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name: "Michael D. Margulies"
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imdb_id: "nm0006540"
tmdb_id: 57360
wikidata_id: "Q1927220"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "2 July 1936"
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# Michael D. Margulies

## Identity

Michael D. Margulies

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-d-margulies
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-d-margulies
- **IMDb ID:** nm0006540
- **TMDB ID:** 57360
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1927220
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1927220, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006540/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57360

Cinematographer. Born 2 July 1936 in Los Angeles.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 2 July 1936, Los Angeles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1927220, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006540/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/57360

## Biography

Michael D. Margulies is an American cinematographer. He was born on 2 July 1936 in Los Angeles, California.

His credits as director of photography include *Minnie and Moskowitz* (1971), *Dirty Mary Crazy Larry* (1974), *My Bodyguard* (1980), *Police Academy* (1984) and *Repossessed* (1990). He has also worked as a camera operator and on numerous television films and series.

Margulies received a Primetime Emmy nomination and has one win and two nominations in total across his career.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Police Academy* (1984), Fi1m 62, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/police-academy.md)

## Complete filmography (60)

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

- *Best of the Best 4: Without Warning* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Her Last Chance* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Hidden in Silence* (1996), Director of Photography
- *The Haunted* (1991), Director of Photography
- *Repossessed* (1990), Director of Photography
- *Stuck with Each Other* (1989), Director of Photography
- *Too Good to Be True* (1988), Director of Photography
- *Run Till You Fall* (1988), Director of Photography
- *Shattered Innocence* (1988), Director of Photography
- *The Deliberate Stranger* (1986), Director of Photography
- *The Deliberate Stranger* (1986), series, Director of Photography
- *16 Days of Glory* (1985), Director of Photography
- *Kids Don't Tell* (1985), Cinematography
- *The Execution* (1985), Director of Photography
- *Police Academy* (1984), Director of Photography — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/police-academy.md)
- *I Take These Men* (1983), Director of Photography
- *Six Weeks* (1982), Director of Photography
- *Having It All* (1982), Director of Photography
- *Margin for Murder* (1981), Director of Photography
- *The Miracle of Kathy Miller* (1981), Director of Photography
- *The Best Little Girl in the World* (1981), Director of Photography
- *Fallen Angel* (1981), Director of Photography
- *My Kidnapper, My Love* (1980), Director of Photography
- *Father Figure* (1980), Director of Photography
- *My Bodyguard* (1980), Director of Photography
- *Where the Ladies Go* (1980), Director of Photography
- *Swan Song* (1980), Director of Photography
- *Friendships, Secrets and Lies* (1979), Director of Photography
- *The Suicide's Wife* (1979), Director of Photography
- *Women in White* (1979), series, Director of Photography
- *My Husband Is Missing* (1978), Director of Photography
- *Evening in Byzantium* (1978), series, Director of Photography
- *The Magic of Lassie* (1978), Director of Photography
- *A Sensitive, Passionate Man* (1977), Director of Photography
- *The Amazing Howard Hughes* (1977), Director of Photography
- *The Amazing Howard Hughes* (1977), series, Director of Photography
- *Minstrel Man* (1977), Cinematography
- *Sherlock Holmes in New York* (1976), Director of Photography
- *The River Niger* (1976), Director of Photography
- *Dark Victory* (1976), Cinematography, Director of Photography
- *Strange New World* (1975), Director of Photography
- *Black Bart* (1975), Director of Photography
- *The Law* (1974), Director of Photography
- *Where Have All the People Gone* (1974), Director of Photography
- *The Stranger Within* (1974), Director of Photography
- *Dirty Mary Crazy Larry* (1974), Director of Photography
- *Live Again, Die Again* (1974), Cinematography
- *The Questor Tapes* (1974), Cinematography
- *The Blue Knight* (1973), Director of Photography
- *The Blue Knight* (1973), series, Director of Photography
- *The Baby* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Jigsaw* (1972), Director of Photography
- *Blood Sabbath* (1972), Director of Photography
- *Minnie and Moskowitz* (1971), Director of Photography
- *Death Takes a Holiday* (1971), Director of Photography
- *Brute Corps* (1971), Director of Photography
- *Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo* (1970), Director of Photography
- *Medium Cool* (1969), Camera Operator
- *Follow Me* (1969), Director of Photography
- *Trouble Nubble Gum*, Producer

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