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James Cameron
b. August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario
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James Francis Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, but grew up in Chippawa, a small town just outside of Niagara Falls, Ontario. His father Phillip Cameron, was an electrical engineer and his mother, Shirley Cameron was an artist. Due to his father's career, the family moved to Orange County. Cameron went to California State University at Fullerton to study physics. Although he got good marks, he came to the realization that science was not for him, and so he switched his major to English. But he dreamed of being involved in filmmaking, a dream that had started as a young boy when he saw 2001: A Space Odyssey. Finally surrendering to his dreams, he dropped out of school and took a series of menial jobs including working in a machine shop, being a truck driver, a school bus driver, and painting pictures, which allowed him to write the stories he wanted to write. After toying with making his own short films, he landed a job as a miniature model maker for the Roger Corman Studios. Making fast, low-budget productions, he learned how to make films efficiently and effectively. Soon he was working as an art director on the sci-fi movie Battle Beyond the Stars in 1980, and he did special effects work design and direction on John Carpenter's Escape from New York in 1981.
 (December 3, 2012) The US specialty channel Showtime has ordered Years Of Living Dangerously, a new documentary series that will explore the human impact of climate change. James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub and Arnold Schwarzenegger will serve as Executive Producers, along with Emmy-winning 60 Minutes producers Joel Bach and David Gelber, and climate expert Daniel Abbasi. Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and Alec Baldwin have been tapped to narrate the series, which will feature first-person accounts of those affected by and seeking solutions to global warming.
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Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Xenogenesis (1978)
Piranha II: The Spawning (1981)
The Terminator (1984)
Aliens (1986)
The Abyss (1989)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
True Lies (1994)
Strange Days (1995)
Titanic (1997)
Expedition: Bismark (TV-2002)
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
Aliens of the Deep (2005)
Avatar (2009)
Battle Angel (2011)
Titanic 3D (2012)
TV Series:
Dark Angel (2000)
Credits as a Screenwriter:
The Terminator (1984)
Aliens (1986)
The Abyss (1989-W)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
True Lies (1994)
Strange Days (1995)
Titanic (1997)
Avatar (2009)
Titanic 3D (2012)
TV Series:
Dark Angel (2000)
Credits as a Producer:
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
True Lies (1994)
Strange Days (1995)
Titanic (1997)
Expedition: Bismark (TV-2002)
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
Aliens of the Deep (2005)
Avatar (2009)
Battle Angel (2011)
Titanic 3D (2012)
TV Series:
Dark Angel (2000)
Years of Living Dangerously (2013)
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Titanic 3D will be released
in April of 2012.
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