Jack Cardiff

JACK CARDIFF OBE d2009. British cinematographer, film and television director and photographer. His career spanned the development of cinema, from silent film through early experiments in Technicolor, to filmmaking more than half a century later. He is best known for his influential color cinematography for directors including ; Powell and Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death / Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes) // John Huston (The African Queen) and Alfred Hitchcock (Under Capricorn). He is also known for his work as a director in critically acclaimed film Sons and Lovers (1960) for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. In 2000, he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and in 2001 he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award for his contribution to the cinema. He died in Ely aged 94 on April 22nd 2009