Roy H. Wagner: A Cinematographer’s Life Beyond the Shadows

Named by Kodak as among the ＂100 Top Cinematographers in the World,＂ Roy H. Wagner is responsible for some of the most striking and unique photography in American cinema and television of the past forty years. Mentored by legendary cinematographers of Hollywood’s Golden Age and beginning his career during the revolutionary aesthetic shifts of the New Hollywood era, Wagner has brought both a studio craftsman ethic and maverick artistic sensibility to his work that includes A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Beauty and the Beast, Quantum Leap, House M.D., among many others.

This autobiography charts Roy’s life as a young small-town Midwestern dreamer to his career as an acclaimed, award-winning Hollywood filmmaker. Together with co-author Wayne Byrne, Roy takes the reader on a candid journey behind the scenes on a selection of his most notable film and television productions, revealing some of the highs and lows of a lauded Hollywood career, and detailing his professional collaborations with fellow filmmakers and industry figures such as John Badham, Richard Franklin, Seymour Friedman, Bill Froehlich, Peter O’Fallon, William Fraker, Diane Keaton, Dennis Maguire, Harry Stradling, Patrick Swayze, Kevin Tenney and many more.

Roy H. Wagner, ASC, is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television cinematographer. Throughout the past four decades he has been the director of photography on cult independent films, major studio productions, and hit television shows such as Witchboard, Return to Horror High, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Drop Zone, Nick of Time, Another Stakeout, A Rumor of Angels, Beauty and the Beast, Quantum Leap, Cristine Cromwell, Party of Five, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, House M.D., and The Beast. Wayne Byrne is an Irish author and film historian. He has written on film and music culture for a variety of notable publications and on subjects such as Tom DiCillo, Burt Reynolds, Nick McLean, Elm Street, and Walter Hill.