Bruce Logan

DGA Director West Coast
DP IATSE 600
American Society of Cinematographers
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences


Remember Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star in Star Wars?
How about the tail-fin of a plane prowling through the clouds in Airplane?
The movie’s first journey into cyberspace when Tron fights for the users on the game-grid?
Or Lily Tomlin, The Incredible Shrinking Woman, falling down her own garbage disposal?
Or Johnny Depp’s acid road trip in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas?

All of them indelible cinematic images immortalized by Bruce Logan.




A versatile, two-time Emmy-winning Writer/Director. A Director/Cameraman of commercials specializing in Comedy, Action and Special Visual Effects. He’s a two time winner of advertising’s most coveted award, a Golden Lion at the Cannes film festival, and has several Superbowl spots to his credit. Multi-faceted, he is also a Screenwriter, Director of Photography, Visual Effects Director and Producer, a championship winning race car driver and a licensed pilot. Phew.


Bruce Logan’s love of outstanding imagery started in his late teens, when London-born Logan was hired by Stanley Kubrick to work under Douglas Trumbull on 2001 A Space Odyssey. From his work on classics such as Star Wars, Star Trek, Tron, Airplane and Firefox to Batman Forever and The Rookie - special effects have become second nature to him as a tool in his story-telling sensibilities.


Soon involved in more elements of the filmmaking process, Bruce became a Director of Photography on music videos for artists as diverse as Madonna, Prince, Rod Stewart, Aerosmith and The Go-Gos as well as features such as Star Trek:The Movie, Tron, I Never Promised You A Rose Garden and Jackson County Jail.


Developing further still, and drawing on his own acting and directing studies with Stella Adler, Nina Foch and George Tyne, and his father Campbell Logan, BBC classical drama director, amongst others, Bruce began directing commercials for every major brand, including Pepsi, Visa, Dunlop, General Electric, Chevrolet, Honda, Jeep, Hitachi and Dupont – taking him all over the world. He was also the Second Unit Director on Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and directed the PBS Great Performances show featuring Culture Clash in Bowl of Beings.


Combining his love of directing with his visual effects experience, Bruce developed a new Virtual Set Process with the Entertainment Design Workshop. He directing episodes of a new Disney television show The Book of Pooh, and produced VFX for It’s Big Big World two seasons for PBS utilizing this unique process.


B R U C E

FEATURE
FILMOGRAPHY


“Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas”

“Batman - Forever”

“The Rookie”

“Bird”

“Deal of the Century”

“Tron”

“Firefox”

“The Incredible Shrinking Woman“

“Star Trek” The Movie

“Vendetta”

“I Never Promised You a Rose Garden”

“Airplane”

“Star Wars”

“It’s A Big Big World”

Universal
Director Second Unit

Warner Bros.
Director of Photography SFX

Malpaso
Director Process Unit

Malpaso
Director Process Unit

Warner Bros.
Director Second Unit and VFX

Disney
Director of Photography

Malpaso
Director Process Unit

Universal
Director of Photography
Director of Special Visual Effects

Paramount
Additional photography

Concorde/New Horizons
Director

New World
Director of Photography


Paramount
Director of Photography Visual Effects

20th. Century Fox
Director of Photography Visual Effects

PBS
Producer Visual Effects