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- Birth nameErnest Roscoe Dickerson
- Ernest Roscoe Dickerson A.S.C., aka. Ernest R. Dickerson, is an American film director and cinematographer. As a cinematographer, he is known for his frequent collaborations with Spike Lee. As a director, he is known for films such as Juice (1992), Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995), Bones (2001) and Never Die Alone (2004). He has also directed several episodes of acclaimed television series such as Once Upon a Time (2011), The Wire (2002), Dexter (2006), and The Walking Dead (2010).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Movie Guy
- SpousesRose Geddes(September 17, 2015 - present)? (divorced, 5 children)
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- Graduated from Howard University, an Historically Black college in Washington, DC, and later met filmmaker Spike Lee while both of them were attending New York University's Film School.
- Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 1990. He was its first African-American member.
- Frequently worked as a cinematographer on many of Spike Lee's early movies.
- Taught film classes at Howard University's School of Communications.
- One of his all-time favorite movies of all time is John Huston's adaptation of Moby Dick, having seen it multiple times as a kid.
- (About his movie 'Demon Knight): I've always enjoyed films that did a bit of genre-blending and I thought the story for Demon Knight did that perfectly. It was the perfect storm of horror, humor, thrills, had some mystery to it and a lot of emotion so I immediately knew this was going to be a very atypical horror movie to be involved with.
- I've been fortunate enough that the rappers that I have worked with have all taken their work very seriously. I first worked with Tupac on my first film, but that was before he was really known. Then Ice-T came very correct. And Snoop Dogg in Bones took his role very seriously and DMX took his role very seriously. I think, to me, if the person comes to the project really wanting to act or really wanting to create a character and is willing to put in the time and work to do that.
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