Did you know there is a long history of filmmaking in the Berkshires? Many critically acclaimed and blockbuster films are on the growing list of movies shot here or crewed by Berkshire residents…

Movies filmed in the Berkshires:

Alice’s Restaurant, starring Arlo Guthrie, filmed in Great Barrington and Housatonic Pretty Poison, starring Anthony Perkins, filmed in Great Barrington and North Adams
Cider House Rules, starring Tobey Maguire, filmed in Lenox
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, starring Elizabeth Taylor, filmed in Northhampton
A Change of Seasons, starring Shirley MacLaine, filmed in Williamstown
Lethal Innocence, starring David Strathairn, filmed in Lee
Before and After, starring Meryl Streep, filmed in multiple Berkshire towns
Into My Heart, starring Rob Morrow, filmed in the Berkhires
Wilbur Falls, starring Danny Aiello, filmed in Lenox
Dinner and a Movie, starring Marianne Hagan, filmed in multiple Berkshire towns
The Human Stain, starring Anthony Hopkins, filmed in multiple Berkshire towns
The Secret Village, starring Jonathan Bennett and Ali Faulkner, filmed in Lee, Lenox, and Stockbridge
The River (short), starring Lauren Ambrose, filmed in Great Barrington and Monterey 
I’m Coming Over (short), starring Lauren Ambrose and Mike Birbiglia, filmed in southern Berkshires
Worlds We Created (short), filmed in Sheffield and Stockbridge Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, starring Gregory Crewdson, filmed in Pittsfield and at MASS MoCA

Movies & TV Shows Worked On By Berkshire Residents:
Featured credits – click on their name to learn more.

Actors

Elizabeth Banks (born & raised, Pittsfield, MA)
Big Breaks (short), Catch Me If You Can, Just a Little Heart Attack (short), Man on a Ledge, Our Idiot Brother, People Like Us, Role Models, Seabiscuit, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Details, The Hunger Games, The Next Three Days, The Uninvited, W, What to Expect When You’re Expecting, Zack and Miri Make A Porno

Jayne Atkinson (current resident)
House of Cards, 24 (TV – Season 6), Free Willy, Free Willy 2, Gossip Girl (TV – Season 4), Law and Order (TV), Criminal Minds (TV)

Karen Allen (current resident)
Animal House, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Starman, The Perfect Storm

Lauren Ambrose (current resident)
Can’t Hardly Wait, Party of Five (TV), Psycho Beach Party, Six Feet Under (TV), Wanderlust, Where the Wild Things Are 

Michael Gill (current resident)
House of Cards, Guiding Light, Law & Order: Criminal Intent (TV – 1 episode), All My Children (TV – 2 episodes)

Directors

Arthur Penn (lived in Stockbridge, MA)
Bonnie and Clyde, Dead of Winter, Flesh and Blood, Night Movies, The Miracle Worker, The Missouri Breaks

Ben Hillman (current resident)
Who’s Calling? (video short), Evolution Made Us All (video short), Little Red Jiving Hood (short)

Cynthia Wade (current resident)
Mondays at Racine (documentary), Sesame Street: Growing Hope Against Hunger (TV episode), Freeheld (documentary), Shelter Dogs (documentary)

Doug Trumbull (current resident)
Back to the Future (The Ride at Universal Studios), Brainstorm, Silent Running

Holly Hardman (current resident)
Besotted, Seaschell Beach (short)

Kent Jones (born & raised, Pittsfield, MA)
American Masters: A Letter to Elia (TV series documentary), Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (documentary), Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty; Director of Programming, New York Film Festival

Production Designers/Art Department

Carl Sprague (current resident)
Amistad, Mona Lisa Smile, Moonrise Kingdom, Peace, Love and Misunderstanding, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Social Network

Producers

Mark Rhodes (current resident)
The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman (short), The Book of Pooh (TV), The Simpsons (Ride)

Nan Bernstein (current resident)
Friday Night Lights, Parenthood, Prime Suspect

Writers

Channing Gibson (current resident)
Eight is Enough (TV), Family (TV), L.A. Law (TV), Lethal Weapon, Murder One (TV – Creator), NYPD Blue (TV), Walking Tall

Joe Cacaci (founder, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Great Barrington, MA)
L.A. Law (TV – 1 episode), QuickBites (TV – 1 episode), The Bachelor’s Baby (TV Movie), The Trials of Rosie O’Neill 

John Orloff (upstate New York)
A Mighty Heart, Anonymous, Band of Brothers (TV), Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole

Kent Jones (born & raised, Pittsfield, MA)
American Masters: A Letter to Elia (TV series documentary), Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (documentary), Lady by the Sea: The Statue of Liberty, My Voyage to Italy;
Director of Programming, New York Film Festival

Stephen Glantz (current resident)
Babij Jar, The Last Train, Wunderkinder 

Visual Effects Craftsmen

Ben Hillman (current resident)
She Hate Me – Director of Animation 

Eugene Mamut (current resident)
Ghost Dad – cameraman
Predator – camouflage co-developer 
Predator2 – camouflage effects superviser

Diane Pearlman (current resident)
Die Hard: With A Vengeance – VFX producer
Eraser – miniature VFX executive producer
Event Horizon – VFX producer
Judge Dredd – VFX producer
She Hate Me – animation and visual effects producer

Doug Trumbull (current resident)
2001: A Space Odyssey – special photographic effects supervisor
Bladerunner – special photographic effects supervisor
Close Encounters of the Third Kind – special photographic effects
Star Trek: The Motion Picture – special photographic effects director
The Tree of Life – visual effects consultant

Jeff Diamond (current resident)
Clear and Present Danger – visual effects producer
Honey I Shrunk the Audience (short) – digital effects
Stargate – digital visual effects producer
What Dreams May Come – business affairs

John Nugent (current resident, Owner, Sandbox F/X, Pittsfield, MA)
Lord of the Rings:  The Two Towers – 2D supervisor
Lord of the Rings:  Fellowship of the Ring – 2D supervisor
Lord of the Rings:  The Return of the King – VFX supervisor
Terminator 3:  Rise of the Machines – VFX supervisor
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – VFX supervisor
Jumper – VFX supervisor
Fantastic Four:  Rise of the Silver Surfer – VFX supervisor
Night at the Museum – VFX supervisor
The Celestine Prophecy – VFX supervisor

Jeff KleiserDiana Walczak (current residents, Owners Synthespian Studios Williamstown, MA)
Amazing Adventures of Spiderman (short)- animation director
Clear and Present Danger – computer animation supervisor
Fantastic Four – executive producer
Honey I Blew Up the Kids – digital effects supervisor
Judge Dredd – computer animation supervisor
Ra.One – visual effects supervisor
Stargate – executive producer
X-Men –creative advisor
X-Men: The Last Stand – VFX Supervisor 

Robert O’Haver (current resident)
Disney’s Dinosour – production supervisor
Last of the Dogmen – VFX/digital effects Producer
Stargate – line producer

Mass.Illusion (visual effects company in Lenox, MA from 1994-1998)
Die Hard with a Vengeance, Eraser, Event Horizon, Evita, Judge Dredd,Shadow Conspiracy, Starship Troopers, The Matrix, What Dreams May Come
 

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