Michael Ballhaus

from Berlin, Germany

Artwork for Boogie NightsImage of Michael Ballhaus

Biography

Michael Ballhaus (1935-2017) was a German cinematographer, known mostly for his work with influential directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Redford, Frank Oz, James L. Brooks, Barry Levinson, and his most common collaborator, Martin Scorsese. Ballhaus is widely admired as a key force behind Scorsese’s films during the 1980s and 1990s, most notably “Goodfellas.” Michael’s son, Florian, is also a cinematographer, known for “The Devil Wears Prada.”

Timeline

2017Aged 82

  • Poster for Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

    Self

2013Aged 78

  • Poster for 3096 Days

    Director of Photography

2012Aged 77

  • Poster for Side by Side

    Self

2011Aged 76

  • Poster for The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited

    Self

2010Aged 75

  • Poster for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire: Looking Ahead to Today

    Self

2009Aged 74

  • Poster for In Berlin

    Editor

  • Poster for Max Raabe: Heute Nacht Oder Nie - Live in Berlin

    Director

2008Aged 73

2006Aged 71

  • Poster for Cinematographer Style

    Self

  • Poster for The Departed

    Director of Photography

2005Aged 70

2004Aged 69

  • Poster for Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'

    Self

2003Aged 68

  • Poster for Uptown Girls

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Something's Gotta Give

    Director of Photography

2002Aged 67

2000Aged 65

  • Poster for Fassbinder's Women

    Self

  • Poster for What Planet Are You From?

    Director of Photography

  • Gone Underground

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Legend of Bagger Vance

    Director of Photography

1999Aged 64

  • Poster for The Thirteenth Floor

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Wild Wild West

    Director of Photography

1998Aged 63

  • Poster for Primary Colors

    Director of Photography

1997Aged 62

  • Poster for Boogie Nights

    Cameraman (uncredited)

  • Poster for Air Force One

    Director of Photography

1996Aged 61

  • Poster for Sleepers

    Director of Photography

1995Aged 60

  • Poster for Outbreak

    Director of Photography

1994Aged 59

  • Poster for I'll Do Anything

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Quiz Show

    Director of Photography

1993Aged 58

  • Poster for Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'

    Self

  • Poster for The Age of Innocence

    Director of Photography

1992Aged 57

  • Poster for I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

    Self

  • Poster for Visions of Light

    Self

  • Poster for Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man, The Myth, The Movies

    Self

  • Poster for The Mambo Kings

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Bram Stoker's Dracula

    Director of Photography

1991Aged 56

  • Poster for Guilty by Suspicion

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for What About Bob?

    Director of Photography

1990Aged 55

  • Poster for Martin Scorsese Directs

    Self

  • Poster for GoodFellas

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Postcards from the Edge

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Madonna: The Immaculate Collection

    Director of Photography

1989Aged 54

  • Poster for The Fabulous Baker Boys

    Director of Photography

1988Aged 53

  • Poster for Baja Oklahoma

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The House on Carroll Street

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Last Temptation of Christ

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Working Girl

    Director of Photography

1987Aged 52

1986Aged 51

  • Poster for Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

    Self - The Director of Photography

  • Poster for Under the Cherry Moon

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Color of Money

    Director of Photography

1985Aged 50

  • Poster for Death of a Salesman

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for After Hours

    Director of Photography

1984Aged 49

  • Poster for Reckless

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Autograph

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Old Enough

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Heartbreakers

    Director of Photography

1983Aged 48

  • Poster for Sheer Madness

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Baby It's You

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Edith's Diary

    Director of Photography

1982Aged 47

  • Poster for The Magic Mountain

    Director of Photography

  • Der Auslöser

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Dear Mr. Wonderful

    Director of Photography

1981Aged 46

1980Aged 45

1979Aged 44

1978Aged 43

1977Aged 42

1976Aged 41

  • Poster for Satan’s Brew

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Summer Guests

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for I Only Want You to Love Me

    Director of Photography

  • Dorothea Merz

    Director of Photography

1975Aged 40

  • Poster for Fox and His Friends

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Cold Blood

    Director of Photography

1974Aged 39

  • Poster for Martha

    Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

  • Poster for Made in Germany and USA

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for From the Family of Reptiles

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Island

    Director of Photography

1973Aged 38

  • Poster for Chetan, Indian Boy

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Sinful Bed

    Director of Photography

1972Aged 37

  • Der Held

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Adele Spitzeder

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

    Director of Photography

1971Aged 36

1970Aged 35

  • Poster for We Two

    Director of Photography

1969Aged 34

  • Poster for Several Times Daily

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for Your Caresses

    Director of Photography

  • Der Kidnapper

    Director of Photography

1968Aged 33

1966Aged 31

1964Aged 29

1961Aged 26

1955Aged 20

  • Poster for Lola Montès

    Still Photographer

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