![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Cinematographer Born: July 7, 1942 in London, England, UK Biography:Acclaimed British cinematographer Anthony Richmond's résumé not only spans more than half a century, but boasts multiple collaborations with a veritable who's-who of five-star international filmmakers and some of the most intelligently crafted features to have emerged from the U.S. and Britain in the post-'60s cinematic Zeitgeist.
A self-made professional, the London-born Richmond entered the film world at the tender age of 15, with an entry-level position as messenger boy at Associated British Cinemas. He then climbed up from the bottom of the ranks, transferring to Pathé-News with a promotion to the camera department, first as a clapper boy and later -- on 1968's Casino Royale -- as a focus puller. In 1964, Richmond met iconoclast Nicolas Roeg (then a cameraman), thus beginning a lengthy friendship that would result in a series of astonishing professional collaborations and some of the finest work... Full Biography
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