Hickey & Boggs
Director of Photography
Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
Deliverance
Second Unit Director of Photography
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Deathmaster
Director of Photography
Quarry is a mysterious stranger with cult like following of hippies. Rather than showing them peace and love, he has more sinister plans for them as he is a vampire.
Melinda
Director of Photography
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
Something Evil
Director of Photography
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
The Return of Count Yorga
Director of Photography
Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.
Drive, He Said
Director of Photography
Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.
A Clear and Present Danger
Director of Photography
The son of a U.S. Senator takes on the cause of clean air when a friend dies of emphysema.
The Rain People
Director of Photography
When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
Fearless Frank
Director of Photography
A country boy arrives in Chicago, gets killed by some gangsters, and returns to life with superhuman powers in this satirical look at movie genres.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Sound Editor
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
The People vs. Paul Crump
Director of Photography
An impassioned plea for the release of a young man sentenced to die in an Illinois prison.