Newton Thomas Sigel

Newton Thomas Sigel, is an American cinematographer, best known for his collaboration with director Bryan Singer.

Early life

Sigel was born in Detroit, Michigan, and studied painting in New York City, becoming an artist-in-residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

He began his career working with experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger as a camera operator.
Becoming a documentary filmmaker, he shot a number of projects, including El Salvador: Another Vietnam, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His photography caught the attention of DP Haskell Wexler, and the two spent several years developing what would become the 1985 film Latino, his first feature film as director of photography.
Sigel worked mostly on television films and as a second unit DP throughout the 1980s. He regularly served under Robert Richardson on films like Platoon and The Doors.
Starting with The Usual Suspects in 1995, Sigel become the regular cinematographer of director Bryan Singer until 2018.

Sigel is Jewish and married to Lisa Chang.
His father, Irving Sigel, was a psychologist who worked for the Educational Testing Service. His mother, Roberta Sigel, was a professor at Rutgers who studied gender and politics.

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TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1987	Home Fires	Michael Toshiyuki Uno	With Rick F. Gunter
1987	Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Pat Hobby Teamed with Genius	Rob Thompson
1987	Tales from the Hollywood Hills: A Table at Ciro's	Leon Ichaso
1988	Perfect People	Bruce Seth Green
1989	Roe vs. Wade	Gregory Hoblit
1990	Rock Hudson	John Nicolella
1990	Challenger	Glenn Jordan
1990	Turner & Hooch	Donald Petrie	TV pilot
1990	Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter	Percy Adlon	Segment "So In Love"
1990	A Promise to Keep	Rod Holcomb
1991	Murder in High Places	John Byrum
1993	Daybreak	Stephen Tolkin
1994	A Time to Heal	Michael Toshiyuki Uno

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1987	Great Performances	Paul Bogart	Episode "Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson"
1988	The Wonder Years	Steve Miner Carol Black Neal Marlens Jeffrey D. Brown	3 episodes
1999	Cop Rock	Gregory Hoblit	Episode "Pilot"
2004	House	Bryan Singer	Episode "Pilot"
2015	Battle Creek	Bryan Singer	Episode: "The Battle Creek Way"
2017	The Gifted	Bryan Singer	Episode "eXposed"
2023	Citadel	Himself Jessica Yu	6 episodes

Documentary film

Year	Title	Notes
1981	Resurgence: The Movement for Equality vs. the Ku Klux Klan	Co-directed with Pamela Yates
1983	When the Mountains Tremble	Co-directed with Pamela Yates

TV moviePoint of Origin
TV series

Year	Title	Notes
2004-2006	House	Episodes "Maternity" and "Lines in the Sand"
2023	Citadel	6 episodes