Dick Pope
Born: 1947-08-03 in Bromley, Kent, England
Died: 2024-10-22
Known For: Camera
Biography
Richard Campbell Pope (August 3, 1947 – October 21, 2024) was a British cinematographer, known for his work with director Mike Leigh. Born in Bromley, Richard Campbell Pope took an early interest in photography. He trained at the Pathé lab in London, and began his career in 1968 working as a camera operator on documentaries. He began working as a cinematographer on feature films in the 1980s. He began his collaboration with Mike Leigh in 1990's Life is Sweet, and continued to work with him for over thirty years, until Hard Truths (2024).
Filmography
2024
- Hard Truths ... (Director of Photography)
2022
- The Outfit ... (Director of Photography)
2020
- Supernova ... (Director of Photography)
2019
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind ... (Director of Photography)
- Motherless Brooklyn ... (Director of Photography)
2018
- Peterloo ... (Director of Photography)
2017
- Angelica ... (Director of Photography)
2015
- Legend ... (Director of Photography)
2014
- Mr. Turner ... (Director of Photography)
- Cuban Fury ... (Director of Photography)
- The One and Only Mike Leigh as Self
2012
- Side by Side as Self
- Thin Ice ... (Director of Photography)
- Bernie ... (Director of Photography)
- A Running Jump ... (Director of Photography)
2010
- Another Year ... (Director of Photography)
- It's a Wonderful Afterlife ... (Director of Photography)
2008
- Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging ... (Director of Photography)
- Happy-Go-Lucky ... (Director of Photography)
- Me and Orson Welles ... (Director of Photography)
2007
- Honeydripper ... (Director of Photography)
2006
- The Illusionist ... (Director of Photography)
- Man of the Year ... (Director of Photography)
2005
- Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band : Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 ... (Camera Operator)
- Friday Night Shirt ... (Director of Photography)
2004
- Vera Drake ... (Director of Photography)
2002
- Nicholas Nickleby ... (Director of Photography)
- All or Nothing ... (Director of Photography)
2001
- Thirteen Conversations About One Thing ... (Director of Photography)
2000
- The Way of the Gun ... (Director of Photography)
1999
- Topsy-Turvy ... (Director of Photography)
- The Debt Collector ... (Director of Photography)
1998
- Swept from the Sea ... (Director of Photography)
1997
- Career Girls ... (Camera Operator)
1996
- Secrets & Lies ... (Director of Photography)
- Nothing Personal ... (Director of Photography)
1995
- An Awfully Big Adventure ... (Director of Photography)
- The Great Kandinsky ... (Director of Photography)
1994
- The Air Up There ... (Director of Photography)
1993
- Naked ... (Camera Operator)
- The Blackheath Poisonings ... (Director of Photography)
1992
- A Sense of History ... (Director of Photography)
1991
- Life Is Sweet ... (Camera Operator)
1990
- The Reflecting Skin ... (Director of Photography)
1988
- The Fruit Machine ... (Director of Photography)
1987
- Coming Up Roses ... (Director of Photography)
- The Cure in Orange ... (Camera Operator)
1986
- The Girl in the Picture ... (Director of Photography)
1985
- The Women's Olamal: The Organisation of a Maasai Fertility Ceremony ... (Director of Photography)
1984
- Nineteen Eighty-Four ... (Camera Operator)
1983
- Alan Bush: A Life ... (Director of Photography)
1981
- Inseminoid ... (Camera Operator)
1980
- Rude Boy ... (Camera Operator)
- Punk and Its Aftershocks ... (Director of Photography)
- Women in Rock ... (Director of Photography)
1973
- A Bigger Splash ... (Camera Operator)
1969
- A Promise of Bed ... (Camera Operator)
1968
- Loving Feeling ... (Clapper Loader)