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name: "Jacques Haitkin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jacques-haitkin"
roles: ["Camera operator"]
born: "29 August 1950"
died: "21 March 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T20:12:13.826612+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."
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# Jacques Haitkin

Camera operator. Born 29 August 1950 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Died 21 March 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Camera operator
- **Born:** 29 August 1950, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- **Died:** 21 March 2023
- **Active:** 1984–2013
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 83 (1), 2010s 83 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1677993, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0354413/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13670

## Biography

Jacques Haitkin was an American cinematographer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 29 August 1950 and died in San Francisco on 21 March 2023.

He studied at the film school of New York University and the American Film Institute. Haitkin was best known as the director of photography on Wes Craven's *A Nightmare on Elm Street* (1984) and its sequel *A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge* (1985). He also worked with Craven on *Shocker* (1989) and with Jack Sholder on *The Hidden* (1987).

Haitkin served as cinematographer on other horror and genre films including *Galaxy of Terror* (1981), *The House Where Evil Dwells* (1982), *Cherry 2000* (1988) and *Wishmaster* (1997). He later worked as a camera operator or second-unit director of photography on several action films such as *The Expendables* (2010), *Furious 7* (2015), *Kong: Skull Island* (2017) and *Black Panther* (2018).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Captain Phillips* (2013), Fi1m 83, Camera Operator — [page](https://film.one/film/captain-phillips.md)
- *A Nightmare on Elm Street* (1984), Fi1m 83, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/a-nightmare-on-elm-street.md)

## Also known for

- *Black Panther* (2018), Camera Operator
- *Captain America: The Winter Soldier* (2014), "C" Camera Operator
- *Furious 7* (2015), Second Unit Director of Photography
- *Kong: Skull Island* (2017), Second Unit Director of Photography
- *The Expendables* (2010), Additional Photography, Second Unit Director of Photography
- *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows* (2016), Second Unit Director of Photography
- *A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge* (1985), Director of Photography
- *Wishmaster* (1997), Director of Photography

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