Mark Pellington

Mark Pellington
Born	March 17, 1962 (1962-03-17) (age 49) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1990–present

Mark Pellington (born March 17, 1962) is an American film director.

Life and career

Pellington was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He directed The Mothman Prophecies, a 2002 film starring Richard Gere dealing with mysterious deaths^[1] foretold by a strange red-eyed flying creature, Mothman, as well as Arlington Road in 1999 starring Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges. Pellington's father, Bill was a football player with the Baltimore Colts for 12 seasons. He died of complications from Alzheimer's in 1994.

Pellington has also worked with such musical artists as Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, U2, Demi Lovato, and Bruce Springsteen. He has also made cameo appearances in The Mothman Prophecies, Almost Famous, and Jerry Maguire. He directed the landmark mini-series The United States of Poetry for PBS in 1995. It won the INPUT (International Public Television) Award in 1996. In January 2010, he was named to direct The Orphanage remake, which is produced by Guillermo Del Toro.^[2]

Pellington's wife, Jennifer Barrett Pellington, died in 2004 at the age of 42. They had one child.

Music video filmography

• "Shut 'Em Down" - Public Enemy (1992)
• "Jeremy" - Pearl Jam (1992)
• "One" - U2 (1992)
• "Black Lodge" - Anthrax (1993)
• "Rooster" - Alice in Chains (1993)
• "Beautiful Girl" - INXS (1993)
• "Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe" - Whale (1994)
• "Tomorrow" - Silverchair (1995)
• "'74 - '75" - The Connells (1995)
• "Ladykillers" - Lush (1996)
• "We're in This Together" - Nine Inch Nails (1999)
• "Lonesome Day" - Bruce Springsteen (2002)
• "Do You Realize??" - The Flaming Lips (2002) - UK version
• "Gravedigger" - Dave Matthews (2003)
• "Best of You" - Foo Fighters (2005)
• "Falling By the Way Side" - People in Planes (2005)
• "Everybody's Changing" - Keane (2005)
• "How To Save a Life" - The Fray (2006)
• "Soulmate" - Natasha Bedingfield (2007)
• "Girls In Their Summer Clothes (Winter Mix)" - Bruce Springsteen (2007)
• "Henry Poole Is Here" - Ron Irizarry (2008)
• "One Time We Lived" (version 2) - Moby
• "Syndicate" - The Fray (2010)
• " "Laredo" - Band of Horses (2010)
• "Hold My Hand" - Michael Jackson (2010)
• "Skyscraper" - Demi Lovato (2011)

Director filmography

• Homicide: Life on the Street (1997)
• Punch and Judy Get Divorced (1992)
• United States of Poetry (1995)
• Going All the Way (1997)
• Destination Anywhere (1997)
• Pearl Jam: Single Video Theory (1998)
• Arlington Road (1999)
• [Inside Time and Memory (2000)
• The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
• A Place We Call Earth--short (2002)
• Cold Case (2003-2007) (7 episodes)
• U23D (2008)
• Henry Poole is Here (2008)
• I Melt With You (2011)
• The Orphanage (2011)

Producer filmography

• No Maps for These Territories (2000)
• Day by Day: A Director's Journey Part II (2003)
• Time Well Spent (2004) (executive producer)
• Cold Case (2006) (consulting producer) (77 episodes)
• The Man from Earth (2006) (post-production)

References

1. ^ Mothman Death List / The Mothman Curse
2. ^ "The Orphanage Remake Finds Its Director". http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/35171/the-orphanage-remake-finds-its-director. 

External links

• Mark Pellington at the Internet Movie Database
• Mark Pellington's Guest DJ Set on KCRW KCRW Guest DJ Project

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Name	Pellington, Mark
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Date of birth	March 17, 1962
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