Michael Ballhaus was born in 1935 and is one of the best-known representatives of his trade. Ballhaus spent forty years working behind the camera and has made eighty movie films. He has put the visions of Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, Francis Ford Coppola, Peter Lilienthal and Robert Redford into film images. Stars like Michelle Pfeiffer, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver and Melanie Griffith have been in front of his camera.