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Sam James(IV)

  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • Cinematographer
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Sam James is known for We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993), Sons of Ecstasy (2025) and In Memoriam (2002).
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    Known for

    John Goodman, Jay Leno, Charles Fleischer, Felicity Kendal, René Le Vant, Kenneth Mars, Yeardley Smith, and Joey Shea in We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
    We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
    6.0
    • Camera and Electrical Department
    • 1993
    Sons of Ecstasy (2025)
    Sons of Ecstasy
    5.6
    • Camera and Electrical Department
    • 2025
    Keith Barron in In Memoriam (2002)
    In Memoriam
    6.5
    Short
    • Second Unit or Assistant Director
    • 2002
    Home Road Movies (2002)
    Home Road Movies
    7.1
    Short
    • Cinematographer
    • 2002

    Credits

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    Camera and Electrical Department

    • Sons of Ecstasy (2025)
      Sons of Ecstasy
      5.6
      • assistant camera
      • 2025
    • Timmy Time (2009)
      Timmy Time
      6.7
      TV Series
      • lighting design
      • 2009–2011
    • Back to School (2011)
      Back to School
      Video
      • original lighting by (segment "Pingu - Pingu and the Rubberband Plane")
      • 2011
    • Jeff Ayers, Martin Clunes, Maria Darling, Julie Johnson, Marc Silk, Justin Fletcher, Carey Stinson, Dean Wendt, Martin T. Sherman, Charlotte Spencer, and Andrew Hodwitz in Sweet Dreams (2011)
      Sweet Dreams
      Video
      • lighting design (segment "Timmy Time - Sweet Dreams Timmy")
      • 2011
    • Bob the Builder (1997)
      Bob the Builder
      5.6
      TV Series
      • lighting camera
      • camera
      • 2002–2008
    • Lachele Carl, Neil Morrissey, Greg Proops, and Rob Rackstraw in Bob the Builder: Built to Be Wild (2006)
      Bob the Builder: Built to Be Wild
      6.7
      Video
      • lighting camera
      • 2006
    • Children's Christmas Collection (2006)
      Children's Christmas Collection
      Video
      • lighting camerawoman (segment "Titch - The Christmas Tree")
      • 2006
    • Pingu (1980)
      Pingu
      7.4
      TV Series
      • original lighting designer
      • original lighting
      • original lighting by
      • 2004–2006
    • Marcello Magni and David Sant in Pingu (1980)
      Pingu the Snowboarder
      Video
      • original lighting by (segments "Pingu's Ice Sculpture", "Pinga's Balloon", "Pingu and the Knitting Machine", "Pingu's Balancing Act", "Pingu Gets Lost")
      • 2004
    • Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot (2003)
      Bob the Builder: The Knights of Fix-A-Lot
      7.2
      TV Movie
      • lighting camera
      • 2003
    • Faeries (1999)
      Faeries
      5.4
      • director of photography: 3D sets
      • 1999
    • Titch (1997)
      Titch
      7.1
      TV Series
      • lighting camerawoman
      • 1997
    • The Wind in the Willows (1995)
      The Wind in the Willows
      7.4
      TV Movie
      • camera operator
      • 1995
    • Peter Hawkins and Peter Sallis in Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)
      Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave
      8.1
      Short
      • camera operator
      • 1995
    • John Goodman, Jay Leno, Charles Fleischer, Felicity Kendal, René Le Vant, Kenneth Mars, Yeardley Smith, and Joey Shea in We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
      We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
      6.0
      • junior camera operator
      • 1993

    Cinematographer

    • Maria Darling, John Gordon Sinclair, and Sean Hughes in Rubbadubbers (2003)
      Rubbadubbers
      6.6
      TV Series
      • director of photography
      • 2005
    • Pingu (1980)
      Pingu
      7.4
      TV Series
      • director of photography
      • 2003–2004
    • Marcello Magni and David Sant in Pingu (1980)
      Pingu the Snowboarder
      Video
      • director of photography (segments "Pingu the Snowboarder", "Pinga Has Hiccups", "Like Father Like Pingu", "Pingu and Pinga Go Camping")
      • 2004
    • The Lucky Dip (2002)
      The Lucky Dip
      7.0
      Short
      • Cinematographer
      • 2002
    • Bob the Builder (1997)
      Bob the Builder
      5.6
      TV Series
      • director of photography
      • 2002
    • Home Road Movies (2002)
      Home Road Movies
      7.1
      Short
      • director of photography
      • 2002
    • The Final Communiqué
      Short
      • Cinematographer
      • 1997

    Second Unit or Assistant Director

    • Keith Barron in In Memoriam (2002)
      In Memoriam
      6.5
      Short
      • second assistant director
      • 2002

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