A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Born:
December 12, 1946
Peter Smokler is an American cinematographer. Born in Detroit, he's best known for his work on television shows such as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005-) and The Larry Sanders Show (1992-1998). He's also known for being the director of photography on Rob Reiner's cult film This Is Spinal Tap (1982).
Assistant Camera:
1974 Dirty O'Neil
Camera Operator:
1974 Dirty O'Neil
2003 Jimi Plays Berkeley
Director of Photography:
1971 Punishment Park
1974 Dirty O'Neil
1980 Today Is For The Championship
1981 The Killing of America
1984 This Is Spinal Tap
1989 Back to the Future (Part II): Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation
1990 Camp Cucamonga
1991 Problem Child 2
1993 Bethie's Really Silly Clubhouse
1995 Problem Child 3
2000 The Last Real Cowboys
2003 Jimi Plays Berkeley
2009 A Very Sunny Christmas
Second Unit Director of Photography:
1971 Punishment Park
1974 Dirty O'Neil
1980 Alligator
1980 Today Is For The Championship
1981 The Killing of America
1984 This Is Spinal Tap
1989 Back to the Future (Part II): Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation
1990 Camp Cucamonga
1991 Problem Child 2
1993 Bethie's Really Silly Clubhouse
1995 Problem Child 3
2000 The Last Real Cowboys
2003 Jimi Plays Berkeley
2009 A Very Sunny Christmas
Director of Photography:
1987 Tour of Duty
1998 Sports Night
2002 George Lopez
2005 It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005 The Office
2009 Parks and Recreation
2012 Anger Management
2016 Kevin Can Wait
2017 Disjointed
2019 Mr. Iglesias
2020 Broke
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.