Date of Birth:
21 September 1944
Birth Name:
Joseph Caleb Deschanel
Trivia:
Father of actresses Emily Deschanel and Zooey Deschanel.
Graduated from USC School of Cinema-Television (1968)
Attended Johns Hopkins University before USC film school.
Worked as a camera operator for Wakefield Orloff and Paisley productions.
Co-founder of Dark Light Pictures, W. Hollywood, CA, circa 1994
Member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Cinematographers Branch) [2003-]
Born to a French father and an American mother, who raised him in her Quaker religion.
Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 1984.
Was a member of American Zoetrope Studios in San Francisco.
Father-in-law of Benjamin Gibbard and David Hornsby.
