Known for Directing
James Ellis Deakins is an American script supervisor from the East Coast. She double majored in in Latin and Greek in college. She initially worked as film lab technician at DuArtFilm Laboratories in New York City. After moving to Los Angeles, she met English cinematographer Roger Deakins on the film set of Homicide (1991), and the pair married soon after.
Born
January 16, 1954 (age 72)
Filmography
19 films


Levity
2003 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the newly paroled man seeks redemption. Instead, redemption—in the form of a mysterious minister and two needy women— finds him.


The Siege
1998 · 1h 56m
country: United States
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.


Mercury Rising
1998 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Renegade FBI agent Art Jeffries protects a nine-year-old autistic boy who has cracked the government's new "unbreakable" code.


Kundun
1997 · 2h 14m
country: United States
From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.


Fools Rush In
1997 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.


The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · 2h 22m
country: United States
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.


The Secret Garden
1993 · 1h 41m
country: United States
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and forgotten. Aided by one of the servants' boys, she begins restoring the garden, and eventually discovers some other secrets of the manor.


The Dark Half
1993 · 2h 2m
country: United States
Following the public's realization that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are one and the same, the former stages a mock funeral, only for a series of gruesome murders to begin occurring as in his books.


Thunderheart
1992 · 1h 59m
country: United States
A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.


White Fang
1991 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.


Betsy's Wedding
1990 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.


Blue Steel
1990 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That same someone carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders. Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann to clear her name and catch the killer. But she is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who's always one step ahead… and much closer than she thinks!


Enemies, a Love Story
1989 · 1h 59m
country: United States
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.


Rocket Gibraltar
1988 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children, he and his children don't exactly connect. However, he connects with his grandchildren. And he tells them what he wants for his birthday and they do what they can to give it to him.