Significant Collaborations
De Palma has collaborated with many of the same actors and crew members throughout his career. Robert De Niro starred in The Wedding Party, Greetings, and Hi, Mom!. Nancy Allen had acting roles in Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out. Other actors that De Palma has worked with on more than one occasion include Jennifer Salt (The Wedding Party, Hi, Mom!, and Sisters), Charles Durning (Hi, Mom!, Sisters, and The Fury), Al Pacino (Scarface and Carlito's Way), John Lithgow (Obsession, Blow Out and Raising Cain), Sean Penn (Casualties of War and Carlito's Way), Amy Irving (Carrie, The Fury and Casualties of War (uncredited voice-over)), and John Travolta (Carrie, Blow Out).
De Palma has consistently worked with a group of screenwriters, cinematographers, editors and composers throughout his career. Screenwriter David Koepp worked with him on Carlito's Way, Mission: Impossible, and Snake Eyes. He commonly works with cinematographers Vilmos Zsigmond (Obsession, Blow Out, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Black Dahlia) and Stephen H. Burum (Body Double, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Raising Cain, Carlito's Way, Mission: Impossible, Snake Eyes, Mission to Mars). De Palma has also worked with composers Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain), Ennio Morricone (The Untouchables, Casualties of War, and Mission to Mars) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (Snake Eyes, Femme Fatale). Furthermore, De Palma has used editors Bill Pankow (Body Double, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Carlito's Way, Snake Eyes, The Black Dahlia, Redacted) and Paul Hirsch (Phantom of the Paradise, Carrie, Raising Cain, Mission to Mars).
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