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Jon Joffin

South African-Canadian cinematographer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ62096950 ↗
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Jon Joffin (born June 13, 1963) is a South African film and television cinematographer, who has worked in both the Canadian and American film and television industries.

Born in Johannesburg, he moved with his family to Canada in childhood.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1963—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963-06-13. The account is most persuasive where Joffin, South and African-Canadian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as south African-Canadian cinematographer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q62096950. VIAF identifies the subject as 164353807. The Library of Congress control number is no2005105630. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1963.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jon Joffin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.