James Signorelli

American director and cinematographer
James Signorelli
Born
US
Occupation(s)Film director, cinematographer

James Signorelli is an American film director and cinematographer.[1] He was the film segment producer for more than 400 episodes of Saturday Night Live from 1976 until 2011.[2] He has produced many of the commercial parodies for which the show is noted.

Selected filmography

  • Super Fly (1972) (director of photography)
  • Black Caesar (1973) (directory of photography, Harlem sequence)
  • Saturday Night Live (1976-2011) (film producer)
  • The Concert in Central Park, concert film of Simon & Garfunkel (1982) (producer only)
  • Easy Money (1983)
  • Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
  • Chance M. Romero's New Mistress of the Dark (2003) (film producer/himself)
  • January the 13th (2022) (film producer)

References

  1. ^ The New York Times
  2. ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Creating Saturday Night Live: Makeup. YouTube.
  • James Signorelli at IMDb
  • Signorelli guest lecturing at the New York Film Academy
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  • Seasons 1−30
  • Season 31−present
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