Mitchell Amundsen
Mitchell "Mitch" Amundsen (born May 31, 1958) is an American cinematographer. He grew up in Larkspur, Marin County (north of San Francisco). During his high school years he became interested in still photography and studied film at the Montana State University in Bozeman. There, he took classes on motion pictures, which sparked his interest in cinematography. In 1980, Mitch left the university to work for $100/week on the production of the Francis Ford Coppola film One from the Heart (1981), and his subsequent features, Rumble Fish (1983) and The Outsiders (1983), working as a production assistant. He worked his way up as a camera assistant, then a camera operator, and debuted as a cinematographer on the comedy The Country Bears (2002). Mitch has continued to amass credits as a cinematographer working on tent-poles such as Transformers (2007), Wanted (2008) and Now You See Me (2013). In 2008, he was named one of Variety's "10 Cinematographers to Watch". Mitch lives with his wife in Mammoth Lakes, CA.
Filmography (35)
The Underdoggs
Renfield
Cheaper by the Dozen
Home Sweet Home Alone
The Happytime Murders
A Bad Moms Christmas
CHiPs
Ride Along 2
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Horrible Bosses 2
Odd Thomas
Now You See Me
Red Dawn
Premium Rush
Jonah Hex
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Wanted
Transformers
Transporter 2
The Island
The Bourne Supremacy
Seabiscuit
The Country Bears
Pearl Harbor
Red Planet
EDtv
Armageddon
Conspiracy Theory
Empire Records
Bad Girls
Benny & Joon
In the Line of Fire
Bad Influence
Heathers