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.
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Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
-P indicates also Producer
-W indicates also Screenwriter.
Xenogenesis (1978)
Piranha II: The Spawning (1981)
The Terminator (1984-W)
Aliens (1986-W)
The Abyss (1989-W)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991-P-W)
True Lies (1994-P-W)
Strange Days (1995-P-W)
Titanic (1997-P-W)
Expedition: Bismark (TV-2002-P)
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003-P)
Aliens of the Deep (2005-P)
Avatar (2009-W-P)
Battle Angel (2011-W-P)
TV Series:
Dark Angel (2000-P-W)
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