---
name: "Frank Prinzi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frank-prinzi"
roles: ["Additional camera","Director"]
born: "1 January 1901"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 87
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-20T21:11:12.331417+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Frank Prinzi

Additional camera and director. Born 1 January 1901.

## Details

- **Work:** Additional camera, Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1901
- **Active:** 1984–1991
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 1 directing, 3 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (2), 1990s 84 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 87 to 83 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Comedy 1, Documentary 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $44m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5489080, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697910/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56906

## Biography

Frank Prinzi is an American cinematographer and director. He earned a degree from New York University and has worked in film and television since the mid-1980s.

Prinzi served as cinematographer on 44 episodes of the series *Northern Exposure* (1991–1993) and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Cinematography for a Series in 1992. He has also been director of photography on episodes of *Law & Order: Criminal Intent*, *The Blacklist* and films including *Living in Oblivion* (1995) and *The Virtuoso* (2021). As a director he has worked on episodes of *Northern Exposure*, *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (34 episodes) and *Last Week Tonight with John Oliver*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, televisionacademy.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Directed (1)

- *Northern Exposure* (1990), Fi1m 82, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/northern-exposure.md)

### Crew (3) — the average rests on these

- *Paris Is Burning* (1991), Fi1m 86, Additional Camera — [page](https://film.one/film/paris-is-burning.md)
- *Do the Right Thing* (1989), Fi1m 93, Camera Operator — [page](https://film.one/film/do-the-right-thing.md)
- *Stranger Than Paradise* (1984), Fi1m 82, Grip, Gaffer — [page](https://film.one/film/stranger-than-paradise.md)

## Also known for

- *The Blacklist* (2013), Director of Photography
- *Night of the Living Dead* (1990), Director of Photography
- *The Virtuoso* (2021), Director of Photography
- *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), Director, Director of Photography
- *Living in Oblivion* (1995), Director of Photography
- *Jungle Fever* (1991), Additional Camera
- *A Better Tomorrow II* (1987), Director of Photography
- *An Interview with God* (2018), Director of Photography

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