Donald McAlpine

Donald McAlpine, ASC, ACS is a leading director of photography who shot the box-office hit X-Men Origins: Wolverine, starring Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber and Ryan Reynolds; Main Street, a feature-film rendering of Horton Foote's play starring Colin Firth, Patricia Clarkson and Orlando Bloom; and the comedy Mental, featuring Schreiber and Toni Collette.

Born and raised in Australia, McAlpine first served as director of photography on The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, one of the films that marked the early '70s production revival known as "new Australian cinema." He went on to lens some of the most popular films in recent times including Moulin Rouge! for which he received an Oscar nomination, as well as The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Time Machine and Anger Management.

Among his many other films as director of photography are Mrs. Doubtfire, Stepmom, The Edge, Romeo + Juliet, Nine Months, Clear and Present Danger, The Man Without a Face, Patriot Games, Medicine Man, Parenthood, Moon Over Parador, Predator, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, King David, Moscow on the Hudson, Breaker Morant, My Brilliant Career, Don's Party and Gentle Strangers.

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