A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Michael A. Benson
Michael Alan Benson
Michael Benson
"A" Camera Operator:
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Additional Camera:
1979 Over the Edge
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Additional Photography:
1979 Over the Edge
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1999 The Bone Collector
Assistant Camera:
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1979 Over the Edge
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1999 The Bone Collector
Camera Operator:
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1977 The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1979 Over the Edge
1979 The Amityville Horror
1979 The Champ
1985 Love Lives On
1985 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1985 Vision Quest
1987 Beverly Hills Cop II
1987 No Way Out
1987 White Water Summer
1988 Alien Nation
1989 The Karate Kid Part III
1990 3 Men and a Little Lady
1990 Ghost
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 White Fang
1992 Sister Act
1992 White Men Can't Jump
1999 The Bone Collector
Director of Photography:
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1977 The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1979 Over the Edge
1979 The Amityville Horror
1979 The Champ
1985 Love Lives On
1985 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1985 Vision Quest
1987 Beverly Hills Cop II
1987 No Way Out
1987 White Water Summer
1988 Alien Nation
1989 The Karate Kid Part III
1990 3 Men and a Little Lady
1990 Ghost
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 White Fang
1992 Sister Act
1992 White Men Can't Jump
1999 The Bone Collector
1999 Universal Soldier: The Return
Drone Operator:
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1977 The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1979 Over the Edge
1979 The Amityville Horror
1979 The Champ
1985 Love Lives On
1985 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1985 Vision Quest
1987 Beverly Hills Cop II
1987 No Way Out
1987 White Water Summer
1988 Alien Nation
1989 The Karate Kid Part III
1990 3 Men and a Little Lady
1990 Ghost
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 White Fang
1992 Sister Act
1992 White Men Can't Jump
1999 The Bone Collector
1999 Universal Soldier: The Return
2015 I Pity the Tool
Second Unit Director of Photography:
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride!
1977 The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1979 Over the Edge
1979 The Amityville Horror
1979 The Champ
1985 Love Lives On
1985 Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1985 Vision Quest
1987 Beverly Hills Cop II
1987 No Way Out
1987 White Water Summer
1988 Alien Nation
1989 The Karate Kid Part III
1990 3 Men and a Little Lady
1990 Ghost
1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 White Fang
1992 Sister Act
1992 Whispers in the Dark
1992 White Men Can't Jump
1993 Beethoven's 2nd
1995 Virtuosity
1996 Broken Arrow
1996 Eraser
1998 Rush Hour
1999 The Bone Collector
1999 Universal Soldier: The Return
1999 Virus
2001 The Score
2015 I Pity the Tool
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.