---
name: "Ramsey Nickell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ramsey-nickell"
fi1m_id: "ramsey-nickell"
imdb_id: "nm1052973"
tmdb_id: 59423
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "10 August 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 56
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T13:30:30.946791+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."
---

# Ramsey Nickell

## Identity

Ramsey Nickell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ramsey-nickell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ramsey-nickell
- **IMDb ID:** nm1052973
- **TMDB ID:** 59423
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1052973/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59423

Cinematographer. Born 10 August 1963 in Landstuhl, West Germany.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 10 August 1963, Landstuhl, West Germany
- **Active:** 2025–present
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1052973/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59423

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*Dexter: Resurrection*](https://film.one/tv/dexter-resurrection.md) (64)
- **Apple TV:** [*Scream 7*](https://film.one/film/scream-7.md) (48)

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

## Biography

Ramsey Nickell is a cinematographer and director. He was born on 10 August 1963 in Landstuhl, West Germany.

Nickell began his career in music videos, working as a gaffer with directors of photography including Larry Fong, Bill Pope and Samuel Bayer. He contributed to more than fifty music videos with Bayer, starting with Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit". As director of photography he has worked on feature films including *Casa de mi Padre* (2012), *Chaos Theory* (2008) and *Let's Go to Prison* (2006), and on television series such as *American Crime* (2015–2017), *Lethal Weapon* (2016) and *Marvel's Runaways* (2017). He served as director of photography on *Scream 7* (2026). Nickell has also directed episodes of *Runaways* and *Nancy Drew*.

*Sources: imdb.com, ramseynickell.com, scream.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Scream 7* (2026), Fi1m 48, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/scream-7.md)
- *Dexter: Resurrection* (2025), Fi1m 64, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter-resurrection.md)

## Complete filmography (28)

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

- *Scream 7* (2026), Director of Photography — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/scream-7.md)
- *Dexter: Resurrection* (2025), series, Director of Photography — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter-resurrection.md)
- *The Waterfront* (2025), series, Director of Photography
- *Shirley* (2024), Director of Photography
- *Five Days at Memorial* (2022), series, Director of Photography
- *Needle in a Timestack* (2021), Director of Photography
- *Looking for Alaska* (2019), series, Director of Photography
- *Nancy Drew* (2019), series, Director
- *The Passage* (2019), series, Director of Photography
- *Marvel's Runaways* (2017), series, Director
- *Guerrilla* (2017), series, Director of Photography
- *Lethal Weapon* (2016), series, Director of Photography
- *Kevin from Work* (2015), series, Director of Photography
- *American Crime* (2015), series, Director
- *The Following* (2013), series, Director of Photography
- *Metallica: Quebec Magnetic* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Casa de Mi Padre* (2012), Director of Photography
- *The Secret Circle* (2011), series, Director of Photography
- *Chaos Theory* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Let's Go to Prison* (2006), Director of Photography
- *The Oh in Ohio* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Pretty Persuasion* (2005), Director of Photography
- *The Mountain* (2004), series, Director of Photography
- *Fastlane* (2002), series, Director of Photography
- *Green Day: International Supervideos!* (2001), Director of Photography
- *The Medicine Show* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Playboy: Rising Stars and Sexy Starlets* (1997), Cinematography

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