David Watkin
Born: 1925-03-23 in Margate, Kent, England, UK
Died: 2008-02-19
Known For: Camera
Biography
David Watkin BSC (23 March 1925 – 19 February 2008) was an English cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source. He worked with such film directors as Richard Lester, Peter Brook, Tony Richardson, Mike Nichols, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli, Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollack. In 1985, Watkin won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Out of Africa. He received lifetime achievement awards in 2004 from the British Society of Cinematographers and the cinematographic-centric Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland. In Chariots of Fire, he "helped create one of the most memorable images of 1980s cinema: the opening sequence in which a huddle of young male athletes pounds along the water's edge on a beach" to the film's theme music by Vangelis. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Watkin (cinematographer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2007
- THE BEATLES in HELP! as Self
2001
- All Forgotten ... (Director of Photography)
- One Continuous Take: Kay Mander's Life in Film as Himself
1999
- Gloria ... (Director of Photography)
- Tea with Mussolini ... (Director of Photography)
1997
- Night Falls on Manhattan ... (Director of Photography)
- Critical Care ... (Director of Photography)
- Obsession ... (Director of Photography)
1994
- Milk Money ... (Director of Photography)
- It Is Now Our Time: Peter Sellars’ The Merchant of Venice ... (Cinematography)
1993
- This Boy's Life ... (Director of Photography)
- Bopha! ... (Director of Photography)
1992
- Used People ... (Director of Photography)
1991
- The Object of Beauty ... (Director of Photography)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez ... (Director of Photography)
1990
- Memphis Belle ... (Director of Photography)
- Hamlet ... (Director of Photography)
1989
- Murder on the Moon ... (Director of Photography)
1988
- The Good Mother ... (Director of Photography)
- Masquerade ... (Director of Photography)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth ... (Director of Photography)
- Last Rites ... (Director of Photography)
1987
- Moonstruck ... (Director of Photography)
1986
- Sky Bandits ... (Director of Photography)
1985
- Out of Africa ... (Director of Photography)
- Return to Oz ... (Director of Photography)
- White Nights ... (Director of Photography)
1984
- Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes ... (Additional Photography)
- The Hotel New Hampshire ... (Director of Photography)
1983
- Yentl ... (Director of Photography)
1981
- Chariots of Fire ... (Director of Photography)
- Endless Love ... (Director of Photography)
- La Cenerentola ... (Director of Photography)
1979
- Cuba ... (Director of Photography)
- Hanover Street ... (Director of Photography)
- That Summer! ... (Director of Photography)
1977
- Jesus of Nazareth ... (Director of Photography)
- Joseph Andrews ... (Director of Photography)
1976
- Robin and Marian ... (Director of Photography)
- To the Devil a Daughter ... (Director of Photography)
1975
- Mahogany ... (Director of Photography)
1974
- The Four Musketeers ... (Director of Photography)
1973
- The Three Musketeers ... (Director of Photography)
- The Homecoming ... (Director of Photography)
- A Delicate Balance ... (Director of Photography)
1971
- The Devils ... (Director of Photography)
- The Boy Friend ... (Director of Photography)
1970
- Catch-22 ... (Director of Photography)
1969
- The Bed Sitting Room ... (Director of Photography)
1968
- The Charge of the Light Brigade ... (Director of Photography)
- Red, White, and Zero ... (Director of Photography)
1967
- The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade ... (Director of Photography)
- How I Won the War ... (Director of Photography)
1966
- Mademoiselle ... (Director of Photography)
1965
- Help! ... (Director of Photography)
- The Knack... and How to Get It ... (Director of Photography)
1964
- Rhythm 'n' Greens ... (Cinematography)
1963
- The Six-Sided Triangle ... (Cinematography)
1962
- The Signal Engineers ... (Director of Photography)
- Robert Reid Reports on British Waterways ... (Cinematography)
- ...All That Mighty Heart... ... (Camera Operator)
1961
- The Travolators ... (Director of Photography)
1960
- Blue Pullman ... (Director of Photography)
- They Take the High Road ... (Director of Photography)
1959
- Diesel Trainride ... (Director of Photography)
- Groundwork for Progress ... (Cinematography)
- The Coasts of Clyde ... (Director of Photography)
- Care of St Christopher’s ... (Director of Photography)
1958
- A Desperate Case ... (Director of Photography)
- Under Night Streets ... (Director of Photography)
1957
- Lancashire Coast ... (Director of Photography)
- Holiday ... (Director of Photography)
- The England of Elizabeth ... (Director of Photography)
- Service for Southend ... (Camera Operator)
1956
- Men on the Mend ... (Director of Photography)
- The Long Night Haul ... (Director of Photography)