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name: "Oliver Bokelberg"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/oliver-bokelberg"
fi1m_id: "oliver-bokelberg"
imdb_id: "nm0092575"
tmdb_id: 20268
wikidata_id: "Q2020093"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "21 December 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-23T04:12:06.612934+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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# Oliver Bokelberg

## Identity

Oliver Bokelberg

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/oliver-bokelberg
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** oliver-bokelberg
- **IMDb ID:** nm0092575
- **TMDB ID:** 20268
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2020093
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2020093, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092575/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20268

Director. Born 21 December 1964 in Hamburg.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 21 December 1964, Hamburg
- **Active:** 2003–present
- **Also known as:** Oliver Bokelberg, ASC
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Bille Woodruff](https://film.one/person/bille-woodruff.md), [Geary McLeod](https://film.one/person/geary-mcleod.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2020093, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092575/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20268

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Grey's Anatomy*](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md) (68)

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

## Biography

Oliver Bokelberg is a German cinematographer and member of the American Society of Cinematographers. He was born in Hamburg on 21 December 1964 and studied film and television at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University from 1985 to 1988.

After graduation he worked on music videos, commercials and documentaries before making his feature debut in 1996. His cinematography credits include *The Station Agent* (2003), *The Visitor* (2007), *Win Win* (2011) and *The Bounty Hunter* (2010). He has also worked extensively in television, serving as director of photography on *Scandal* (2012–2018).

Bokelberg joined the ASC in 2012 and is also a member of the Berufsverband Kinematografie.

*Sources: de.wikipedia.org, theasc.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *Grey's Anatomy* (2005), Fi1m 68, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md)

### Crew (1)

- *The Station Agent* (2003), Fi1m 82, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/the-station-agent.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *Last Days* (2025), Director of Photography
- *Will Trent* (2023), series, Director of Photography, Director
- *Alaska Daily* (2022), series, Co-Executive Producer, Director of Photography, Director
- *Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker* (2020), Director
- *Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square* (2020), Director of Photography
- *Big Sky* (2020), series, Director
- *Station 19* (2018), series, Director
- *Scandal* (2012), series, Director
- *Win Win* (2011), Director of Photography
- *The Bounty Hunter* (2010), Director of Photography
- *The Answer Man* (2009), Director of Photography
- *Dark Matter* (2008), Director of Photography
- *The Visitor* (2008), Director of Photography
- *A Friend of Mine* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Strangers with Candy* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Avenger* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Loggerheads* (2005), Director of Photography
- *Grey's Anatomy* (2005), series, Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/greys-anatomy.md)
- *The Station Agent* (2003), Director of Photography — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-station-agent.md)
- *Tigermännchen sucht Tigerweibchen* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Hunters in the Snow* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Harvest* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Long Time Since* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Schimanski* (1997), series, Camera Supervisor
- *Charm's Incidents* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Burning Bridges* (1996), Cinematography
- *A Licensed Liberty* (1990), Director of Photography

## Gallery

- ![Oliver Bokelberg](https://film.one/media/person/98229/gallery-736c84832892.jpg) Oliver Bokelberg — Rosiestep, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Oliver_Bokelberg_at_Sundance_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Oliver Bokelberg](https://film.one/media/person/98229/gallery-2afd2aba6b6a.jpg) Oliver Bokelberg — Image via TMDB

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