Reynaldo Villalobos- Biography

Also Credited As:

Rey Villalobos

About Reynaldo Villalobos

Villalobos has lent his distinctive visual style--a semi-documentary look combined with diffuse, impressionistic, sometimes murky, lighting--to uniquely American-themed films: "Risky Business" (1983) "9 to 5" (1980) and "Punchline" (1988).

Education

El Camino College, Torrance , California

Dominican College, San Rafael , California

Career Milestones

After college enlisted in the Navy where he worked as a photographer

Debut as director for TV ("Tour of Duty", "Wise Guy" and "The Hitchhiker")

Worked as first assitant cameraman for eight years

1970

Employed as studio laborer (painting and hauling equipment), before working as assistant cameraman on "The Young Lawyers"

1980

First film as director of photography, "Urban Cowboy"