Biography
Mikael Salomon is a Danish filmmaker and cinematographer. After a long career in Denmark, he moved to Hollywood in the late 1980s. He has been nominated for an Oscar twice.
Known For
Complete Filmography

King on Screen
2023
as Self
1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than...

Big Driver
2014
Director
Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.

Drew Peterson: Untouchable
2014
Director
The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.

Freezer
2014
Director
New York city mechanic Robert Saunders is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner by Russian thugs and wakes up to find himself locked inside the r...

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening
2012
Director
Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each othe...

Who Is Clark Rockefeller?
2010
Director, Co-Executive Producer
Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" had brilliantly impers...

The Lost Future
2010
Director
A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civ...

Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration
2010
as Self
Interviews analyzing and looking back at the making of, and the impact made by, of one of the greatest epic films ever produced.

Natalee Holloway
2009
Director, Co-Executive Producer
On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.

Flirting with Forty
2008
Director
A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.

Terra Incognita: Making the Andromeda Strain
2008
Director
A behind the scenes look at the background and making of the 2008 TV mini-series

Fallen
2006
Director, Executive Producer
For high schooler Aaron Corbett, turning 18 means becoming not just a man but a nephilim, too -- half human, half angel, with supernatural abilities.

Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor
2003
Director
On the glorious battlefields of the American Revolution, two great generals distinguished themselves; George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Washingto...

Young Arthur
2002
Director
Unaired TV movie pilot for a TV series on the childhood of King Arthur.

A Glimpse of Hell
2001
Director
A Navy officer tries to set the record straight after the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.

Sole Survivor
2000
Director
A reporter loses his wife and daughter to a plane crash, but when the sole survivor appears, the reporter realizes that it wasn't a mere accident, but...

Hard Rain
1998
Director
An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.

Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'
1993
as Self
Documentary about the challenging making of the sci-fi film "The Abyss" , with commentary by various actors and crew, outtakes and behind-the-scenes f...

A Far Off Place
1993
Director
Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous Afri...

Far and Away
1992
Director of Photography
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh wi...

Backdraft
1991
Director of Photography
Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torchi...

Arachnophobia
1990
Director of Photography
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider...

Always
1989
Director of Photography
The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.

The Abyss
1989
Director of Photography
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself o...

Torch Song Trilogy
1988
Director of Photography
Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.

Zelly & Me
1988
Director of Photography
A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out t...

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains
1987
Director of Photography
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

The Wolf at the Door
1986
Director of Photography
Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inab...
Det begyndte med Mathilde
1978
Cinematography
A dramatized account of Denmark's first women's rights activist, Mathilde Fibiger. Based on letters and diaries, it depicts her life and views from th...

Elvis! Elvis!
1976
Director of Photography
The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.

Copper
1976
Director of Photography
After a stay in a sanatorium due to violent behavior during an arrest, Detective Karl Jørgensen is transferred to the fraud department. Here, Karl dis...

På flykt undan mina landsmän
1976
Director of Photography
"On the Run from my Fellow Countrymen" - About Bertolt Brecht as a refugee in Sweden. When war seemed imminent in April 1939, Brecht moved to Stockhol...

Only the Truth
1975
Director of Photography
A woman, Ilse Brehmer, finds the body of a dead man, a journalist. He has been murdered, and later when the body turns up in the harbor, the woman den...

Around the World with Fanny Hill
1974
Director of Photography
In Stockholm, Fanny Hill is tired of being a housewife, and she suspects that her husband Roger, a TV-commercial director who's surrounded by starlets...

Bedside Highway
1972
Director of Photography
In this Danish sex comedy, precisely opposite goals lead a young official of the Department of Roads and Traffic and all the women of the local villag...

Z.P.G.
1972
Additional Photography
In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with thei...

Chinese Ping-Pong
1972
Director of Photography
An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players' exhibition ...

Why Do They Do It?
1971
Director of Photography
"Why Do They Do It ?" preached that it was decent to be a sexual creature. A panel discussion in the Student Association as a kind of frame, you watch...

Tintomara
1970
Director of Photography
In March 1792 the Swedish King Gustav III is murdered at a masked ball. Five young people are involved in the murder story, including Tintomara, a 17 ...

Daddy, Darling
1970
Director of Photography
A young Danish girl seduces everything in sight after daddy refuses her naughty come-ons. She'll have a lesbian affair with her teacher, pretend that ...

Famous Five Get in Trouble
1970
Director of Photography
The four kids, Julian, Dick, Georgina and Anne plus the dog Tim go on a bike-trip without any grownups around, but they are soon followed by a another...

Five and the Spies
1969
Cinematography
The children Julian, Dick and Anne spends a summer holiday at the Kirrin Farm, where there cousin Georgina lives with her dog Tim, and her parents. Th...

Capriccio
1968
Director of Photography
Copenhagen traffic policeman Aage Dahl directs traffic to the accompaniment of Tchaikovsky's 'Capriccio Italien'.
De forsvundne breve
1967
Cinematography
Om ti minutter
1966
Cinematography

Søskende
1966
Director of Photography
Three siblings see each other again after many years at their father's deathbed. The eldest, Arthur, a lawyer, has everything under control – or so it...
Grænseland
1965
Camera Operator