---
name: "Joe Collins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joe-collins"
fi1m_id: "joe-collins"
imdb_id: "nm0172420"
tmdb_id: 2030403
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T13:36:43.175124+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."
---

# Joe Collins

## Identity

Joe Collins

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joe-collins
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joe-collins
- **IMDb ID:** nm0172420
- **TMDB ID:** 2030403
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172420/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2030403

Cinematographer.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0172420/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2030403

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Dexter: Resurrection*](https://film.one/tv/dexter-resurrection.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Joe Collins is an American cinematographer and director. He graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication at Arizona State University with a BS in Broadcasting in 1987. He began working in New York as a camera prep technician and joined the International Cinematographers Guild in 1990.

Collins worked as a camera assistant on 1990s feature films including *A Bronx Tale*, *Glengarry Glen Ross*, *Forrest Gump*, *Carlito's Way* and *Shaft*, as well as music videos and series such as *Spin City*, *NYPD Blue* and *Sex and the City*. He became a camera operator in 2001 and a director of photography from 2009, with credits on series including *Ugly Betty*, *Royal Pains*, *City on a Hill* (2019–2021), *Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin* (2022) and *Dexter: Resurrection* (2025). He has also directed episodes of series including *Royal Pains* and *Instinct*.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dexter: Resurrection* (2025), Fi1m 64, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter-resurrection.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Super Troopers 3* (2026), Director of Photography
- *Dexter: Resurrection* (2025), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter-resurrection.md)
- *Quasi* (2023), Director of Photography
- *Easter Sunday* (2022), Director of Photography
- *Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin* (2022), series, Director of Photography
- *City on a Hill* (2019), series, Director of Photography
- *Super Troopers 2* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Instinct* (2018), series, Director, Director of Photography
- *Feed the Beast* (2016), series, Director of Photography
- *Z: The Beginning of Everything* (2015), Cinematography
- *Royal Pains* (2009), series, Director, Director of Photography
- *The Nanny Diaries* (2007), "A" Camera Operator
- *Friends with Money* (2006), Camera Operator
- *Riding in Cars with Boys* (2001), First Assistant Camera
- *Bringing Out the Dead* (1999), First Assistant Camera
- *The Love Letter* (1999), First Assistant Camera
- *The Devil's Advocate* (1997), Second Assistant Camera

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