David Sanderson

At eighteen years of age, David Sanderson began his career as a production assistant on the feature motion picture, Convoy (1978), directed by Sam Peckinpah. After more work as production assistant, actor, property assistant and film loader on productions, such as: _Cloud Dancer_(1980_, Little House on the Priarie_(1980), The Yeagers_(1980), Mommie Dearest (1981), _Reds_(1981)_, Young Maverick (1979), _Rocky 3_(1983)_, ChiPs_(1982-1983), _Dallas_(1981-1984)_ and many more, David was hired by a Panavision Representative Company(Victor Duncan, Inc.)to work as a camera technician. Upon satisfying his commitment there, David began work immediately as a second and first assistant cameraman on many more television and feature productions, such as _Dallas_(1986-1988)_, _Robocop_(1987)_, _The Tracker_(1988)_, Lonesome Dove (1989) (Original), Cold Sassy Tree (1989), Dances with Wolves (1990),Crime Story-The Series_(1990), Father Dowling Mysteries_(1989-1990), In the Heat of the Night_(1991-1992), _Last of the Mohicans_(1990)_, _The People vs Larry Flynt_(1997)_ and more. He also began working as an assistant and camera operator on commercial, industrial and music video projects. After promoting to the A Camera Operator position on _Walker Texas Ranger_(, David continued in the new upgraded position on TV Movies and Features, such as _Presidents Man_(2000)_, The President's Man: A Line in the Sand (2002) and Logan's War: Bound by Honor (1998) and many more. During his time as the A Camera Operator on _Walker Texas Ranger_(1998-2001)_, David was recruited by a European Director to work as Director of Photography on a project in Austria. With the success of that project, David was asked to return to Europe as Director of Photography on many more, deciding to move himself and his family to Berlin (as a home base), in 2002. Projects included series, mini-series and features on locations in Spain, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic and Austria over the next seven years ... prior to him and his family's return to the USA (in 2008). David currently works on both American and European productions.