Leiterman, Richard 1935–

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LEITERMAN, Richard 1935–

PERSONAL

Full name, Richard Mark Leiterman; born April 7, 1935, in Dome Mines, Ontario, Canada; son of Douglas McGregor and Moynette (maiden name, Stone) Leiterman; married Margaret June Mansell, November 10, 1960; children: Mark, Julien, Rachel. Education: Attended University of British Columbia.

Career: Cinematographer, director, producer, and actor. Windforce Productions, Ltd., member of board of directors; Sheridan College's Media Arts Program and Sheridan Centre for Animation and Emerging Technologies, educator. Previously worked as a cold–storage worker, kitchen worker, truck driver, sailor, forklift operator, concrete laborer, and tugboater.

Member: Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, International Alliance Theatrical and Stage Employees (executive board member), Canadian Society of Cinematographers.

Awards, Honors: D'Etrog Award, best cinematography, Canadian Film Award, best cinematography—feature, 1976, both for The Far Shore; Feature Film Photography Awards, 1976, 1981; Genie Award, best achievement in cinematography, Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, 1982, for Silence of a North; Yorkton (Saskatchewan) Canada Festival Award, 1984; Chicago Festival Award, 1986; Golden Sheaf Award, Yorkton Canada Festival, 1988; Genie Award nomination, best achievement in cinematography, 1988, for The Climb; Genie Award nomination, best achievement in cinema-tography, 1990, for The First Season; Kodak New Century Award, Canadian Society of Cinematographers, 2000.

CREDITS

Film Cinematographer:

The Field Day (short film), 1963.

Running Away Backwards, 1964.

High School (documentary), 1969.

A Married Couple (documentary), Aquarius Releasing, 1969.

The World of One in Five (documentary short film), 1969.

Goin' Down the Road (also known as Le voyage chimerique ), Chevron, 1970.

Rip–Off (also known as Rever en couleur and Virgin Territory ), Alliance Film Distribution, 1971.

Wedding in White (also known as Mariage en blanc ), AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1972.

Exercise Running Jump II (documentary), 1972.

Between Friends (also known as Entre amis and Get Back ), 1973.

Hamlet, 1973.

Cavendish Country (documentary short film), 1973.

Catskinner Keen (documentary short film), 1973.

Van's Camp (documentary short film), 1974.

Thunderbirds in China (documentary), National Film Board of Canada, 1974.

Recommendation for Mercy (also known as Teenage Psycho Killer ), Cinema Shares International, 1975.

Who Has Seen the Wind, Janus Films, 1977.

Wild Horse Hank, 1979.

I, Maureen, 1980.

Surfacing, Pan–Canadian Film Distributors, 1981.

Ticket to Heaven, United Artists Classics, 1981.

Silence of the North, Universal, 1981.

Utilities, Vestron Video, 1981.

(Second unit) Death Hunt, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1981.

Mother Lode (also known as Search for the Mother Lode: The Last Great Treasure ), Agamemnon Films, 1982.

Hail Columbia! (documentary short film), IMAX, 1982.

My American Cousin (also known as Mon cousin americain ), International Spectrafilm, 1985.

Rad, Columbia TriStar, 1986.

The Climb, Cintel Films, 1987.

And Then You Die, 1987.

The Squamish Five, 1988.

Watchers, MCA/Universal, 1988.

The First Season, 1989.

State Park (also known as Heavy Metal Summer ), 1990.

Cadence (also known as Count a Lonely Cadence and Stockade ), New Line Cinema, 1990.

Change of Heart, Clearwater Films, 1992.

(Second unit) Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, Twentieth Century–Fox, 1995.

Pocahontas: The Legend, 1995.

Film Work:

Associate producer, Come On Children (documentary), 1973.

Second unit camera operator and third unit camera operator, Maria Chapdelaine, 1982.

Film Appearances:

Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment, 1999.

Television Cinematographer; Series:

Scene of the Crime, CBS, 1991.

The Heights, Fox, 1992.

Television Cinematographer; Miniseries:

It (also known as Stephen King's It ), ABC, 1990.

And the Sea Will Tell, CBS, 1991.

Television Cinematographer; Movies:

He's Fired, She's Hired, CBS, 1984.

Striker's Mountain (also known as Im Reich der weissen Berge ), 1985.

Stone Fox, NBC, 1987.

Bluffing It, ABC, 1987.

Higher Ground, CBS, 1988.

The People across the Lake, NBC, 1988.

Dead Reckoning, USA Network, 1990.

Memories of Murder, Lifetime, 1990.

Blackmail, USA Network, 1991.

A Mother's Justice, NBC, 1991.

The Comrades of Summer, HBO, 1992.

To Grandmother's House We Go, ABC, 1992.

A Killer among Friends (also known as Friends to the End ), CBS, 1992.

City Boy, PBS, 1992.

Without a Kiss Goodbye (also know as Falsely Accused and The Lauri Samuels Story ), CBS, 1993.

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble, ABC, 1993.

No Child of Mine, CBS, 1993.

Witness to the Execution, NBC, 1994.

Don't Talk to Strangers (also known as Dangerous Pursuit ), USA Network, 1994.

The Disappearance of Vonnie, CBS, 1994.

How the West Was Fun, ABC, 1994.

A Christmas Romance, CBS, 1994.

Beyond Obsession, ABC, 1994.

(Second unit) Deadlocked: Escape from Zone 14, Fox, 1995.

Justice for Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie, NBC, 1996.

The Ex, HBO, 1996.

The Cold Heart of a Killer (also known as Murder on the Iditarod Trail ), CBS, 1996.

When Friendship Kills (also known as A Secret between Friends: A Moment of Truth Movie ), NBC, 1996.

She Woke Up Pregnant (also known as Crimes of Silence ), ABC, 1996.

Talk to Me, ABC, 1996.

Country Justice (also known as Family Rescue ), CBS, 1997.

Into the Arms of Danger (also known as Running Wild ), NBC, 1997.

The Right Connections, Showtime, 1997.

Alibi, ABC, 1997.

In the Doghouse, Showtime, 1998.

Crimes of Passion: Nobody Lives Forever (also known as Crimes of Passion: Edna Buchanan's Nobody Lives Forever, Edna Buchanan's Nobody Lives Forever, and Nobody Lives Forever ), ABC, 1998.

The Spree, The Movie Channel, 1998.

Cuori in campo (also known as Greener Fields and World Cup '98 ), Cinemax, 1998.

At the Mercy of a Stranger, CBS, 1999.

Different, Lifetime, 1999.

Hayley Wagner, Star, Showtime, 1999.

Epicenter, UPN, 2001.