Tom DiCillo

Biography

Tom DiCillo is an American director, cinematographer, writer and actor born in Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina, and who studied film at New York University. During his early career he began working with director Jim Jarmusch as a cinematographer on films that include Permanent Vacation and Stranger Than Paradise. His experience as cinematographer proved invaluable and he was soon writing and directing his own films.

Directed

1. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) — Director
2. Chicago Fire (2012) — Director
3. Monk (2002) — Director
4. The Good Wife (2009) — Director
5. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) — Director
6. Living in Oblivion (1995) — Director
7. When You're Strange (2010) — Director
8. Delirious (2007) — Director
9. Flaked (2016) — Director
10. Box of Moonlight (1996) — Director
11. Johnny Suede (1991) — Director
12. Double Whammy (2001) — Director
13. The Real Blonde (1998) — Director
14. Law & Order: LA (2010) — Director
15. Lights Out (2011) — Director
16. Down in Shadowland (2014) — Director
17. God Save the King (1977) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Stranger Than Paradise (1984) — Airline Agent
2. Uncle Howard (2017) — Self
3. Chain Letters (1985) — Bob
4. Kingdom Come (2012) — Self
5. Independent's Day (1998) — Self
6. At Sundance (1995) — Self
7. Kino '84: The Making of Jim Jarmusch (1984) — Interviewee
8. Give me a spell (1984)
9. Some Days in January, 1984 (2001)