Crescenzo G.P. Notarile (born 15 November 1958; age 65) is a cinematographer who worked as Director of Photography on the third season of Star Trek: Discovery and the second and third seasons of Star Trek: Picard.
Notarile was born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, but moved to Brooklyn, New York City with his family as a child. He started out in the film business as second, then first assistant camera, and worked in these capacities, among others, on Amityville II: The Possession (1982, with Andrew Prine), Once Upon a Time in America (1984, with Estelle Harris and Louise Fletcher), and Highlander (1986, starring Clancy Brown, with Edward Wiley).
He soon advanced to camera operator and finally, director-of-photography, and worked mostly on concert films and TV specials, and music videos. His work includes Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Pack Up the Plantation – Live! (1986), Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night (1987), Billy Joel: Live at Yankee Stadium (1990), Van Morrison: The Concert (1990), Metallica: Live Shit – Binge & Purge, Seattle (1993), and Here Is Mariah Carey (1993). He photographed music videos for artists such as Rush, Soul Asylum, ZZ Top, LL Cool J, and Ricky Martin.
Notarile's first feature film as director-of-photography was Moonwalker (1988, with Clancy Brown and Nikki Cox). He later photographed Bullet (1996}, the 2002 drama film Final Breakdown (with Renee E. Goldsberry) and Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision (2003, with John Beck, Todd Bryant, Vince Deadrick, Charles Picerni, Jr., Jeff Pruitt, and Lynnanne Zager).
Since the late 1990, he has mostly worked in television, photographing episodes of series such as Hawaii (with Cary-Hiroyuki and Zachary Quinto), Skin (with Michelle Hurd and Clarence Williams III), Ghost Whisperer (with Kenneth Mitchell and David Clennon), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (starring Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham), Gotham (with James Frain and Alexander Siddig), Star, and Your Honor.
Star Trek credits[]
- DIS:
- "That Hope Is You, Part 1" (additional cinematography) (Season 3)
- "Far From Home" (additional cinematography)
- "People of Earth"
- "Die Trying"
- "Unification III" (additional cinematography)
- "The Sanctuary"
- "Terra Firma, Part 1" (additional cinematography)
- "Terra Firma, Part 2"
- "There Is A Tide..."
- PIC:
- "The Star Gazer" (Season 2)
- "Assimilation"
- "Watcher"
- "Monsters"
- "Mercy"
- "Hide and Seek"
- "Farewell"
- "Seventeen Seconds" (Season 3)
- "No Win Scenario"
- "Dominion"
- "Surrender"
External links[]
- CrescenzoNotarile.com – official website
- Crescenzo Notarile at the Internet Movie Database
- Crescenzo Notarile at X (formerly Twitter)
- Crescenzo Notarile at Instagram