Ernest R. Dickerson

ActorDirectorDirectingCinematographerWriter Jun 25 (age 74) Newark, New Jersey, USA 1983–2025 (42 year career)

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Biography

Ernest Roscoe Dickerson A.S.C. (usually credited as Ernest R. Dickerson or Ernest Dickerson, born June 25, 1951) is an American film and television director and cinematographer. He directed generally urban films sometimes with supernatural story like Juice, Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight, Bones and Never Die Alone. He is known for his frequent collaborations with Spike Lee.

Known For

Film

The Walking Dead

Director

Film

The Vampire Diaries

Director

Film

Dexter

Director

Film

Criminal Minds

Director

Film

The Wire

Director

Film

House of Cards

Director

Film

Under the Dome

Director

Film

Do the Right Thing

Director of Photography

Filmography

Acting (27)

Movies (21)

Den of Vampires

2025

In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999

2025

as Self

Love and Hate

2023

as Self

Tales of the Uncanny

as Self

The Horror Crowd

as Self

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

as Self

That Guy Dick Miller

as Self

Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

2011

as Self

One Night in Vegas

2010

as Self

6.3

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

2009

as Self

7.0

Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil

2007

as Self

4.3

View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

2007

as Self

7.4

Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

2007

as Self

6.0

The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

as Self

Hitchcocked!

as Self

Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema

2005

as Self

6.6

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'

as Self

Visions of Light

as Self

Making 'Do the Right Thing'

as Self

She's Gotta Have It

as Dog 8

Revisiting The Learning Tree

Television (6)

Horror's Greatest

2024

as Self - Director, Demon Knight

6.3

100 Years of Warner Bros.

2023

as Self

7.7

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

2023

as Self

7.0

The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time

2022

as Self

7.1

Eli Roth's History of Horror

2018

as Self

6.4

Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'

2018

as Self

6.3

Crew (95)

Movies (46)

Double Play

Director

Last Man Standing

Director

Miracle at St. Anna

Second Unit Director

For One Night

Director

The V Word

Director

Never Die Alone

Director

Good Fences

Director

Monday Night Mayhem

Director

Our America

Director of Photography

7.0

Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie

Director

Bones

Director

Strange Justice

Director

Futuresport

Director

Ambushed

Director

Blind Faith

Director

Bulletproof

Director

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

Director

Surviving the Game

Director

Stephen King's Golden Tales

1993

Director of Photography

4.2

Malcolm X

1992

Director of Photography

Juice

Director

Juice

Screenplay

Juice

Story

Cousin Bobby

Camera Operator

Cousin Bobby

Director of Photography

6.0

Jungle Fever

1991

Director of Photography

6.4

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

1991

Director of Photography

6.2

Def by Temptation

1990

Director of Photography

4.7

Mo' Better Blues

1990

Director of Photography

6.5

Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella

1990

Director

10.0

Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story

1990

Director of Photography

5.6

Do the Right Thing

1989

Director of Photography

7.8

Fright House

1989

Director of Photography

2.0

The Laser Man

1988

Director of Photography

5.0

School Daze

1988

Director of Photography

5.7

Eddie Murphy Raw

1987

Director of Photography

7.3

Enemy Territory

1987

Director of Photography

5.6

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

1987

Additional Camera

She's Gotta Have It

1986

Director of Photography

6.6

Almacita, Soul of Desolato

1986

Director of Photography

Vampires

1986

Director of Photography

3.4

Krush Groove

1985

Director of Photography

6.2

The Brother from Another Planet

1984

Director of Photography

6.6

Desiree

1984

Director of Photography

5.7

Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

1983

Director of Photography

5.8

Morris Stokes

Director

Television (49)

Parish

Director

Bosch: Legacy

Director

DMZ

Director

Raised by Wolves

Director

The Purge

Director

Seven Seconds

Director

Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.

Director

The Deuce

Director

Blindspot

Director

Bosch

Director

The Man in the High Castle

Director

State of Affairs

Director

Sleepy Hollow

Director

House of Cards

Director

Under the Dome

Director

Low Winter Sun

Director

Revolution

Director

Once Upon a Time

Director

The Cape

Director

The Walking Dead

Director

Treme

Director

The Vampire Diaries

Director

Stargate Universe

Director

In Plain Sight

Director

Fear Itself

Director

Burn Notice

Director

Tell Me You Love Me

Director

Dexter

Director

Heroes

Director

Eureka

Director

The Evidence

Director

Criminal Minds

Director

Medium

Director

Weeds

Director

Masters of Horror

Director

Invasion

Director

Miracle's Boys

Director

The L Word

Director

The 4400

Director

CSI: Miami

Director

The Wire

Director

Crossing Jordan

Director

Night Visions

Director

Third Watch

Director

Director

Law & Order

Director

Tales from the Crypt

Director

Tales from the Darkside

1984

Director

7.2

Tales from the Darkside

1984

Director of Photography

7.2