Mark Pellington

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

Life and career

Pellington was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1984, which he attended on an athletic scholarship (played attack on the lacrosse team). 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

• "Stay Right Here" - Deep 6 (1986)^[3]
• "What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)" - Information Society (1988)^[4]
• "Repetition" - Information Society (1989)^[4]
• "Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)" - Crystal Waters (1991)^[5]
• "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss" - P.M. Dawn (1991)^[6]
• "Television, the Drug of the Nation" - The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (1991)
• "Shut 'em Down" - Public Enemy (1992)
• "Jeremy" - Pearl Jam (1992)
• "One" - U2 (1992) - buffalo version
• "Black Lodge" - Anthrax (1993)
• "Rooster" - Alice in Chains (1993)
• "Beautiful Girl" - INXS (1993)
• "Independent" - Sacred Reich (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 (2004)
• "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 (2009)
• "Syndicate" - The Fray (2010)
• "Laredo" - Band of Horses (2010)
• "Care" - Kid Rock (2011)
• "Hold My Hand" - Michael Jackson (2010)
• "Skyscraper" - Demi Lovato (2011)
• "I Won't Give Up" - Jason Mraz (2012)

Director filmography

• Punch and Judy Get Divorced (1992)
• United States of Poetry (1995)
• Homicide: Life on the Street (1997)
• 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)
• Back (TV) 2009
• I Melt with You (2011)
• Red Widow (TV) (2012)
• Anatomy of Violence (TV) (2013)
• Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives(TV) 2012
• Chelsea Wolfe(2013)

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

External links

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