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Jack Couffer is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Second Unit Director, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 7 december 1924 at Upland (USA)

Jack Couffer

Jack Couffer
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Nationality USA
Birth 7 december 1924 at Upland (USA)
Death 30 july 2021 (at 96 years)

Jack Couffer A.S.C. (born December 7, 1924 in Upland, California) is an American cinematographer and film and television director. Couffer has specialized on documentary films, often involving nature and animal cinematography. Couffer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on the film version of the novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1974).

Couffer served in the United States Army during the Second World War; based on his war experience, he subsequently wrote a book about the "Bat Bomb" project to use bats to deliver incendiary bombs. Following the war Couffer studied at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.


Couffer has described his subsequent career as follows:With his mixed abilities as a naturalist and film maker, Jack joined Walt Disney Studios as a cameraman on the early True Life Adventure series of nature films. He worked at Disney for more than ten years in a variety of functions--writer, director, producer, cameraman--and participated there in the making of more than two dozen movies.

Among many other projects with Disney, Couffer wrote, directed, and filmed the documentary The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle (1967). Couffer has also worked on numerous independent and major studio films and television shows. Couffer was credited as a cinematographer for the influential, experimental documentary The Savage Eye (1959), and received his nomination for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1973). He had worked with Joseph Strick on The Savage Eye, and Strick co-produced two documentary films directed and written by Couffer, including Ring of Bright Water (1969) and The Darwin Adventure (1972).

In addition to his book about the "Bat Bomb," Couffer has published ten other books of non-fiction and fiction.

Usually with

Joseph Strick
Joseph Strick
(5 films)
Sidney Meyers
Sidney Meyers
(2 films)
Ben Maddow
Ben Maddow
(1 films)
Conrad Hall
Conrad Hall
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Jack Couffer (14 films)

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Director

Mountain Family Robinson, 1h40
Directed by Jack Couffer
Genres Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Robert Logan, Susan Damante, George Buck Flower, Heather Rattray, William Bryant
Rating63% 3.1928753.1928753.1928753.1928753.192875
In the final sequel, the Robinsons celebrate the arrival of spring after surviving a fierce winter. Soon their happiness is quickly dashed as a Forest Service ranger informs them they must prove their mountain home is located on a legitimate mining claim or they must move out. Also, Pat finds out that her mother is ill and decides to go back to Los Angeles. Will the Robinsons lose their mountain home? Will Pat come back from the city?
Living Free
Directed by Jack Couffer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Nigel Davenport, Susan Hampshire, Geoffrey Keen, Edward Judd
Rating60% 3.003133.003133.003133.003133.00313
Lorsque les trois lionceaux espiègles d'Elsa commencent à faire des ravages dans les villages voisins, Joy et son mari sont contraints de les déplacer à des centaines de kilomètres dans une réserve naturelle.
Ring of Bright Water, 1h47
Directed by Jack Couffer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals
Actors Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark, Roddy McMillan, Christopher Benjamin
Rating70% 3.5384553.5384553.5384553.5384553.538455
Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) passes a pet shop on his daily walks about London and takes an interest in an otter (specifically, a male river otter) in the window, eventually buying and naming the animal Mij. The otter wreaks havoc in his small apartment and together they leave London for a rustic cottage overlooking the sea on the west coast of Scotland. There they live as beachcombers and make the acquaintance of Dr. Mary (Virginia McKenna) from the nearby village, and her dog Johnny. Mij and Johnny play in the water and bound across the fields together.
The Legend of Lobo, 1h7
Directed by Jack Couffer, James Algar
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Documentaire animalier, Documentary films about environmental issues, Wolves in film, Documentary films about nature, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Rex Allen, Walter Pidgeon, Émile Genest
Rating66% 3.3356653.3356653.3356653.3356653.335665
The film begins when Lobo is a 6-week old pup, identical to his brothers and sisters. While his father, El Feroz is out hunting for meat to feed the family, Lobo follows his nose to his first adventure, and takes a tumble down the cliff his family dens in. As soon as he manages to climb back up, a cougar appears on the scene. Things look grim for the wolves, until "a wild card" shows up; cattlemen riding by below the wolves' den spot the cougar, and shoot it as it prepares to pounce on the wolves. The narrator makes it clear that the cattlemen do not favor the wolves: Lobo is only spared because he's out of sight. When Lobo's father returns to the den soon after the incident, he smells both the cougar and the cattlemen, and decides to pick up and move house to avoid them.
Nikki, Wild Dog of the North, 1h14
Directed by Jack Couffer, Don Haldane
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Documentaire animalier, Documentary films about environmental issues, Films about dogs, Documentary films about nature, Children's films
Actors Émile Genest, Jean Coutu, Robert Rivard
Rating66% 3.3365553.3365553.3365553.3365553.336555
Le film raconte les aventures d'un jeune chien malamute nommé Nikki et son gentil maître, Andre Dupas. Ils voyagent en canoë dans les Rocheuses canadiennes. Quand Nikki rencontre Neewa, un ourson ayant perdu sa mère, Andre attache les deux animaux ensemble, les jette dans le canoë et fonce dans les rapides. Quand les deux animaux se retrouvent séparés d'Andre, l'improbable duo doit apprendre à survivre dans le monde sauvage. Ce qui est initialement une relation de haine et d'incompatibilité se transforme en une relation de compromis et d'amitié entre espèces. Les deux animaux toujours attachés rencontrent des loups, des lynx, des gloutons, des grizzly et beaucoup d'autres animaux sauvages, photographiés de façon brillante et donnent aux spectateurs un sens réel de vie dans la nature. Quand Neewa commence sa longue hibernation, Nikki entame une chasse désespérée pour la nourriture. Le parfum de l'Homme le mène non pas à l'amical Andre Dupas, mais à Jacques LeBeau un trappeur qui essaye d'abord de le prendre dans un piège puis de l'empoisonner. Mais voyant la vigueur de Nikki, et après l'avoir capturé il le forme comme un chien de combat.

Scriptwriter

Cheetah
Cheetah (1989)
, 1h23
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Children's films
Actors Keith Coogan, Lucy Deakins, Jim Ward
Roles Screenstory
Rating59% 2.9538552.9538552.9538552.9538552.953855
An American boy and girl, spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents, adopt a female cheetah they call Duma, only to realize that they must set her free so that she can learn to hunt and be free. However, when she is captured by poachers planning to race her against greyhounds, the two city kids, together with a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue her.
Ring of Bright Water, 1h47
Directed by Jack Couffer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals
Actors Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark, Roddy McMillan, Christopher Benjamin
Rating70% 3.5384553.5384553.5384553.5384553.538455
Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) passes a pet shop on his daily walks about London and takes an interest in an otter (specifically, a male river otter) in the window, eventually buying and naming the animal Mij. The otter wreaks havoc in his small apartment and together they leave London for a rustic cottage overlooking the sea on the west coast of Scotland. There they live as beachcombers and make the acquaintance of Dr. Mary (Virginia McKenna) from the nearby village, and her dog Johnny. Mij and Johnny play in the water and bound across the fields together.
The Legend of the Boy and the Eagle, 48minutes
Directed by Jack Couffer
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors Frank DeKova
Roles Writer
Rating80% 4.021644.021644.021644.021644.02164
Running Target, 1h22
Origin USA
Genres Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Doris Dowling, Arthur Franz, Richard Reeves, Myron Daniel Healey, James Anderson, Gene Roth
Rating56% 2.8168152.8168152.8168152.8168152.816815
This script must be run from the command line

Producer

Never Cry Wolf, 1h45
Directed by Carroll Ballard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about dogs, Wolves in film, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy, Tom Dahlgren
Roles Producer
Rating74% 3.7451453.7451453.7451453.7451453.745145
Young, naive Canadian biologist Tyler (Charles Martin Smith) is assigned by the government to travel to the isolated Canadian arctic wilderness and study why the area's caribou population is declining, believed to be due to wolf-pack attacks; amongst his orders to study them he is also given a gun and required to kill one wolf and examine its stomach contents. Tyler receives a baptism of fire into bush life with a trip by bush plane piloted by Rosie (Brian Dennehy). After landing at the destination, Rosie leaves Tyler in the middle of a sub-zero frozen Arctic lake. Tyler's indecision imperils him when falls into the freezing water, until he is rescued by a travelling Inuit named Ootek (Zachary Ittimangnaq), who builds a shelter for him.
Running Target, 1h22
Origin USA
Genres Crime, Romance, Western
Actors Doris Dowling, Arthur Franz, Richard Reeves, Myron Daniel Healey, James Anderson, Gene Roth
Roles Producer
Rating56% 2.8168152.8168152.8168152.8168152.816815
This script must be run from the command line

Director

Sheena
Sheena (1984)
, 1h52
Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un éléphant, Films about apes, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Tanya Roberts, Ted Wass, Donovan Scott, France Zobda, Clifton Jones, John Forgeham
Roles Second Unit Director
Rating49% 2.4609452.4609452.4609452.4609452.460945
While investigating rumors of a mystical "healing earth" whose powers are said to flow forth from the sacred Gudjara Mountain, geologists Philip and Betsy Ames (Michael Shannon and Nancy Paul) are killed in a cave-in, leaving their young daughter Janet an orphan.