Known For
Camera
Born
Apr 10, 1952
Place of Birth
Santiago, Chile
Credits
73 titles
Alexander Witt
Biography
Alexander B. Witt (born 1952) is a Chilean Hollywood filmmaker who has worked mostly as a camera operator and second unit director. His feature directorial debut came in 2004 with Resident Evil: Apocalypse, based on the popular Capcom video game series. Witt also became the 2nd unit director on the James Bond movie Casino Royale in 2006. From a 2004 interview on IGN, he says this about his history: "I was born in Chile, the third generation of Germans there. And, we moved to Mexico, from Mexico in '73 I moved to Europe, where I started working in film. I started with Arriflex, the company that makes the cameras. I was there for a year and I did kind of a trainee type of year where I was in the sound department, in the lab, in the studio working with the actual productions and also assembling cameras. And then I moved to Europe, where I lived three years, and then, back in '76, I did my first movie as a camera assistant, which was 21 Hours at Munich. And then, I kept on going, I moved up to focus puller or first AC, and then operating and then DP-ing. And then I was DP-ing commercials and then I started directing commercials in the late 80's and beginning of [the] 90's. I was working with Jan and doing his second unit as a DP while he was a DP He is the one that really gave me the break on Speed 1 to start directing second unit." Description above from the Wikipedia article Alexander Witt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Sayen: The Huntress
Director
Ferrari
Second Unit Director
Sayen: Desert Road
Director
Fast X
Second Unit Director
Sayen
Director
No Time to Die
Second Unit Director
Jungle Cruise
Second Unit Director
Bird Box
Second Unit Director
Avengers: Infinity War
Second Unit Director
First They Killed My Father
Second Unit Director of Photography
Spectre
Second Unit Director
Terminator Genisys
Second Unit Director
Cinderella
Second Unit Director
Kick
Director of Photography
Hercules
Second Unit Director
Skyfall
Second Unit Director
Safe House
Second Unit Director of Photography
X-Men: First Class
Second Unit Director
Fast Five
Second Unit Director
The Town
Second Unit Director of Photography
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Second Unit Director of Photography
Robin Hood
Second Unit Director of Photography
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Second Unit Director of Photography
James Bond in the Bahamas
Body of Lies
Director of Photography
Fool's Gold
Second Unit Director
Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse
Self
American Gangster
Second Unit Director
James Bond: For Real
Self
Casino Royale
Second Unit Director of Photography
She's the Man
Second Unit Director
Æon Flux
Second Unit Director
Game Over: Resident Evil Reanimated
Self
Undead Boot Camp
Self
Game Babes
Self
Corporate Malfeasance
Self
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Umbrella Sniper (uncredited)
Hidalgo
Second Unit Director
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Second Unit Director
The Italian Job
Second Unit Director
Daredevil
Second Unit Director
xXx
Second Unit Director
The Bourne Identity
Second Unit Director
Black Hawk Down
Second Unit Director
Hannibal
Second Unit Director
Remember the Titans
Second Unit Director of Photography
Gladiator
Second Unit Director
Inspector Gadget
Wet, Green Businessman
Forces of Nature
Second Unit Director
The Postman
Second Unit Director