Jack Cardiff
John George James Gran
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Emerging from a family of music-hall performers in Great Yarmouth, he entered the film world as a child actor before moving behind the camera at fifteen, eventually qualifying as a camera operator in 1935. His breakthrough came as a Technicolor second-unit operator on Powell and Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), leading to full cinematographer duties on A Matter of Life and…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
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Filmography
Also behind the camera
The films and series they directed.