Glen MacPherson, CSC/ASC (born October 29, 1957) is a Canadian cinematographer based in Los Angeles. MacPherson's cinematography career dates to the mid-1980s. MacPherson is fluent in English and French.

MacPherson started work as a focus puller for the 1981 movie Gas. In 1983 MacPherson made his debut as a cinematographer with the movie A 20th Century Chocolate Cake, directed by Lois Siegel. For the remainder of the 1980s, MacPherson held down a variety of jobs, including camera assistant, camera operator and a director of photography.

He received a Genie Award nomination for Best Cinematography at the 19th Genie Awards in 1999 for his work on the film Regeneration.^[1] He received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Photography in a Dramatic Program or Series at the 12th Gemini Awards in 1998 for Captains Courageous,^[2] and won the award at the 25th Gemini Awards in 2010 for Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story.^[3]

Filmography

Films

Television

TV series

• The Hitchhiker (1989)
• CBC's Magic Hour (1989)
• Conspiracy of Silence (1991)
• Sliders (1995)
• Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story (2010)
• Thai Cave Rescue (2022)

TV movies

• Betrayal of Silence (1989)
• Clarence (1990)
• Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story (1991)
• Deadly Surveillance (1991)
• Miles from Nowhere (1992)
• Lip Gloss (1993)
• Dying to Remember (1993)
• The Substitute (1993)
• The Sea Wolf (1993)
• Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993)
• The Amy Fisher Story (1993)
• Flinch (1994)
• Voices from Within (1994)
• For the Love of Aaron (1994)
• Shock Treatment (1995)
• Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
• Johnny's Girl (1995)
• Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995)
• Toe Tags (1996)
• Calm at Sunset (1996)
• Doctor Who (1996)
• Captains Courageous (1996)
• Max Q (1998)
• Silver Lake (2004)
• Alaska (2004)