Biography
Donald E. Thorin was an American cinematographer. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he graduated from Creighton University. In 1957 he moved to Hollywood and began working at 20th Century Fox, later serving as a camera operator on films including Annie Hall (1977). His first feature as director of photography was Thief (1981).
Thorin collaborated frequently with directors including Martin Brest on Midnight Run (1988) and Scent of a Woman (1992), Taylor Hackford on An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), and Michael Ritchie on several projects. Other credits include Tango & Cash (1989), Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) and Shaft (2000). He was a member of the American Society of Cinematographers. He died in Tucson, Arizona, in 2016 and was the father of cinematographer Donald E. Thorin Jr.
