Roy H. Wagner


Roy Henry Wagner III is an American cinematographer known for dramatic, dark imagery. Named by Kodak as one of the "Top 100 Directors of Photography in the World" Wagner's career has spanned 35 years in the motion picture and television industries. He has also received the ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for a Miniseries, and is a two-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee.
Wagner is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the American Society of Cinematographers and has won the Producers Guild "Vision Award". He studied with Ansel Adams who taught him to rise to the challenge of new technology. Wagner is extremely active within the American Society of Cinematographers, and contributes much of his free time furthering the charter of the organization.

Filmography

Film' Pray for Death Witchboard Return to Horror High Nightforce A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors Another Stakeout
Direct-to-videoK-9: P.I. Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation Streets of Blood Blood and Bone
TV series
YearTitleNotes
1987Beauty and the Beast5 episodes
Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Series
Nominated for ASC Award Outstanding Cinematography in Regular Series
1987-88Houston Knights13 episodes
1989Quantum Leap6 episodes
Won Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Series
1989-90Christine Cromwell4 episodes
1990Cop Rock10 episodes
1991The Antagonists1 episodes
1991Under Cover3 episodes
1992Mann & Machine9 episodes
19922000 Malibu Road5 episodes
1994-96Party of Five43 episodes
1997Gun3 episodes
1997-99Cracker
1998-99Fantasy Island10 episodes
1999-2000Get Real22 episodes
2000-01CSI: Crime Scene Investigation9 episodes
2001Pasadena9 episodes
2002Push, Nevada7 episodes
2005-06House36 episodes
2007Burn Notice12 episodes
2007Kidnapped7 episodes
2009The Beast12 episodes
2009The Unusuals10 episodes
2009-10Make It or Break It19 episodes
2013Elementary12 episodes
2016Ray Donovan2 episodes

TV movies'
YearTitleNotes
1988Disaster at Silo 7Nominated for Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries
1989Nasty Boys
1992Drug Wars: The Cocaine CartelNominated for ASC Award for Outstanding Cinematography in a Special
1993Hart to Hart Returns
1999In the Company of Spies
2003Coyote Waits
2004A Thief of Time
2007The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning
2012A Smile as Big as the Moon
2012Blue Lagoon: The Awakening''

Miscellaneous credits

Quotes

  • "I...would like to take the curse off of technology. There is no reason why any director should fear new ideas or technologies that might significantly contribute to their ability to tell stories."