Former assistant to Nicolas Roeg who has shot such first-rate, visually challenging films as John Boorman's "Excalibur" (1981) and Roeg's "Eureka" (1983).
Milestones
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1946 Began career as clapper boy at Alexander Korda's Denham Studios in England
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1965 First film credit, "Code 7, Victim 5" (camera operator)
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1968 First credit as director of photography, "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"
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Spent three years as a Technicolor technician in the camera department at that studio
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Worked as focus puller on David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia"