Ernest Roscoe Dickerson A.S.C. (usually credited as Ernest R. Dickerson or Ernest Dickerson, born June 25, 1951) is an American film and television director and cinematographer. He directed generally urban films sometimes with supernatural story like Juice, Tales from the Crypt Presents Demon Knight, Bones and Never Die Alone. He is known for his frequent collaborations with Spike Lee.

Filmography

• 2026V/H/S/Mixtape — Director, Writer
• 2025Den of Vampires
• Horror's Greatest — Self - Director, Demon Knight
• Parish — Director
• Bosch: Legacy — Director
• DMZ — Director
• Raised by Wolves — Director
• Seven Seconds — Director
• The Purge — Director
• Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. — Director
• 2017Double Play — Director
• The Deuce — Director
• Blindspot — Director
• Bosch — Director
• The Man in the High Castle — Director
• State of Affairs — Director
• Tyrant — Director
• House of Cards — Director
• Low Winter Sun — Director
• Sleepy Hollow — Director
• Under the Dome — Director
• Revolution — Director
• 2011Last Man Standing — Director
• Once Upon a Time — Director
• The Cape — Director
• The Walking Dead — Director
• Treme — Director
• 2009Something with Bite — Director
• Stargate Universe — Director
• The Vampire Diaries — Director
• Fear Itself — Director
• In Plain Sight — Director
• 2008Miracle at St. Anna — Second Unit Director, Second Unit Director of Photography
• Burn Notice — Director
• Tell Me You Love Me — Director
• Dexter — Director
• Eureka — Director
• 2006For One Night — Director
• Heroes — Director
• The Evidence — Director
• 2006The V Word — Director
• Criminal Minds — Director
• Invasion — Director
• Masters of Horror — Director
• Medium — Director
• Miracle's Boys — Director
• Weeds — Director
• 2004Never Die Alone — Director
• The 4400 — Director
• The L Word — Director
• 2003Good Fences — Director
• 2002Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie — Director
• CSI: Miami — Director
• 2002Monday Night Mayhem — Director
• 2002Our America — Director of Photography
• The Wire — Director
• 2001Bones — Director
• Crossing Jordan — Director
• Night Visions — Director
• 1999Futuresport — Director
• 1999Strange Justice — Director
• Third Watch — Director
• 1998Ambushed — Director
• 1998Blind Faith — Director
• 1996Bulletproof — Director
• 1995Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight — Director
• ER — Director
• 1994Surviving the Game — Director
• 1993Stephen King's Golden Tales — Director of Photography
• 1992Cousin Bobby — Director of Photography, Camera Operator
• 1992Juice — Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1992Malcolm X — Director of Photography
• 1991Jungle Fever — Director of Photography
• 1991Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll — Director of Photography
• 1990Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story — Director of Photography
• 1990Def by Temptation — Director of Photography
• Law & Order — Director, Director of Photography
• 1990Mo' Better Blues — Director of Photography
• 1990Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella — Director
• 1990Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella — Director
• 1989Do the Right Thing — Director of Photography
• 1989Fright House — Director of Photography
• 1988School Daze — Director of Photography
• 1988The Laser Man — Director of Photography
• 1987Eddie Murphy Raw — Director of Photography
• 1987Enemy Territory — Director of Photography
• 1987Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper — Additional Camera
• 1986Almacita, Soul of Desolato — Director of Photography
• 1986She's Gotta Have It — Dog 8, Director of Photography
• 1986Vampires — Director of Photography
• 1985Krush Groove — Director of Photography
• 1984Desiree — Director of Photography
• Tales from the Darkside — Director of Photography
• 1984The Brother from Another Planet — Director of Photography
• 1983Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads — Director of Photography
• Black Diamond — Director, Executive Producer
• Morris Stokes — Director
• Revisiting The Learning Tree

Appearances as themselves (27)

• 2025In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999 — Self
• Hollywood Black — Self
• 100 Years of Warner Bros. — Self
• Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World — Self
• 2023Love and Hate — Self
• The 101 Scariest Horror Movie Moments of All Time — Self
• 2020Tales of the Uncanny — Self
• 2020The Horror Crowd — Self
• 2019Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror — Self
• Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us' — Self
• Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self
• 2014That Guy Dick Miller — Self
• 2011Produce Your Own Damn Movie! — Self
• 2010One Night in Vegas — Self
• 2009Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later — Self
• 2007Full Metal Jacket: Between Good and Evil — Self
• 2007Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' — Self
• 2007Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 — Self
• 2007The Visions of Stanley Kubrick — Self
• 2007View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' — Self
• 2006Hitchcocked! — Self
• 2005Ben-Hur: The Epic That Changed Cinema — Self
• 2005By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' — Self
• 2002Bones: Urban Gothic — Self
• 1992Visions of Light — Self
• 1989Making 'Do the Right Thing' — Self
• Diggin’ Up "Bones" — Self