Biography
Adam Greenberg (also credited as אדם גרינברג) was an Israeli-American cinematographer. Born in Kraków, Poland, he was raised in Tel Aviv and began his career as a film lab technician before working as a newsreel cameraman and shooting documentaries and features in Israel from the early 1960s.
He shot his first American feature, The Big Red One (1980), in Israel and later emigrated to the United States. Greenberg became a member of the American Society of Cinematographers in 1990. His Hollywood credits include The Terminator (1984), Ghost (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sister Act (1992), Rush Hour (1998) and Snakes on a Plane (2006). He received an Academy Award nomination for best cinematography for Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Greenberg died in Los Angeles on 30 October 2025.
