Alexander Witt
Born: 1952-04-10 in Santiago, Chile
Known For: Camera
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.
Filmography
2024
- Sayen: The Huntress ... (Director)
2023
- Fast X ... (Second Unit Director)
- Ferrari ... (Second Unit Director)
- Sayen ... (Director)
- Sayen: Desert Road ... (Director)
2021
- No Time to Die ... (Second Unit Director)
- Jungle Cruise ... (Second Unit Director)
2018
- Avengers: Infinity War ... (Second Unit Director)
- Bird Box ... (Second Unit Director)
2017
- First They Killed My Father ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
2015
- Cinderella ... (Second Unit Director)
- Terminator Genisys ... (Second Unit Director)
- Spectre ... (Second Unit Director)
2012
- Skyfall ... (Second Unit Director)
- Safe House ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
2011
- Fast Five ... (Second Unit Director)
- X-Men: First Class ... (Second Unit Director)
2010
- The Town ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
- Robin Hood ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
- Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
2009
- The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
2008
- Fool's Gold ... (Second Unit Director)
- Body of Lies ... (Director of Photography)
- James Bond in the Bahamas
2007
- American Gangster ... (Second Unit Director)
- Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse as Self
2006
- Casino Royale ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
- She's the Man ... (Second Unit Director)
- James Bond: For Real as Self
2005
- Æon Flux ... (Second Unit Director)
2004
- Hidalgo ... (Second Unit Director)
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse as Umbrella Sniper (uncredited)
- Corporate Malfeasance as Self
- Game Babes as Self
- Game Over: Resident Evil Reanimated as Self
2003
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl ... (Second Unit Director)
- The Italian Job ... (Second Unit Director)
- Daredevil ... (Second Unit Director)
2002
- xXx ... (Second Unit Director)
- The Bourne Identity ... (Second Unit Director)
2001
- Black Hawk Down ... (Second Unit Director)
- Hannibal ... (Second Unit Director)
2000
- Gladiator ... (Second Unit Director)
- Remember the Titans ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
1999
- Inspector Gadget as Wet, Green Businessman
- Forces of Nature ... (Second Unit Director)
1997
- The Postman ... (Second Unit Director)
- Speed 2: Cruise Control ... (Second Unit Director)
1996
- Twister ... (Second Unit Director)
1995
- Money Train ... (Second Unit Director)
- Under Siege 2: Dark Territory ... (Additional Photography)
- Just Cause ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
1994
- Speed ... (Second Unit Director)
1993
- Short Cuts ... (Camera Operator)
1992
- Lethal Weapon 3 ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
- Chaplin ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
1991
- Thelma & Louise ... (Camera Operator)
1990
- The Hunt for Red October ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
1989
- Always ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
- Black Rain ... (Camera Operator)
1988
- The Boost ... (Camera Operator)
1987
- Who's That Girl ... (Camera Operator)
1986
- The Boss' Wife ... (Camera Operator)
1985
- The Jewel of the Nile ... (Second Unit Director of Photography)
1984
- Pope John Paul II ... ("B" Camera Operator)
1983
- Cujo ... (First Assistant Camera)
1982
- Slapstick of Another Kind ... (Camera Operator)
1981
- Night of Destiny ... (Director of Photography)
1979
- The Third Generation ... (Assistant Camera)