Biography
Jan de Bont (Dutch: [ˈjɑn də ˈbɔnt]; born October 22, 1943) is a Dutch retired cinematographer, director and film producer. He is best known for directing the films Speed (1994) and Twister (1996). As a director of photography, de Bont also worked on numerous blockbusters and genre films, including Roar, Cujo, Flesh and Blood, Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Lethal Weapon 3, and Basic Instinct.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone
2020
as Self
A documentary about the Paul Verhoeven's cult classic Basic Instinct.

Ken San
2016
as Self
KEN SAN pieces together the puzzle of the life and legacy of Japan's mythical acting icon, Ken Takakura. Collaborators, friends and family tell intima...

There Is No Plane to Zagreb
2012
Director of Photography
A retrospective of events in director Louis van Gasteren’s life from 1964 to 1969, filmed by him in that period and reflected on from his vantage poin...

The Paperboy
2012
Executive Producer
A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo'
2007
as Self
Documentary about the making of the 1983 thriller "Cujo"

Black Rain: Making The Film
2006
as Self
A documentary on the making of the film, Black Rain, which actually encompasses 4 parts, Production, Filming, The Script and Cast, Post-Production

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
2003
Director
Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft makes the unexpected discovery of a pulsating golden orb able...

Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'The Hunt for Red October'
2003
as Self
This program features the standard mix of movie clips, production materials, and interviews. Cast and crew start at the beginning and discussed the ac...

Thoughtcrimes
2003
Executive Producer
Freya McAllister suddenly starts hearing voices in her head on the night of her High School Prom. One night Dr Michael Welles arrives telling Freya th...

Equilibrium
2002
Producer
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A ...

Minority Report
2002
Producer
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the ...

The Haunting
1999
Executive Producer, Director
Dr. David Marrow invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate gu...

SLC Punk
1998
Executive Producer
Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with their lives.

Speed 2: Cruise Control
1997
Director, Producer, Story
A disgruntled former employee hijacks the Seabourn Legend cruise liner. Set on a fixed course, without any means of communication and at the mercy of ...

Twister
1996
Director
An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaki...

Speed
1994
Director
Jack Traven, an LAPD cop on SWAT detail, and veteran SWAT officer Harry Temple thwart an extortionist-bomber's scheme for a $3 million ransom. As they...

The Ditvoorst Domains
1992
as Self
Documentary about the Dutch film director Adriaan Ditvoorst.

Lethal Weapon 3
1992
as Dutch Cameraman (uncredited)
Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition t...

Lethal Weapon 3
1992
Director of Photography
Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition t...

Basic Instinct
1992
Director of Photography
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described...

Shining Through
1992
Director of Photography
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War...

Flatliners
1990
Director of Photography
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, a...

Parker Kane
1990
Director of Photography
Parker Kane is a former Police Detective turned Private Investigator. When close friend Joey is murdered, leaving behind a briefcase full of money, Ka...

The Hunt for Red October
1990
Director of Photography
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The Ameri...

Black Rain
1989
Director of Photography
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to es...

Die Hard
1988
Director of Photography
NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her offices Christmas...

Leonard Part 6
1987
Director of Photography
After separating from his wife, Leonard Parker (Cosby) quit the spy business and became a restaurateur. His wife refuses to speak with him, and his da...

Who's That Girl
1987
Director of Photography
An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-c...

Ruthless People
1986
Director of Photography
Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exc...

The Clan of the Cave Bear
1986
Director of Photography
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would ...

Flesh + Blood
1985
Director of Photography
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague ...

The Jewel of the Nile
1985
Director of Photography
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who...

Madonna: The Virgin Tour — Live
1985
Cinematography
Madonna: The Virgin Tour — Live contains the concert footage from The Virgin Tour, filmed at Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan on May 25, 1985. Madonna ...

Heart of a Champion: The Ray Mancini Story
1985
Cinematography
The film details the life of Ray Mancini, a World Boxing Association world lightweight champion boxer from 1982 to 1984, Hollywood actor and a member ...

Bad Manners
1984
Director of Photography
Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, then trash the whole house.

All the Right Moves
1983
Director of Photography
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football schol...

Cujo
1983
Director of Photography
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

The 4th Man
1983
Director of Photography
A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982
Director of Photography
An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.

Breach of Contract
1982
Director of Photography
A husband and wife, both of whom are career-oriented, agree never to step on the other's ambitions. Unfortunately, both become too ambitious for their...

Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker
1981
Director of Photography
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy w...

Roar
1981
Director of Photography, Camera Operator, Supervising Editor
Roar follows a family who are attacked by various African animals at the secluded home of their keeper.

Private Lessons
1981
Director of Photography
Phillip Filmore is a naive, 15-year-old, preoccupied with sex, who develops a crush on Nicole Mallow, the new 30-something, French housekeeper and sit...

Max Havelaar
1976
Director of Photography
An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually hel...

She
1976
Cinematography
A woman as an object of poetic observation seen through the eager eye of the camera. Cinematic means are used to reflect the moods of women.

The Last Train
1975
Director of Photography
The film is set in a signalman's house during the German occupation. When it turns out that the mother has committed adultery with a German, things st...

Katie Tippel
1975
Director of Photography
In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless ris...

De blinde fotograaf
1973
Director of Photography
A journalist has to interview a blind photographer.
The Family
1973
Director of Photography

Turkish Delight
1973
Director of Photography
Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Ericvhas a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.

João and the Knife
1972
Director of Photography
Against all advice, a destitute Brazilian old man marries a nineteen-year-old girl. Because he can’t give her any children, he moves to the interior t...

Business Is Business
1971
Director of Photography
The story of two prostitutes working in the Amsterdam Red Light district, and the many strange and unusual men they meet through their work.

Blue Movie
1971
Director of Photography
25-year-old Michael has been released from prison after a five-year sentence. He moves into a big apartment block, filled with young women who gladly ...

The Wrestler
1971
Director of Photography
A worried father tries to end the relationship that his son Andries has with the wife of a wrestler.

Antenna
1970
Director of Photography
Antenna gives a snapshot of the 1970s. The film is a typical work by Ditvoorst: freedom of the individual, the desire for a utopia that does not come ...
Een winterliefde
1970
Cinematography
Short film from 1970.

Joop Strikes Again...
1970
Camera Operator
Joop is sleeping in the apartment of his friend Bernard. He is waken up by a woman who is looking for Bernard. Later they babysit the neighbor's grand...

Drop-out
1969
Cinematography

The White Slave
1969
Director of Photography
A man visits his girlfriend in Amsterdam after the war. He soon finds himself, for inexplicable reasons, in a country house where two women as 'white ...

De baby in de boom
1969
Cinematography
Short film, in which three boys want to go swimming on a Sunday afternoon, but one of the three has to look after his baby sister. They decide to take...

Carna
1969
Director of Photography
Although it was actually an impersonal commissioned film, the director's style is clearly recognizable. Once again he manages to make something that i...

Begrijpt u nu waarom ik huil?
1969
Cinematography
The work of Leiden professor Bastiaans on dealing with the trauma of war victims attracts the attention of filmmaker Louis van Gasteren. He decides to...

Sabotage
1967
Cinematography
Short film about four boys who clash with the custodian of a construction site, because the growing number of buildings impedes on their playground. T...

Paranoia
1967
Director of Photography
A man is under the illusion he is a wanted war criminal.

De minder gelukkige terugkeer van Joszef Katus naar het land van Rembrandt
1966
Cinematography
The dutchified Hungarian Joszef Katús returns, after a months-long absence, to Amsterdam on 29 April 1966. The arrival of the Provos changed a great d...
Body and Soul
1966
Director of Photography
Short film, shot in twenty hours, about a bodybuilder who is stunned to discover he no longer has his body under control. He wonders whether all the a...

1, 2, 3, Rhapsody
1965
An iconoclastic first film from the headstrong teenagers of the 1,2,3 Group, who took turns to write, direct, and star in a series of irreverent skits...

1, 2, 3, Rhapsody
1965
Director
An iconoclastic first film from the headstrong teenagers of the 1,2,3 Group, who took turns to write, direct, and star in a series of irreverent skits...

That Way to Madra
1965
Director of Photography
A conscript is given leave to visit his wife who has been admitted to hospital after a road accident. Dutch student film in the vein of the French Nou...